Friendly Plastic By JOHN DODS Fighting the clock with tooth and nail. Friendly Plastic comes packaged inthis very tiendly looking 13k pound container for $25. A 4.4-0unce cantainer also avaiable for 15, A piece ot Fenaly Paste nt sm, plabe sate, 1 remains workable for only 1 minus. 38 CINEMAGIC #33, ven Friendly Pastis poured ino hot water tums intoacay-ke,plable material 'n two weeks!” That’s when director! producer Fred Olen Ray was telling me he needed a disgusting rat-ike creature to appear in his 35mm feature Prison Ship. |would usually take that long just to do a detailed sculpture, so | need: ted all the help I could find to get the job done fast. Help came in the form of Friendly Plastic Friendly Plastic is a modeling material which is hard until heated in hot water (135°F/60°C); then it turns into a clay. like, pliable material. While the plastic Is soft, fingers and tools can be used to form itinto teeth, nails, or any shape that can be sculpted in the short time the material re mains workable—about 1'/ minutes. As Friendly Plastic cools, it hardens into a Practically indestructible solid. It is somewhat flexible and does not crack or break easily. It can be drilled and carved with tools, lused Friendly Plastic to make the teeth and nails for the deadly "Jager-rat.” This took minutes compared to the days | would typically need to make teeth of den: tal acrylic cast from latex molds of Sculpey tooth forms. I atteched the Friendly Plastic teeth directly to the model's foam-rubber mouth with Super Glue. Detailed sculptures are difficult to make because of the short time that the plastic remains workable; this can,