using WePAM paste to restore (or create!) figurines

poor Starlux elephant!.. it broke its right tusk!.. but thank to:



..we can restore it..



..with a pearl of paste, just model an other tusk..



..then, wet the remain of the missing tusk and the basis of the new one..




then, put the new tusk against the remain of the missing one..



..then, push little parts of paste, all around the remain of the missing tusk, with the rolling food pick..



..then, give the right shape to the tusk and leave it to dry!..

to restore reindeer antlers:

..and you can repare:

..horns..

..tails..

..legs..

..tuskes..



..tusk, tail and leg..

..and piece by piece, you can model your own figurine.. just have to wait 1 hour of drying time before adding a new piece..







..very easy to do of course (like in my so far childhood): snakes

Big thanks for this tutorial!!!
For sure this paste will end in my home some day, along with acrylic paints, modelling tools and some wire for strenght the internal fragile parts.

I'm interesting in know, how fragile is the final result? I remember that as a child I did a falconer with a gyrfalcon with Fimo, and finally the bird's body separated from the falconer's arm and both (spread) wings separated from the body too. I also did some birds at very small scale (a red-breasted goose and a saddle-billed stork) for put them in my mother's Betlehem portal, and finally both had broken legs...

Hi Pardofelis!..

 Well, if you glue each piece with fresh and wet paste well distributed (with just a food pick!) all around the dry previous piece, it will work, it will solid enough!.. even more than thin original Starlux pieces!..

  Of course, I have no actions in WePAM industry!..  but with this cheap paste, I saved many Starlux (and other!) figurines and I can buy very cheap broken others, to constitute herds, flocks and packs!..

  ..and no need any toxic glue or paste!(this paste is for little girls!).. my tools: my fingers like when I was a very little child at school! :)  food picks and a cutter to cut what I dont agree when it is dry..

  ..I never tried big scale figurines but I don't see why it wouldn't work even without any wire!..

 ..but one thing is good to know: during drying time, WePAM paste looses its water and a little volume, so you have to anticipate this,  and to model a little bigger piece than the one you want..

(sorry for my poor English, I miss words!)

One of the things this forum got me educated to, it was to admire people that is able of restoring figures, especially vintage rare ones. I was quite ceptic about having restored figures, it seemed not genuine enough to be considered a collectible. I was wrong, of course. Now I have a few restored figures and I was not the person who did it. A restored figure is surely much better than a figure missing entire parts. Thanks for your tutorial and I find it quite honourable that some figures are rescued and return back to its glory. :)

Oh, it's important to know that it looses volume! I want to made very detailed small figures (birds with sculpted feathers, fishes with scales and teeth, etc) so I will need more than fingers and toothpicks!
Well, time will say. First I will buy done figures that I still miss, and after I will look for the paste :)
P.S. your English is good. Better than mine probably :)

thanks Rogério and Pardofelis! :)

some other restorations of Starlux replicas with WePAm paste:





.. of course they have to be repainted!..

 first release "into the Wild":

How amazing, what a wonderful idea to bring these models back to life!!
I will have to try it next time something breaks, thank you very much for sharing this!

Thank you Bonnie! :)

Congratulations my friends it's this paste that I use for my figurines

realy? you did your beautiful deer and dholes with?

Caracal wrote:

realy? you did your beautiful deer and dholes with?

And much more, all my animal figurines, birds.

OK!

and another little herd from Starlux (except the girafe and the tiger on the right):

Wonderful figures, it's amazing how you can fix them like this!

Interesting restoration.

These animals deserve a chance to be in our showcases as part of our collections.

Thank you Bonnie and Fernando! :)

New life for so many new models, fantastic job!

Hello! This year we celebrated Epiphany, and despite the limitations it has been a wonderful wonderful day!
And for me the gift were not figures... but something even better!



Until now I only have had experience with SuperSculpey, that needs to be baken. WePam and Fimo Air doesn't need that! This is very useful for me because I can use to repair/custum figures that are already done, such as the wonderful examples that Caracal show us. I wonder that for very fine details (thin legs, beaks, horns, claws, even hairs) is best WePam than Fimo, is it?

Are both pastes better stored in the refrigerator?

What a wonderful gift and I'd be very interested to hear the answer to your questions!

So great that I saw this topic, as I missed it before