8100-0 FIMOair Basic - Air Drying Modelling Clay, 500g - White (Pack of 1)

Perfect for big and small projects. Can take a while to dry especially if your items are big but once dry they are incredibly strong. Very easy to sand down and smooth out and the packet is resealable aswell

As a first timer working with clay of any kind, I wanted to make name tags for Christmas presents. Slightly wetting my fingers on a damp sponge before rolling the clay made it super easy to work with. Running a wet finger along the edges smoothed them out from the cookie cutter. Used a very cheap alpha stamp and then an acrylic gold pen when dry. Chuffed with the results! Flipped over after 24 hrs to dry on the other side. Totally dry after 48 hrs. Stored in a zip loc bag in between uses. One pack did loads ... just ordered another pack!

Does the job!

good value for money, easy to use, if not using it all is fine if covered with cling film.

Sooo pleased with this product, it feels and acts like normal clay when you’re working with it. It’s easy to shape in itself and to shape around a wire frame as I wanted to do with my reindeer antlers. It dries hard, like normal clay so you can refine your shape by carving or filing - I used an emery board because I didn’t have anything else to hand. I’ve been using Hobbycraft Superlight Air Drying Clay, which has a foamy texture that doesn’t actually mold easily and doesn’t dry hard, it retains the foamy feel. It can’t be carved or filed once hard, what you make is what you get. This Fimo clay is unbelievably better. It is heavier than the Hobbycraft clay, and I think it might well shatter if dropped once hard, but it’s clay, proper clay, and it’s great. It’s also possible to glaze, paint or even colour the clay with felt tip pens. I think the Hobbycraft clay would resist this. I needed it for antlers on a Rudolf and although my modelling skills are far from great, I got the result I was looking for. I would heartily recommend this clay.

Perfect for making baby hand/foot prints

We bought this, some of the flesh-coloured air-dry clay and a pack of the coloured oven-dry clay from Fimo. I have to say I was more impressed by the oven-dry clay than the air-dry, but I will admit that for really young kids, 3-5, the oven-dry clay may be a bit too messy. This clay comes in a large tablet. The pack it comes in isn't perfectlty air-tight once opened, which makes the clay slowly dry out, so you need to either work with it soon after opening, or put it into another air-tight zip-lok bag. Once opened, the clay itself is a lot drier than other clays, and dries out quickly. It's also not so great at small things, so I'd say the smallest you could reasonably make would be about the size of a 5p. Smaller than that, and it's too brittle after drying. Contrast that with the oven-dry stuff which sets hard as a rock even if it's pea-sized or smaller! While working with the clay, you have to be fast. It dries out incredibly quickly. I'd say if you haven't got your piece into shape within about 10 minutes, you'll find the clay starts to get brittle and won't stick to itself any more. You can try to moisten it, but that had mixed results for me. I found that once it had started to dry, even joints that were made with moistened clay were weak and broke soon after the piece had finished drying. I needed to use a lot of UHU glue to stick things back together. While working with the clay you can feel when it's starting to dry out, and you can see the wrinkles starting to form on the surface which gives you warning that time is running out. So I wouldn't use this for any serious work, it's just for fun play with the kids. Once dried, the surface is often full of wrinkles and holes. I found that I had to put a "topcoat" of a "polyfilla wash" to fill in the cracks and prepare the surface for painting. Again, that's only if you're trying to make something nice. If it's just the kids mucking about, you can just leave it as it comes and get the little ones to have at it with the watercolour paints. The paint soaks right into the clay and it's dry in minutes. It's great clay for little kids, so long as there's an adult to hand out the clay and ensure the main block is kept wrapped up. It's cheap and fun to work with. In general, so long as you're doing bigger things, it works really well, and if you're not overly fussed about the output being worthy of the Tate Modern, then it can make some nice-looking stuff. It also cleans up quite easily since it turns to dust pretty quickly. a hoover and a damp cloth are all that's needed to wipe away any trace of the messy play.

I tried this clay for the first time to do my projects and so far it's the best I have used, easy to use soft, minimal effort to roll it and make molds for my latex projects as shown in the pictures, used another well known brand and found this one better to work with, bought another pack already, stored what was left and it's still soft. Top marks!

AS CRIANÇAS AMARAM.

Già preso diverse volte ,ottimo materiale ha la consistenza della creta , da la possibilità dí modellare correttamente oggetti complessi ,si asciuga al aria perde peso ma non modifica la forma ,resistente si può carteggiare e dipingere

Un material que me gusta mucho. Fácil para trabajar.

Die STAEDTLER FIMO air Modelliermasse ist sehr einfach zu verwenden und sofort gebrauchsfähig, da kein Brennen im Ofen notwendig ist. Das Material lässt sich gut formen und eignet sich sowohl für einfache Bastelarbeiten als auch für kreative Projekte. Die Konsistenz ist angenehm weich und gut modellierbar, trocknet an der Luft jedoch zuverlässig und wird danach stabil. Besonders praktisch ist das für Kinder oder Hobbybastler, da kein zusätzlicher Aufwand mit einem Ofen nötig ist. Insgesamt eine sehr praktische und vielseitige Modelliermasse für kreative Anwendungen.

Produit très facile d'utilisation, je recommande pour faire des bricolages avec les enfant