food : polymer clay

[Bill Gill]

This is really well done in 1:12 scale and I want to try to find more info on how it was done:
http://www.boredpanda.com/i-sculpt-miniaturized-food-replicas/

more at:
https://www.instagram.com/fairchildart_miniatures/

[Ray Dunakin]

It all looks so delicious! Especially that stew. I wish I could find a restaurant that makes good, fresh beef stew.

[Malachi Constant]

Bill --

There are loads of tutorials on youtube ... some quite crude ... but some way up there ... and certainly enough to get you going.

[finescalerr]

Dallas, you haven't posted for a couple of years. What's up? -- Russ

[Bill Gill]

Hi Dallas! Thanks, I've watched several good tutorial videos, but the coloring of the "food" at that site posted above seemed especially well done. Check out the related carved wooden food site posted in the adjacent thread. The potato chips there reminded me of your chips in an even smaller scale

[Malachi Constant]

Bill -- I did those chips using some air-dry colored clay that was so-so to work with ... I understand that the Sculpey type clays can be color-mixed by kneading ... and if you look carefully, there are some subtle tones to choose from ... then, of course, a little brush work with some appropriate tinting would really "bake the cake" (or whatever) ...

Russ -- See the Blue Note Room! 

[Bill Gill]

Dallas, I was given some basic, not very subtle, colors of FIMO clays (similar to Sculpey) and used them to make all the Mcintosh apples for the back of one of the pickup trucks, see apples and clay here:
http://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?topic=2511.15
There was no way I was going to try to paint all those tiny bits after making them so I kneaded a red and a pale green separately and then twisted and rolled them together to get the red/green look of those apples. The clay worked really well. The basic colors mixed very thoroughly.

Sculpey does come in very nice and subtle colors and I've seen a tutorial or two where the craftsperson first added something to the clay to help soften it which helped kneading thoroughly to mix the colors together (Might have been mineral oil). That also helped with smoothing out the surface of items being created. Later even more subtle effects were added with thin acrylic washes and glazes.