How to Make Your Own Worbla

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How to Make Your Own Worbla

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Hey Cosplayers, in todays apprenticeship on Forging with Thermoplastics, I'll be teaching you how to make your very own Worbla! No more Paying an arm and a leg, this stuff is even better than worbla, I call it PolyArmor!

Watch the Video

How to make your own Worbla - PolyArmor

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Begin this Tutorial by watching the video!

What You Will Need

Ingredients

Polly Plastics Moldable Plastic

White Baking Flour

That's All, super easy recipe eh?

Assemble Ingredients

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Take Equal Parts of both the Polly Plastics Moldable plastic and Baking Flour

Shake them together well in a Tupperware dish.

Then spread the mixture out into a thin circle on a cookie sheet

Bake Your Mixture

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Set the oven to 350 F

Place your mixture in for about 10 Minutes or until the plastic pellets turn transparent.

All You Knead Is PolyArmor ;)

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Pull it out of the oven and let it cool for a moment until you feel comfortable handling it to blend it together and knead it all.

Don't let it sit too long though or it will be too hard to work with and you will have to reheat.

Roll It Out Flat

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Using a Pasta maker or a rolling pin, roll out the "dough" into a nice flat smooth sheet of your desired thickness!

Finishing Touches

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The beauty of PolyArmor is that unlike Worbla PolyArmor is very smooth already and requires no layering priming, sanding, or sealing before you can paint it. You can just paint it and it has a beautiful sheen!

It's better than worbla, it is PolyArmor!!!

Get your plastic here to make some of your own!

Conclusion

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If you love this apprenticeship, maybe you will love some of my other ones