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Very small and funny puppets, dwarves en kobolds, princes and princesses, trolls en fairies are made by two hands, ten fingers and a high inspiration level. Welcome in this magical world... The puppets are made out of Fimo (a kind of plasticine which can be baked in the oven) in all possible colors and with the most imaginable clothes on. They are about 1 inch tall and ask one hour of work for one.When you begin you have a lot of fimo and many different colors, you chose which ones you are going to use are make new ones by putting other colors together. Then all the parts you are going to use, you should keden very well. First you make a head and a body after that the little fellow get dressed depending on who he will be or look like; he or she get a nice haircut and maybe a moustage or beard? At that moment it feels like you’re creating a wisent that got born on that moment.
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Before you start you
have of course a certain idea how it shall look like but while modeling it
just comes out. Most of the time they are made for some one else, so it is
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whom your making it for, it’s a bit similar
to cooking with love for some one. When the figure is ready it gets into the
oven for 20 minutes on 130°, a good advice; never preheat the oven otherwise
not pretty much is left over en it smells terrible... After the backingproccess they’re solid and water
resistant. Then after taken a picture and given it a name, they got softly ingepakt
and leave their birth nest to make other people happy are sometimes even
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Without doubt, Ellgurd
is probable the most famous from the whole fimo-familie, he still lives on the
place where he was born and shall probably never leaves his creative parents...
On this website you can
see Ellgurd in full action and here or there some others of his family and friends.
or
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