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Plasticine is a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and aliphatic acids. Though originally a brand name for the British version of the product, it is now applied generically in English as a product category to other formulations.
In English-speaking countries this material is also known as "plasticine." Because of different patent rights in Germany and England there are different views about who actually invented plasticine. In England, William Harbutt is seen as the inventor, while in Germany it is Franz Kolb. Kolb's German patent is from 1880 while Harbutt's English ...
William Harbutt developed plasticine in 1897. To promote his educational "Plastic Method" he made a handbook that included several photographs that displayed various stages of creative projects. The images suggest phases of motion or change, but the book probably did not have a direct influence on claymation films. Still, the plasticine product ...
The Paradise in Plasticine garden, a creation of journalist and presenter James May displayed at the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show included a bust of Harbutt sculpted by Jane McAdam Freud. [ 8 ] In 2009, his hometown of North Shields attempted to commemorate his legacy by commissioning some street furniture to resemble plasticine shapes and colour ...
Plasticine: Modelling clay: Flair Leisure Products plc: Often applied as a name for a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and aliphatic acids. It is often used as modelling medium for art such as claymation. [169] Play-Doh: Modelling clay: Hasbro
To see the possible potential of the artistic toy, James May decides to create an entire garden out of Plasticine and enter it into the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show. After creating a design that is accepted for the show, the project soon has the momentous task of recruiting volunteers to make flowers, decorations and an entire tree, and providing a ...
Thylacosmilus is an extinct genus of saber-toothed metatherian mammals that inhabited South America from the Late Miocene to Pliocene epochs.Though Thylacosmilus looks similar to the "saber-toothed cats", it was not a felid, like the well-known North American Smilodon, but a sparassodont, a group closely related to marsupials, and only superficially resembled other saber-toothed mammals due to ...
Industrial plasticine is a modeling material which is mainly used by automotive design studios. [1] It was developed as an industrial version of Plasticine or hobby clay. Industrial plasticine is based on wax and typically contains sulfur , which gives a characteristic smell to most artificial clays.