Where Can I Buy Modelling Clay?

[bendyallen]

anyone know where i can buy modelling clay? thanks!

[Steve2UK]

Can't swear to have seen it there but the art supplies department upstairs at the large bookstore on Rachawithi is likely to have it. Same side as the UN Irish Pub and about 100 metres further along towards the moat.

[noise]

Can't swear to have seen it there but the art supplies department upstairs at the large bookstore on Rachawithi is likely to have it. Same side as the UN Irish Pub and about 100 metres further along towards the moat.

If you are asking about the kind we used as kids, I have gotten it at Home Pro and other hardware stores. It is used for packing around plumbing slip joints, e.g., under the sink, where there are no threads, just a smaller pipe feeding into a larger one.

If you want artist quality, then I do not know.

[kalbo123]

Can't swear to have seen it there but the art supplies department upstairs at the large bookstore on Rachawithi is likely to have it. Same side as the UN Irish Pub and about 100 metres further along towards the moat.

If you are asking about the kind we used as kids, I have gotten it at Home Pro and other hardware stores. It is used for packing around plumbing slip joints, e.g., under the sink, where there are no threads, just a smaller pipe feeding into a larger one.

If you want artist quality, then I do not know.

Some shops sell it behind Lotus on highway 11 where the flower/plants market is at.

[Steve2UK]

Some shops sell it behind Lotus on highway 11 where the flower/plants market is at.

Good suggestion - many shrubs/bigger plants are sold with a clay packing around the roots. The clay itself is quite smooth and fine-grained - should be good for modelling (but pale colour). BTW, Highway 11 is aka Superhighway.

[haybilly]

Can't swear to have seen it there but the art supplies department upstairs at the large bookstore on Rachawithi is likely to have it. Same side as the UN Irish Pub and about 100 metres further along towards the moat.

If you are asking about the kind we used as kids, I have gotten it at Home Pro and other hardware stores. It is used for packing around plumbing slip joints, e.g., under the sink, where there are no threads, just a smaller pipe feeding into a larger one.

If you want artist quality, then I do not know.

Some shops sell it behind Lotus on highway 11 where the flower/plants market is at.

That's where I was going to recommend--my friend has a few bags in his shed for starting off water lillies in his pond--it looks just like the stuff my ex, in UK, used to make pottery and other crap.

[noise]

[quote name='kalbo123' post='2569965' date='2009-03-03

That's where I was going to recommend--my friend has a few bags in his shed for starting off water lillies in his pond--it looks just like the stuff my ex, in UK, used to make pottery and other crap.

I have used that in the garden frequently but never thought of it as "modeling quality". So it makes a decent artifact after baking in a kiln?

Edited March 4, 2009 by noise

[KhunVee]

[quote name='kalbo123' post='2569965' date='2009-03-03

That's where I was going to recommend--my friend has a few bags in his shed for starting off water lillies in his pond--it looks just like the stuff my ex, in UK, used to make pottery and other crap.

I have used that in the garden frequently but never thought of it as "modeling quality". So it makes a decent artifact after baking in a kiln?

YES, I don't know much about pottery myself, but my friend is using this clay to make some nice artistic and detailed pottery, you can bake it in a kiln etc,....

It's pretty cheap, so won't cost you more than 20-40 Baht and some of your time in experimenting.