How to make a tiny polymer clay orange

How to make a tiny polymer clay orange. (via Craft)

[#1 posted by guy_jin , January 21, 2009 9:50 AM]

Why aren't they making tiny violins? I NEED a tiny violin!

[#2 posted by Bob Doles Communist Doppelganger , January 21, 2009 9:56 AM]

@1:

Really, though, the only reason you'd need to play the world's tiniest violin would be to lament your lack of tiny polymer clay oranges, a problem that is now solved.

Now I just need a tiny "Polymer Clay Oranges" pennant to wave.

[#3 posted by oasisob1 , January 21, 2009 10:42 AM]

I'd like a tiny polymer clay violin to accompany this piano: http://www.xkcd.com/532/

[#4 posted by anaximander , January 21, 2009 10:46 AM]

Looks to have originally come from here - she has loads of books covering food & other miniatures.

http://www.angiescarr.co.uk/

[#5 posted by Lars Haeh , January 21, 2009 10:50 AM]

This is the same extruding process used in making some types of hard candy.

How It's Made did an excellent job of documenting the process in this video:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=uep6FKZWRsY

The results are astounding.

[#6 posted by Ned613 , January 21, 2009 10:53 AM]

But its not a navel orange!

[#7 posted by Rezpect , January 21, 2009 11:09 AM]

Yep, that's exactly what it is.

[#8 posted by Gilbert Wham , January 21, 2009 11:39 AM]

This was BB'ed a couple or so years ago if I remember correctly. They're still pretty cool little oranges though.

[#9 posted by LYNDON , January 21, 2009 12:20 PM]

This is the same extruding process used in making some types of hard candy.

And, at least I assume, quite like how they make the lovely millefiore glass in Murano and places that copy Murano. Except colder.

[#10 posted by Lauren O , January 21, 2009 1:35 PM]

Tilt-shifted.

(I can tell by the pixels.)

[#11 posted by HaltingPoint , January 21, 2009 3:54 PM]

Looks like the person with the blog is now aware of their boost in incoming traffic and has put a stupid interstitial ad up. Yay for spammers.

[#12 posted by Anonymous , January 21, 2009 5:25 PM]

It doesn't look like there's any credit on the sites linked - the orange tutorial is by Angie Scarr. Here it is on her site: http://www.angiescarr.co.uk/UK_Oranges_Demonstration.html

[#13 posted by Anonymous , January 21, 2009 10:05 PM]

@#3.. re: the tiny piano- do you think he asked for a tiny pianist?

[#14 posted by Anonymous , January 22, 2009 5:38 AM]

@#10: What we really need is how to make a giant hand and razorblade.

[#15 posted by Noelegy , January 22, 2009 9:22 AM]

Last summer, during the time I was job-hunting, our 7-year-old niece came to stay with us for a couple of weeks. I had a shoebox-sized carryall filled with various colors of polymer clay, and sculpting tools (a well-meaning art project that never took off), and, running out of things to keep her occupied, I got out the clay and we started making dollhouse food. That stuff is addicting.

I had a polymer clay technique book that had a woefully short section on making food, and she and I modeled food for three days, fired and varnished it, and I sent it all home with her except for the tiny, adorable plate of California roll (complete with convincing wasabi and pickled ginger) that I made and kept for myself. We didn't make any oranges, though. And I wonder why. My life seems incomplete without wee clay oranges.

[#16 posted by Takuan , January 22, 2009 9:31 AM]

extruder gun

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=32811&cat=1,250,43298