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Years ago I bought some medium NSP Plasteline clay. Frankly I bought the cheapest I could because it's all I could afford at the time. Having not previously worked with that clay I figured "Wow, this stuff is difficult but that's just the nature of the beast." I would heat it up and it would either be molten or would cool off immediately, making for a start-stop workflow, which I feel messes with creative flow. I dealt with it for a while and the difficulty of working with it actually turned me off from sculpting for a while.

Just recently I bought actual legitimate "Monster Clay". Medium grade, again, and I lucked by getting it on sale. Still, it's a few dollars more than the older clay I bought but still...

Holy shit.

It's like I've been driving a Yugo for years and suddenly I get behind the wheel of a Mercedes. I worked on blocking out a design last night and was oooh'ing and ahhh'ing the whole time. It has elasticity, it melts but doesn't become like wet clay coating my hand, and it HOLDS warmth so I don't have to yo-yo with my temperatures to keep it workable. Sometimes you just cannot beat the legitimate thing!