As announced in the last post: Fimo, baby! If you don’t know Fimo, it’s a lot like modeling clay, but you can harden it in your oven. After hardening, it’s like a long lasting, very hard rubber that can be filed, sawed etc. So it’s a great material to create casings of any kind.

In this case I’ll address another problem I see with the current Pokens: they’re cute and all but not really for business use. For that I think elegant, black, maybe leather. Something like a slightly oversized USB stick.

As base I use the Poken from Lift09 this time. It’s almost the shape of a Misslyn nail file so I took 3 of them and taped them together. Then I wrapped them in tin foil and applied the Fimo around it. After modelling it tightly around, you can just pull it off because of the tin foil. Don’t worry, you can easily scrape it out after baking it in the oven.

After the modeling it’s oven time. Don’t worry about fingerprints or irregularities – they will be filed off anyway. But beware: baked Fimo is pretty tough. You’d better have good sand paper. Or, if you’re like me (read: lazy), drive to somebody who has a grinding machine. So, more pictures soon.

Tags: customization, customizing, fimo, modelling

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