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Repairing a statue help

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Repairing a statue help
Matthewlondon

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Hey guys.

As some of you know I received the LE maleficent statue damaged with a horn snapped off and no horn in the box to glue back on.

I'm still waiting on a response from Disney and I had planned on sending it back. Now I'm thinking of keeping it because I really don't want to pay £400 to eBay to get another one for the sake of the horn!

Now I'm wondering if theirs a way to fix it? Could I get some kind of sculpey and sculpt a new horn and paint it black? What do you think?

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I would definitely try to sculpt something and paint it. You'll probably see it's different than the statue's material but it might be less annoying then a chipped off horn.
 
I think you have to cast resin. You have to sculpt something in clay, or something like that, make a mold and cast resin. It's not that hard to find, though. You just need clay, resin and the mold. You can find many DIY tutorials for molds, with household materials and such (such as baking soda). Or you can try with just clay, I think you can manipulat sculptey a bit so it seems like resin (such as painting it).
 
I *think* there are some professional guys out there like in statue collections forums (comics especially) and they know how to fix these things really well, I think you can even commission them? I'm in a Middle-Earth forum where many members collect statues, if you want to, I can ask around there for some help? :)
 
Epoxy resin?


Or, use sculpey. The kind you bake. I'd do this...

stick two pieces around her other, unbroken horn and make a mould, half and half. Bake that. Stick more sculpey into your mould, then use that. Neaten the edges, Twist into shape, make it fit, bake that. Stick it on, paint it.
 
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