STAEDTLERFimo Air Basic 8100-43 Air Drying Modelling Clay 500g

Superb quality, great for art!

The terracotta colour is really earthy and lovely. Good value for money.It’s easy to use and manipulate. If when dried it’s a bit rough you can use some sand paper to smooth it down if you prefer a smooth texture.A really fun craft for young and old.

Quite moist. Handles well. Dried quickly.

I don’t think this dries as hard as the Das air dry clay I normally buy but I bought this to try and because it was already pink and I wouldn’t need to paint it afterwards. I wanted to make some pink decorations for my Christmas tree and this product was good enough for that but I did have one that broke but wasn’t a major problem I superglued it back on . Depending on future products I would use this product again . It was lovely to handle .

jolly good price, nice clay, pure white clay, thank you,

We bought a range of clays for the kids during lockdown to play with. We bought primarily the Fimo brand, but as well as this "Air dry" clay we also bought some "Oven Dry".I have to say I much prefer the oven-dry variety. The air dry clay starts to become crumbly quite quickly. You need to mould it into the shape you want relatively fast. Once it starts to dry out (just 5 to 10 minutes in the open air is enough), you cannot easily stick things to things, like handles to mugs that you're making. The handle just drops off, it's too dry,Once you've made your thing, you're supposed to leave it 24 hours, but I've had to leave things 48 hours before the colour goes uniform across the whole piece signifying it has fully dried. During the drying time it must be kept completely immobile. Any knock or vibration can break the joins of any pieces on the side.Once dried, it is quite brittle, so you can't make things with spindly attachments like you can with the oven stuff. You really can only make large bulkier items with big agglomerations of clay, like pendants, mugs, larger ornaments and stuff.The resulting dried output can be very wrinkly, so you'll probably need to apply some pretty gloopy paint to fill in any cracks. I've tried a thinned polyfilla solution with a brush and that seemed to work well to smooth out the wrinkles.Once dried, painting is easy, although the outer surface is a little dusty, so you may need to clean the brush periodically if you want a neat surface.Given that it's relatively inexpensive, and the kids don't really care about making super-neat fine art, this is great clay to play with... But you are faced with the dichotomy that you need to work with big chunks, but the bigger the chunk the longer it takes to mould, and the longer it takes, the drier it gets... So there's definitely an upper-limit to the size of piece you can work on!I'd recommend this for 3 to 6 year olds who want to have some fun with clay. Adults should supervise, handing out clay pieces, and ensuring the rest is kept wrapped up to prevent it drying out.If you have the money, though, I'd recommend the oven-dried clay. It comes in a variety of colours, stays malleable for longer, produces a less brittle result, and is ready in under an hour.

First time I had used Fimo as been using a large block purchased from Aldi. This is a far superior product both for ease of use & for the results. Would definitely purchase again

It's soft, smooth, sturdy and drys with few cracks rather then the lumpy, rough, crumbly clay that drys full of cracks that I usually see with air dry clays. It takes detail really well and is fun to work with.