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<p>[QUOTE="kyratango, post: 10770745, member: 5006"]Mirana! Your Medusa is beautiful, the pieces you show after her are top notch!!!</p><p>VERY INTERESTING to see, thank you<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie99" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Absolutely! Tshell (as horn!) is considered as an early plastic, just non chemical but because of its properties when heated and pressed. Old processes even included using leftovers and dust being transformed in paste to be molded!</p><p>The scales of the shell had to be treated like that to be assembled to get thick enough material for decoration or carving.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kyratango, post: 10770745, member: 5006"]Mirana! Your Medusa is beautiful, the pieces you show after her are top notch!!! VERY INTERESTING to see, thank you:woot:. Absolutely! Tshell (as horn!) is considered as an early plastic, just non chemical but because of its properties when heated and pressed. Old processes even included using leftovers and dust being transformed in paste to be molded! The scales of the shell had to be treated like that to be assembled to get thick enough material for decoration or carving.[/QUOTE]
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