How to Make Your Own Worbla

Hey Cosplayers, in todays apprenticeship on Forging with Thermoplastics, I'll be teaching you how to make your very own Worbla! No more Paying an arm and a leg, this stuff is even better than worbla, I call it PolyArmor!

Step 1: Watch the Video

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Begin this Tutorial by watching the video!

Step 2: What You Will Need

Ingredients

Polly Plastics Moldable Plastic

White Baking Flour

That's All, super easy recipe eh?

Step 3: Assemble Ingredients

Take Equal Parts of both the Polly Plastics Moldable plastic and Baking Flour

Shake them together well in a Tupperware dish.

Then spread the mixture out into a thin circle on a cookie sheet

Step 4: Bake Your Mixture

Set the oven to 350 F

Place your mixture in for about 10 Minutes or until the plastic pellets turn transparent.

Step 5: All You Knead Is PolyArmor ;)

Pull it out of the oven and let it cool for a moment until you feel comfortable handling it to blend it together and knead it all.

Don't let it sit too long though or it will be too hard to work with and you will have to reheat.

Step 6: Roll It Out Flat

Using a Pasta maker or a rolling pin, roll out the "dough" into a nice flat smooth sheet of your desired thickness!

Step 7: Finishing Touches

The beauty of PolyArmor is that unlike Worbla PolyArmor is very smooth already and requires no layering priming, sanding, or sealing before you can paint it. You can just paint it and it has a beautiful sheen!

It's better than worbla, it is PolyArmor!!!

Get your plastic here to make some of your own!

Step 8: Conclusion

If you love this apprenticeship, maybe you will love some of my other ones

Comments

[wnorman]

just a small point the White Baking Flour you say is Self Raising flour or is it plain flour as both are classed as Baking Flour's

[hanelyp]

Educated guess, pretty sure it would be plain flour. Self rising flour would release CO2 gas when heated the first time.

[VinnieDakota]

This is amazing!! Definatly going to hve to try it. I'm working on an Ahsoka Tano season 7 cosplay from Clone Wars, and was looking to pick up some Worbla for it, but being broke, I couldn't. hanks for this!

[Amberrmunoz]

When you say equal parts, do you mean by weight or volume?

[LauraR47]

How do you make a piece that is bigger than a baking sheet? Do you just make several pieces then heat and combine them?

[thorvindr]

This may have been answered in the videos but:
Will this ruin my oven? I know you shouldn't use the same oven for food and for finishing 3d-printed pieces. I suspect the same applies here. I'd hate to poison my family by baking bagel bites after baking this stuff.

[Iskelderon]

Quite interesting! What's the shelf life of this? Won't the flour component spoil over time?

[thorvindr]

I'm just spitballing but it seems to me that when you melt flour into plastic, you're essentially coating each "grain" of flour in plastic. I don't see how that would allow it to spoil.

[Plastic Apprentice]

I have had stuff I have made out of it for about 2 years now with no sign of degredation or spoiling

[cspangler]

I know this post is a couple years old, but I was wondering if there were any problems with this stuff melting in the sun, or loosing shape in hot environments. Like will my armor melt if I have to walk from a convention center to a restaurant on a hot day?

[tazmo8448]

guess if I have to ask what a Worbla is I don't need one

[Plastic Apprentice]

Haha, it is a thermoplastic sheet that you can use to shape for any kind of molding/ modeling project you want. it can take complex curves and cools hard. It can be reheated and reshaped as many times as you want or need. :)

[Plastic Apprentice]

Hahaha :) Worbla is a thermoplastic sheet frequently used by Cosplayers to make armor, but it can have many other crafting and DIY uses as well :)

[tazmo8448]

thanks for cluing me in...is that some sort of Dungeons & Dragons sort of thing? or just a overall role playing deal.

[Plastic Apprentice]

Cosplay in general, any fandom from any genre :) Star Wars to Lord of the Rings to Marvel to DC

[Plastic Apprentice]

Just general Cosplay, Movies, Comics, TV Shows, Games, any kind of fandom :)

[syates3]

From the Pages of the Worbla bible....

[Plastic Apprentice]

That is awesome!! Who made that?

[tazmo8448]

thanks for the heads up..

[mizrie]

Fantsstic money saving idea! I am in the UK, is Polymorph Plastimake the same thing as Polyplastics mouldable plastics?