h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Its equivalent in the the USA is known as "Green Stuff".

Milliput, made in a small factory in South Wales, is a two-part resin that comes in two seperately wrapped sticks.

Each is soft to the touch, like plasticene, and softens more when subjected to heat.

If equal amounts are broken off each stick and blended and kneaded together, the result is a greyish-green putty that can be shaped and moulded as the artist desires. It starts to "cure" after maybe an hour and sets to a rock-solid consistency after 18-24 hours.

After this it accepts filing, drilling and sanding, and while you can only get three colours of milliput (grey-green, white and terracotta red)it accepts paints easioy.

FIMO is nice stuff for work requiring vivid colours, but ounce for ounce it's about six times more expensive than Milliput and require external heat to "cure" it.

Agravatingly, the FIMO instructions talk in terms of electic ovens and degrees C - if you only have a gas oven at home you have no clue as to how much heat is enough to "set" the stuff... even a little too much heat will case it to crumble or scorch. Nice stuff for coloured inlays and things, though.

So what gas mark is correct to cure FIMO? This would be useful knowledge! (Or if it could come as a two-part putty a la Milliput with a setting agent to blend in,...)