In this tutorial I will tell you how to make delicious Hamburgers from polymer clay. A lesson for beginners, I tried to write everything simply and clearly. Perhaps you will find answers to some questions in it :) And here are photos of the finished products!
For work we will need:
Smooth work surface. I use glass from a large picture frame. Previously, I used a plastic board for modeling clay, but the plastic stuck to it, and the board absorbed different colors, so I had to wipe and wash it very often. To roll out without sticking, you can use a sheet of paper or tracing paper. Tracing paper, which can be purchased at a hardware store, works well.
Polymer clay. There are different manufacturers of plastic, which determines its quality. Russian plastic "Tsvetik", "Sonnet" or "Artifact" hardens quite quickly during storage. If you buy fresh, you can safely sculpt them, but you can never be sure how they were stored in the store. The Cernit plastic is very soft and does not stick much. It feels more like soft wax than plasticine. "Fimo" is probably the most popular. It is soft, not very sticky, very easy to work with, similar to plasticine.
Utility knife or blade. It is very important that the blade is very sharp, then your products (especially “sausages for decorations”) will not be deformed when cutting.
Metal fittings. You can buy it in sewing stores and ateliers. Nowadays, handicraft stores are opening in many cities, where you can buy whatever your heart desires. You can also use the services of online stores.
rolling pin. This is what is used to roll out large flat surfaces. There are many options here: all kinds of culinary rolling pins (it’s better to sand a wooden one thoroughly with sandpaper first), bottles, varnish cans, handles, plumbing pipes, that is, all objects of an elongated cylindrical shape. For the same purposes, a pasta machine (or noodle cutter) is used - a machine that rolls out large, flat surfaces.
Brush.For applying varnish.
1. In my work I used five colors of plastic. All these colors are ingredients for our hamburger.
2. First prepare the dough. It's very difficult to find the right color! I mix nude and yellow. The yellow color is very rich, so when mixing it should be many times less. Even with such a small amount the color changes significantly. You can add this or that color in the process, look for the required proportion until you achieve the desired result.
3. Now divide the resulting mass into equal parts and roll into balls. Each ball is one hamburger.
4. Now you need to cut the balls in half. A hamburger has two halves. We make one of them more flattened, and the second more rounded (it will be on top).
5. Let's start filling. Our burger will have juicy lettuce! To get a beautiful salad color, mix green and yellow. Then we roll a small ball and flatten it very, very much. It needs to be made with jagged edges to imitate a natural lettuce leaf.
6. Cutlet. What's a hamburger without a patty? I didn't want to go straight brown, so I mixed in a little red. The color has become more interesting. Then you need to roll the resulting color into balls and flatten it. The diameter of the cutlets should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the buns. To make the cutlets look like cutlets, you need to poke them thoroughly with toothpicks on the sides.
7. Tomato. Roll out the red “sausage” and cut thin slices of tomato. Since only its edges will be visible, you don’t need to think about its middle.
8. You can season the hamburger with mayonnaise. How to cook it? I mixed Fimo gel and white acrylic paint. Fimo-gel is a liquid plastic, it is absolutely colorless, so it can be mixed with paints to obtain the desired colors.
I then spread the desired amount of "mayonnaise" onto the burger.
9. I love hamburgers with cheese, or they can already be called cheeseburgers. You need to roll out a large layer of yellow color and cut into even squares.
10. When all the layers are laid, you can cover them with the second bun that has been waiting nearby all this time!
11. Insert pins into the hamburgers. This must be done carefully so as not to damage the product!
12. Baking. Bake the beads in a regular oven at 130 degrees for 15-30 minutes. Read the instructions on the package.
I would like to add that you need to bake in a well-ventilated area, remove pets from the kitchen during baking, and then ventilate the oven (or better yet, wash it altogether).
The baked product may slightly change color. And translucent plastic will acquire its transparency. But you don’t have to expect it to become transparent like glass!
13. To keep the pins from falling out of the beads, I use super glue! It is usually sold in tiny tubes of 1-5 g. I directly pull the pin out of the bead, dip it into the tip of the tube so that the pin is coated in glue, and insert it into place. After this procedure, nothing can get him out of there! This must be done quickly and carefully, since such glue sets very quickly and glues not only the pin to the plastic, but also your hands to everything possible))
14. To make the hamburger warmer and more appetizing, you need to paint it. I do this with watercolors. In order for the watercolor to adhere well to the surface, you need to wipe the product with nail polish remover. I use ocher paint.
15. You need to chop the sesame seeds. With such a small scale, making it round is quite difficult. Therefore, we simplify our task and cut small white triangles.
Coat the top bun of the hamburger with varnish and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
When the varnish dries, you can assemble the resulting hamburgers into products!
Here is the result:
Creative success and inspiration!
For work we will need:
Smooth work surface, polymer clay, stationery knife or blade, mmetal fittings, rolling pin, brush for applying varnish, watercolor paints, varnish, fimo-gel.
1. Five colors of plastic were used in this work. All these colors are ingredients for our hamburger. 
2. First prepare the dough. It's very difficult to find the right color! Mix flesh and yellow. The yellow color is very rich, so when mixing it should be many times less. Even with such a small amount the color changes significantly. You can add this or that color in the process, look for the required proportion until you achieve the desired result. 
3. Now divide the resulting mass into equal parts and roll into balls. Each ball is one hamburger. 
4. Now you need to cut the balls in half. A hamburger has two halves. We make one of them more flattened, and the second more rounded (it will be on top). 
5. Let's start filling. Our burger will have juicy lettuce! To get a beautiful salad color, mix green and yellow. Then we roll a small ball and flatten it very, very much. It needs to be made with jagged edges to imitate a natural lettuce leaf. 
6. Cutlet. The diameter of the cutlets should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the buns. To make the cutlets look like cutlets, you need to poke them thoroughly with toothpicks on the sides. 
7. Tomato. Roll out the red “sausage” and cut thin slices of tomato. Since only its edges will be visible, you don’t need to think about its middle. 
8. You can season the hamburger with mayonnaise. How to cook it? Mix Fimo gel and white acrylic paint. Fimo-gel is a liquid plastic, it is absolutely colorless, so it can be mixed with paints to obtain the desired colors.
I then spread the desired amount of "mayonnaise" onto the burger. 
9. You can also add slices of cheese to our burgers. You need to roll out a large layer of yellow color and cut into even squares. 
10. When all the layers are laid, you can cover them with the second bun that has been waiting nearby all this time! 
11. Insert pins into the hamburgers. This must be done carefully so as not to damage the product!
12. Baking. Bake the beads in a regular oven at 130 degrees for 15-30 minutes. Read the instructions on the package.
I would like to add that you need to bake in a well-ventilated area, remove pets from the kitchen during baking, and then ventilate the oven (or better yet, wash it altogether).
The baked product may slightly change color. And translucent plastic will acquire its transparency. But you don’t have to expect it to become transparent like glass!
13. To prevent the pins from flying out of the beads, use super glue!
14. To make the hamburger warmer and more appetizing, you need to paint it with watercolors. In order for the watercolor to adhere well to the surface, you need to wipe the product with nail polish remover. In this case, Ocher paint was used.
15. You need to chop the sesame seeds. With such a small scale, making it round is quite difficult. Therefore, we simplify our task and cut small white triangles.
Coat the top bun of the hamburger with varnish and sprinkle with sesame seeds. 
When the varnish dries, you can assemble the resulting hamburgers into products!
Here is the result:
For work we will need:
Smooth work surface. I use glass from a large picture frame. Previously, I used a plastic board for modeling clay, but the plastic stuck to it, and the board absorbed different colors, so I had to wipe and wash it very often. To roll out without sticking, you can use a sheet of paper or tracing paper. Tracing paper, which can be purchased at a hardware store, works well.
Polymer clay. There are different manufacturers of plastic, which determines its quality. Russian plastic "Tsvetik", "Sonnet" or "Artifact" hardens quite quickly during storage. If you buy fresh, you can safely sculpt them, but you can never be sure how they were stored in the store. The Cernit plastic is very soft and does not stick much. It feels more like soft wax than plasticine. "Fimo" is probably the most popular. It is soft, not very sticky, very easy to work with, similar to plasticine.
Utility knife or blade. It is very important that the blade is very sharp, then your products (especially “sausages for decorations”) will not be deformed when cutting.
Metal fittings. You can buy it in sewing stores and ateliers. Nowadays, handicraft stores are opening in many cities, where you can buy whatever your heart desires. You can also use the services of online stores.
rolling pin. This is what is used to roll out large flat surfaces. There are many options here: all kinds of culinary rolling pins (it’s better to sand a wooden one thoroughly with sandpaper first), bottles, varnish cans, handles, plumbing pipes, that is, all objects of an elongated cylindrical shape. For the same purposes, a pasta machine (or noodle cutter) is used - a machine that rolls out large, flat surfaces.
Brush.For applying varnish.
1. In my work I used five colors of plastic. All these colors are ingredients for our hamburger.
2. First prepare the dough. It's very difficult to find the right color! I mix nude and yellow. The yellow color is very rich, so when mixing it should be many times less. Even with such a small amount the color changes significantly. You can add this or that color in the process, look for the required proportion until you achieve the desired result.
3. Now divide the resulting mass into equal parts and roll into balls. Each ball is one hamburger.
4. Now you need to cut the balls in half. A hamburger has two halves. We make one of them more flattened, and the second more rounded (it will be on top).
5. Let's start filling. Our burger will have juicy lettuce! To get a beautiful salad color, mix green and yellow. Then we roll a small ball and flatten it very, very much. It needs to be made with jagged edges to imitate a natural lettuce leaf.
6. Cutlet. What's a hamburger without a patty? I didn't want to go straight brown, so I mixed in a little red. The color has become more interesting. Then you need to roll the resulting color into balls and flatten it. The diameter of the cutlets should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the buns. To make the cutlets look like cutlets, you need to poke them thoroughly with toothpicks on the sides.
7. Tomato. Roll out the red “sausage” and cut thin slices of tomato. Since only its edges will be visible, you don’t need to think about its middle.
8. You can season the hamburger with mayonnaise. How to cook it? I mixed Fimo gel and white acrylic paint. Fimo-gel is a liquid plastic, it is absolutely colorless, so it can be mixed with paints to obtain the desired colors.
I then spread the desired amount of "mayonnaise" onto the burger.
9. I love hamburgers with cheese, or they can already be called cheeseburgers. You need to roll out a large layer of yellow color and cut into even squares.
10. When all the layers are laid, you can cover them with the second bun that has been waiting nearby all this time!
11. Insert pins into the hamburgers. This must be done carefully so as not to damage the product!
12. Baking. Bake the beads in a regular oven at 130 degrees for 15-30 minutes. Read the instructions on the package.
I would like to add that you need to bake in a well-ventilated area, remove pets from the kitchen during baking, and then ventilate the oven (or better yet, wash it altogether).
The baked product may slightly change color. And translucent plastic will acquire its transparency. But you don’t have to expect it to become transparent like glass!
13. To keep the pins from falling out of the beads, I use super glue! It is usually sold in tiny tubes of 1-5 g. I directly pull the pin out of the bead, dip it into the tip of the tube so that the pin is coated in glue, and insert it into place. After this procedure, nothing can get him out of there! This must be done quickly and carefully, since such glue sets very quickly and glues not only the pin to the plastic, but also your hands to everything possible))
14. To make the hamburger warmer and more appetizing, you need to paint it. I do this with watercolors. In order for the watercolor to adhere well to the surface, you need to wipe the product with nail polish remover. I use ocher paint.
15. You need to chop the sesame seeds. With such a small scale, making it round is quite difficult. Therefore, we simplify our task and cut small white triangles.
Coat the top bun of the hamburger with varnish and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
When the varnish dries, you can assemble the resulting hamburgers into products!
Here is the result:
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Creative success and inspiration!
In this tutorial I will tell you how to make delicious hamburgers from polymer clay.
For work we will need:
Smooth work surface. I use glass from a large picture frame. Previously, I used a plastic board for modeling clay, but the plastic stuck to it, and the board absorbed different colors, so I had to wipe and wash it very often. To roll out without sticking, you can use a sheet of paper or tracing paper. Tracing paper, which can be purchased at a hardware store, works well.
Polymer clay. There are different manufacturers of plastic, which determines its quality. Russian plastic "Tsvetik", "Sonnet" or "Artifact" hardens quite quickly during storage. If you buy fresh, you can safely sculpt them, but you can never be sure how they were stored in the store. The Cernit plastic is very soft and does not stick much. It feels more like soft wax than plasticine. "Fimo" is probably the most popular. It is soft, not very sticky, very easy to work with, similar to plasticine.
Stationery knife or blade. It is very important that the blade is very sharp, then your products (especially “sausages for decorations”) will not be deformed when cutting.
Metal fittings. You can buy it in sewing stores and ateliers. Nowadays, handicraft stores are opening in many cities, where you can buy whatever your heart desires. You can also use the services of online stores.
Rolling pin. This is what is used to roll out large flat surfaces. There are many options here: all kinds of culinary rolling pins (it’s better to sand a wooden one thoroughly with sandpaper first), bottles, varnish cans, handles, plumbing pipes, that is, all objects of an elongated cylindrical shape. For the same purposes, a pasta machine (or noodle cutter) is used - a machine that rolls out large, flat surfaces.
Brush. For applying varnish.
Varnish.
1. In my work I used five colors of plastic. All these colors are ingredients for our hamburger.
2. First prepare the dough. It's very difficult to find the right color! I mix nude and yellow. The yellow color is very rich, so when mixing it should be many times less. Even with such a small amount the color changes significantly. You can add this or that color in the process, look for the required proportion until you achieve the desired result.
3. Now divide the resulting mass into equal parts and roll into balls. Each ball is one hamburger.
4. Now you need to cut the balls in half. A hamburger has two halves. We make one of them more flattened, and the second more rounded (it will be on top).
5. Let's start filling. Our burger will have juicy lettuce! To get a beautiful salad color, mix green and yellow. Then we roll a small ball and flatten it very, very much. It needs to be made with jagged edges to imitate a natural lettuce leaf.
6. Cutlet. What's a hamburger without a patty? I didn't want to go straight brown, so I mixed in a little red. The color has become more interesting. Then you need to roll the resulting color into balls and flatten it. The diameter of the cutlets should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the buns. To make the cutlets look like cutlets, you need to poke them thoroughly with toothpicks on the sides.
7. Tomato. Roll out the red “sausage” and cut thin slices of tomato. Since only its edges will be visible, you don’t need to think about its middle.
8. You can season the hamburger with mayonnaise. How to cook it? I mixed Fimo gel and white acrylic paint. Fimo-gel is a liquid plastic, it is absolutely colorless, so it can be mixed with paints to obtain the desired colors.
I then spread the desired amount of "mayonnaise" onto the burger.
9. I love hamburgers with cheese, or they can already be called cheeseburgers. You need to roll out a large layer of yellow color and cut into even squares.
10. When all the layers are laid, you can cover them with the second bun that has been waiting nearby all this time!
11. Insert pins into the hamburgers. This must be done carefully so as not to damage the product!
12. Baking. Bake the beads in a regular oven at 130 degrees for 15-30 minutes. Read the instructions on the package.
I would like to add that you need to bake in a well-ventilated area, remove pets from the kitchen during baking, and then ventilate the oven (or better yet, wash it altogether).
The baked product may slightly change color. And translucent plastic will acquire its transparency. But you don’t have to expect it to become transparent like glass!
13. To keep the pins from falling out of the beads, I use super glue! It is usually sold in tiny tubes of 1-5 g. I directly pull the pin out of the bead, dip it into the tip of the tube so that the pin is coated in glue, and insert it into place. After this procedure, nothing can get him out of there! This must be done quickly and carefully, since such glue sets very quickly and glues not only the pin to the plastic, but also your hands to everything possible))
14. To make the hamburger warmer and more appetizing, you need to paint it. I do this with watercolors. In order for the watercolor to adhere well to the surface, you need to wipe the product with nail polish remover. I use ocher paint.
15. You need to chop the sesame seeds. With such a small scale, making it round is quite difficult. Therefore, we simplify our task and cut small white triangles.
Coat the top bun of the hamburger with varnish and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
When the varnish dries, you can assemble the resulting hamburgers into products!
Here is the result:
Creative success and inspiration!