There are quite a few brands ADC all over the world. Also homemade recipes are available online. I'm one of those who make minis from ADC. I used Japanese ADC, Luna clay and now trying Thai ADC out.
-> Once you get the clay you will need artist color, water color, poster color, oil color or acrylic color to colorized the clay.
-> You will need hand cream or olive oil or the cold cream to coat your mold, cookie cutter or mini-cutter as the clay is kind of sticky and always stick to materials and even on your fingers.
-> You need white glue to glue parts together.
-> You do need to coat your finished items with clear varnish for the items' durability. They are not oven clay so, they are soluble in water.
-> ADC shrinks, different brand has different degree of shrinkage. So, ADC is not recommended for thick items or items with different thickness.
-> Most PC minis techniques are applicable for ADC.
-> From ADC and CP recipes, the ingredients are quite similar. Some ADC has kaolin or talcum as main ingredient instead of cornstarch.
(I bought 2 packs of Thai clay from different life-size clay flower shops and found that one gives translucent appearance once dried out while another is rather in white color.
I hope this is useful for you who is about to try ADC.
Rachel
