Molding and Casting
Bring your ideas to life the old school way.
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Way back in 2000-2001 I sculpted my first Bio helmet. Humble beginnings. 🙂 We are start somewhere and I wanted to show my embarrassingly amateurish sculpture. Was sculpted over a home depot spray foam base. Used Roma Plastilina Clay. The basic idea was a segmented armor helmet that had a "samurai" vibe to it. I ended up getting silly with the paint. Blue and lots of dots. The reason I am putting it here is that the helmet was molded using Silicone Caulking tubes. They are cheap, readily available and can render a quick helmet. A good entry level practive project before you graduate to expensive silicones. The idea being. Make all your mistakes an…
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Back in the day I didn't have access to all the goodies we now have to build so I had to find what I could on a budget.. Came across this insta mold stuff at micheals craft store and I had the idea instead of using resin use hot glue to fill the one sided mold. Insta mold is safe and can be used to do a few castings before it dries out and shrinks..which is cool too but has a limited life span... Anyhew here it goes.. I remember the process because I developed it through many burns and trail and error. Some use a pot to heat down the glue I used an industrial glue gun. 1st step... sculpt your piece... one sided works best.. Turn on glue gu…
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Inspiration for this came.from speaking with usurper with pieces he has done, so I decided to try myself. I used two different brushes for the powder and brushed it into the mold and literally poured the urethane resin on to it.. Let it set and detmold and hey presto the result.. Well the result is in the pictures. No paint has been used in the pics that's all pigment straight from the mold. I will be doing more like this with the avp elder mold I have as well
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