My Mother In The Bathroom

took some time looking for information on how to make a mold and materials needed for manufacturing. As well as tips on how to do it properly, avoid air bubbles from the resin to the air vents etc.

When almost had all the information needed to start my little project I've heard that a friend has already made molds (small figures in his case) and another has a sculptor father sometimes has helped make molds sculptures. So

in 20 minutes as I have explained in great detail how to make a mold correctly (tips included), the potential problems that I can find and approximate prices of materials used.

From all this I have come to one conclusion: take a mold is very expensive and complicated and can be very expensive or very cheap depending on the quality of materials used ... and if you want a good result and a durable mold materials need to buy quality (and therefore expensive).

For example, to a figure of resin (a head, for example) you must use low-viscosity resin as the liquid resin tends to bubble when the mixtures with a catalyst and a figure you still porous. However, if the figure is very small (like a warhammer figure) fall under the resin with a syringe of 20 cl to not form pores (since the syringe compresses the resin and removes Grumiller).

There are many materials to make the mold, but the material you use depends on the durability you intend to give the mold. If you make a plaster cast can only be done once the figure, as it erodes very easily, yet hold very well in temperatures (in the case of the figure is made of iron, for example) and is very inexpensive; however if you do silicone durability is much greater, as the level of detail The bad thing is that it is expensive (one liter costs about 30 €) and the temperature of the material must be "environment."

Anyway, I have to do a walkthrough of the process of creating my first cast (which will be a clone, not a self-created) test. Later I will make my first doll and>.