TUTORIAL: Making Moulds and Casts

[Rusty-Painting]

Fantastic. Cheers for the assistance.

 

[King Redwart]

Great tutorial @cardyfreak. I actually have some of those Jersey barriers I want to cast. One question though. I'm looking at DWR plastics on eBay and the silicone + catalyst I've founds has two options for its hardness -

Looking to order some tonight (20% off on eBay) so any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

 

[nooker]

Not sure how useful this is to our efforts, but a neat tutorial on how to make edible models:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/edible-and-stackable-diy-lego-gummy-candy/

 

[King Redwart]

Yeah I saw this a week or so ago. It's great!

 

[TakUnderhand]

Guys, just did some really budget moulding..

***only mould your own minis***
It's not fair to steal someone else's designs
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I used this link to make a silicone mould that set in about an hour

Here is my mould


Then I used hot melt glue!


Then trimmed the minis and mounted them on bases:


I made five moulds, as the glue takes a few minutes to cool off. With five moulds on the go, I can be taking a mini out, then re pouring. By which time the glue is set on the next one.

Clearly, these are for wfb. But I did some Esher's too:

Your can just see the original and copy in the right hand corner of the above pic (note, other minis are original, not copies!)

 

[FluffyBunny]

i have all of these things, this is awesome

 

[King Redwart]

Thinking this might be great for barrels/crates etc

 

[TakUnderhand]

Thanks guys
Here's a pic of the same minis mounted on necromunda bases, with a wash undercoat. You can see that the detail has taken quite well:
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[TakUnderhand]

Forgot to say, the glue is hot!!! I have yet another burn to prove it!
Use gloves

 

[djmothra]

I've been watching Adams Man Cave and discovered this - shows exactly how @cardyfreak was doing the mini moulding

Enjoy!

 

[KRUG_666]

wow, thanks for this !

 

[Horatio_Tyllis]

Guys, just did some really budget moulding.

I've used hot glue too. It works very well for some applications. You know, if you got a cheap kitchen mixer from a thrift store with a dough hook on it you could be getting it to the knead stage in about a minute...

 

[TakUnderhand]

Now that would be mass production
The idea of moulding gangs out of my own sculpted figs is really motivating me to get better at sculpting. I reckon I would only need three or four half-decent torso sculpts, before I could then have a good crack at a an entirely moulded gang.

 

[Horatio_Tyllis]

Entirely mounded gang you say? Here's 5 poses of malcadons...

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[TakUnderhand]

Nice one! What's your sculpt and mould set up?

 

[Horatio_Tyllis]

I would never, ever copy and old GW model for personal use... So I just modeled my own carefully using sculpey or something. Silicon rubber mold, platinum catalyzed


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[Horatio_Tyllis]

Added: there's one sculpt, but because I'm using paper cups with wax coating my resin cures to a bendable consistency in a few minutes and takes like 2 days to fully harden. I'm not sure why, but it does. I bent the casts into new sculpts and clamped them like that. Nothing fancy but enough for 5 poses


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[TakUnderhand]

Well they look great. I'm considering shelling out for a better mould setup.
Just a matter of actually sticking with one project for more than 5 mins....

 

[Horatio_Tyllis]

The key is getting the air out of the silicone for fine detail, I belong to a tool co-op that gets me access to a vacuum chamber for that purpose.


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[TakUnderhand]

Using a vacuum makes sense. I took a close look at your tech bases, and the detail is nice.