Part 1 of a Video Series that details how to make Rubber Molds and Resin Casts of your own 28mm Miniatures. The casting kits used is Smooth-On’s Mold Making and Casting Pourable Starter Kit. Smooth-On’s Website: www.smooth-on.com (Also check out their great Mold and Cast videos!) Apparently on Amazon.com as well: www.amazon.com
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Friday, August 13th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Mold Making and Resin Casting Your Own Sculpted Miniatures – Part 1
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Note to everyone mold release is extremely toxic. If you use it without protection it will coat your eyes in plastic and give you cancer no joke
@45Highroller
i tried this with some space marines and it utterly destroyed them.
THIS PROCESS WILL MELT PLASTIC MODELS
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch dude!
Question: How many points of resin and mold can this make? I can’t find the info anywhere. I was considering buying the resin and mold making stuff separately and in larger quantities if this has too little in the box. Thanks! Best videos ever.
is it stealing if you reproduce warhammer minis but dont sell them?
Do you know where I can get it in the UK without paying rediculous postage
@boomstick5 I hate to say it, but you win the youtube n00b award!
Check the “more info” link at the right for the notes.
What is the website that you can buy this?
Great vid, thanx for the valuable info.
You only need permission if you are going to sell them.
AWESOME! =]
Is this silicone appropriate for casting with pewter?
Ie. Is it heat resistant?
Room temperature vucanising has nothing to do with the set up temp, it’s a process where the rubber turns into a hard flexible substance. You used to use sheets of raw latex rubber clamped around your master and bake them to vucanise them. The casting resin isn’t rtv at all.
Also you need to use play that is specially made for use with the rtv rubber or it will prevent it from setting up, so you have to get it from the rubber supplier.
is this kit suitable to use when using a plastic master?
Dead on. In the US you can recreate any original work with the permission of the copyright owner (the maker of the original work).
As for the video, THANKS! I have been thinking of recreating a few sculpts that I did, and was not really sure how to go about doing it. I have heard good things about easy flow 60 as a two part resin. . . and the stuff seems to be TOUGH.
Again, thanks for the great video series. I found it very informative.
why the hell would you want to make mold?. . . -. – it’s nasty fuzzy and green! pleh!!!
i subbed it helped me alot
great job dude. i was wondering whats the name of that clay you used to hold mini’s?and i noticed that when you sucked up resin it seems that air got in. how many bubbles show up in finished product?
Using lego for years now with oil clay, but until now restricted to plaster molds severely limits the amount of detail you can acheive. Love your tutorials as a former miniatures wargamer and painter i must say your videos have helped in my model work.
Lego! Brilliant! I’ve been using foam core and hot glue for a while now. . pain in the arse
Glad I could be of help! Share the vids with others.
DUDE, thank you so much, I’m about to get into all this and a video really cleared up alot of the questions i had, GREAT idea with the syringe 5′d the whole series, fav’ed and subscribed /bow
5/5
Very good video!
your friend is a good sculptor too
Even that would be perfectly legal, so long as the models are original.