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Raw fur. Edges need to be hidden, fur needs shaved, seams need tightening.Related content
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Lol, thank you very much!
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Hey your work is amazing first of all! So I am going to be trying to make a cast and I was wondering...
1. Do you order those small jugs from smooth-cast or do you order the gallon jugs?
2. If I order the silicone from them too will I also need the small jug?
3. Can you use plaster for the mother mold?
4. How many masks can you get out of one mold?
5. What are the health risks?
6. How do you stay safe when casting?
Sorry for all the questions, just want to make sure I am going to do it right...
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Lol, hey thanks!
1) I just bought the trial sizes from Smooth-On. The gallon ones are super expensive.
2) Trial size here, too. Both the ONYX and the Rebound 25.
3) I did use plaster for my mothermold. Just basic craft plaster from Michael's. Make sure you rub the strips a few times in your hands to work it through, but not too thoroughly, or you can wash the plaster right out of the strip and into your water bowl.
4) This question I'm not sure of. I'm sure the mold could yield hundreds of casts, if treated gently enough. I'm not sure at what point silicone actually breaks down and becomes unsuitable for pulling casts, as I'm new to resin masks myself. The one you see in my gallery was the first one I ever made.
5) WEAR GLOVES WHEN YOU USE THESE. It's not going to kill you, but I made the use mistake of not wearing gloves, and I still had resin fused to my fingernails 2 months later until they completely grew out. DO NOT get the resin on something you don't want to become ruined. Clothes, a sink, anything. It will not come off. Be careful when mixing them and pouring them, as I got some silicone from one of the jars on my carpet by accident and it stained. Other than that, they don't outgas any fumes, I did all of my moldmaking and casting in a bedroom and a bathroom. No respirator, but you might want goggles if you're worried about splashes or something.
6) Same as above, GET GLOVES! Resin does not want to come off of your skin, when it hardens, it will take your skin with it like a horrible scab. Make sure you put down newspaper or something, too, and wear clothes you don't care about.
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OK sounds great! So this might be a dumb question I don't know... how do I go about casting with the tear ducats already cut? Also What do you use to seperate the jaw?
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I had a wonderful tool for this: a dremel with a cutting wheel. I really hope you have one or can borrow one, because it made my experience a million times easier. I have no idea how you could delicately cut the jaw out without one, unless you were very patient with something very sharp and dangerous.
And, when you make your mold, you gunk up the tear duct cavities with silicone so they come out in the intended shape in the mold. When you pour resin into the mold, you swirl it around those cavities, so the final mask will have holes for tear ducts just like your original sculpt does. Does that make sense?
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So you make a silicone spot of silicone over the hole but when it gets to the resin don't put in on the holes?
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Uhhh, well, when you pour the silicone into the tear ducts, and let it dry, and then pull it off the sculpt, there will be silicone mounds where it was puddled into the eyes. When you pour the resin into the mold, you swish it AROUND those eye mounds, so when you demold the resin copy, since you didn't fill the eye duct mounds with resin, the positive copy of the mask will have the eye holes. Does that make more sense?
(I meant to actually clarify this earlier, since I said holes and not mounds)
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So I will cut away the silicone that goes into the holes? Than just not get resin in the eye holes?
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Um, sort of? What do you mean by cutting away the silicone? (also have you done this yet? I know it's taken me a while to reply D
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Ohhhhhh, I see what you mean, and no no no no, you leave the mold as is, you do NOT cut out the tear ducts. Resin will get absolutely everywhere and it will look terrible. When you make the mold, and gunk silicone into the tear ducts, when you pull it out, there will be giant, tear-duct shaped mounds in your negative, because the positive cast had holes, see? So when you slush cast your resin inside the mold, you just slush it around those mounds, and you will have positive holes. Because no resin could get up and over those mounds. Does that make sense now?
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Well I guess I was confused. Do I leave the mold as is? or do I cute the tear ducts out than do the resin?
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(*cavities and not mounds)
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