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<blockquote data-quote="Tac-O" data-source="post: 2028556" data-attributes="member: 109994"><p>Very cool!!</p><p></p><p>I've often thought about how someone would do this at home and how the mold would be made. My grandpa has owned and still runs a little plaster figurine shop for 40+ years where he makes tons of fiberglass resin molds and silicone molds to pour his plaster into. I worked in his shop through highschool, so this is pretty interesting to me!</p><p></p><p>With your mold frame, are you going to build up the walls of the frame so that you can pour your resin over the full height of the stock, or are you going to do your mold in two halves, one at a time?</p><p></p><p></p><p>I believe my grandpa's main molding method was to paint on layers and layers of liquid latex until it was about 1/8" thick. Depending on the shape, he would sometimes build in a seam along the edge so that the mold could be split open to get the figurine out easier. After the latex part was done, he would then create an outer shell of fiberglass and resin to support the latex mold when pouring in the plaster. He also built in a seam to the shell all the way around, so that the shell could be split in half and removed when the plaster set up and the mold was to be removed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tac-O, post: 2028556, member: 109994"] Very cool!! I've often thought about how someone would do this at home and how the mold would be made. My grandpa has owned and still runs a little plaster figurine shop for 40+ years where he makes tons of fiberglass resin molds and silicone molds to pour his plaster into. I worked in his shop through highschool, so this is pretty interesting to me! With your mold frame, are you going to build up the walls of the frame so that you can pour your resin over the full height of the stock, or are you going to do your mold in two halves, one at a time? I believe my grandpa's main molding method was to paint on layers and layers of liquid latex until it was about 1/8" thick. Depending on the shape, he would sometimes build in a seam along the edge so that the mold could be split open to get the figurine out easier. After the latex part was done, he would then create an outer shell of fiberglass and resin to support the latex mold when pouring in the plaster. He also built in a seam to the shell all the way around, so that the shell could be split in half and removed when the plaster set up and the mold was to be removed. [/QUOTE]
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