Micksterbat
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Can Sculpey Be Used for a Mold?
Can a mold made of Sculpey be used to cast small latex pieces? :huh
Any help is much appreciated.
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8/23/2004, 5:04 pm
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youngbat
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Re: Quick Sculpey Question?
Problem is that the water in slip latex has nowhere to go, the latex exposed to the air start to cure, trapping or sealing the latex in like you put the latex in a jar and put a lid on it.
Plaster has water absorbent properties, so it will immediately form a skin against the wall of the mold. let it sit in the mold for an hour or however thick you want it to be then pour out the excess, let the skinned area dry out overnight.
You could get a skin from a sculpy mold but only if you applied thin layers at a time, hit it with hot air. but what a pain. Sculpy is also pretty expensive, so consider plaster.
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8/23/2004, 6:11 pm
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Re: Quick Sculpey Question?
That's an interesting question. In the past I experimented with this and had a certain degree of success....so yes,kind of.
I used resin and not latex and it did work. I was attempting to make an accurate miniature of my drum kit and sculpted the chrome lugs...the hardware that surrounds each drum. I sculpted the original,pushed into a strip of sculpey and poured resin in. When it cured,I peeled the sculpey from away. To make more,I flattened out the clay and just pushed the original into it again. I did about ten at a time. I never got to finish it or even got too far into it,but the pieces I started came out realy good.
Try it :)
Also keep in mind that these pieces were very small....maybe twice the size of a match-head.
John :flapbat
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8/23/2004, 6:23 pm
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Re: Quick Sculpey Question?
I made a knee cap mold out of Super Sculpy and it worked fine. A knee cap IS a small part though.
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8/23/2004, 8:42 pm
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Re: Quick Sculpey Question?
You could always make the impression in Sculpey and then cast that in plaster and then cast a negative, then cast that in latex.... a lot of steps whew! :coffee
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8/24/2004, 10:56 am
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