Recent content by TheHeroOfCanton

Now that I've read more about his background my admiration has grown alot. That way of working really is something I aspire to, as was said, "work with what you love and you'll never work a day in your life!" He's clearly played his cards extremely well and mega kudos go to him for getting...

Yeh it's definately a P-40 Warhawk, I bet Revell have one in their lovely range of warbirds at 1/48, which would make a great base for conversion.

There's not much I can say that can fully describe how truly magnificent this piece is. Skills. Yes. He haz them. But I suspect that a more important factor in his abilities to produce these models is time, an enormous abundance of it. I dare say that given enough time, many of the people who's...

Nice paint job! What make is it?

Tamiya X19 Smoke acrylic paint :). THoC.

Well, I haven't used either of those products but for that size you'd probably be best off with whichever has the longer pot life so you can distress the moulds and get the bubbles out (judging by the bubbles in the moulds I'm guessing you don't have vacuum gear, not a problem :).) And also...

Thanks everyone she's really happy with the replies :). @Gwizah, if you do know people who'd buy this please me so I can point her in their direction, she still has all the moulds and I'm sure she'd love to sell some :).

Well I'm not sure exactly how to advise you on this particular problem, but for your future projects might I suggest you try sculpting in a polymer clay such as Sculpey Firm, Super sculpey or Fimo? They are really nice to work with and only harden when baked at 60+ degrees celcius. I sculpt...

Hi folks, I really, really wish I could take credit for this piece but it's not mine, it was made by my girlfriend :lol:. It was her final piece for her modelmaking degree in university, she's just about to graduate. It's so awesome I just had to share it with you guys. It's constructed...

Seconded. I use mould life all the time. I mostly buy Rencast FC 52 and Easyflow 60. I got 22kgs of Supersil 25 the other day - already used 15kgs of it, EEK!! They do loads of different resins and rubbers and they know everything there is to know about what they sell. Check out the stuff on...

I'll start work on some guides soon I think . I was going to write some anyway to help train new people in my mould shop - this will encourage me hehe. I'm afraid we don't have homedepot here in the UK, and I very much doubt our shops sell the same brands of resin. In my guides I will be...

Sounds great man you're on the right track. I'll be interested to see what you make :).

Sand is a good idea, a really good idea actually. When I've moved into my new workshop with the concrete floor I may just do that. As long as is wasnt going to get sucked into the pump....ouch!!

Contact adhesive would be a good bet, I can't think of any brands off the top of my head but they are around. Or you could try plasti-weld.

Well worth considering. What I've been doing today is just chucking bit of old mould and the bits of casts I don't need like reservoirs and gates etc. Bit by bit that will fill it up I reckon. Might take a while as I try not to over pour moulds so theres barely anythig to snap off when they come...