Composimold has anyone ever used it...

[wildabeast]

I want to get into molding some of my scratchbuild props and possibly look at doing some runs, however I live in a townhouse with no garage or shop available and crappy Southern Alberta weather. A friend found this online. Says non toxic, fast curing, and reusable.....Has any one worked with it before?

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[Maelstrom]

I haven't, but that little vid on the site makes it look fairly promising.

 

[Maelstrom]

Decided to order some and try it out. Stay tuned.

 

[wildabeast]

Let me know how it goes...I will probably order at the end of the month....

 

[Stu Pidasso]

I's be very interested in this stuff as well. Reusable, you say? As in melt it, and re-mold something?

 

[Maelstrom]

That seems to be how it works. We'll find out, tho.

 

[fossies]

I bought some and tried casting and molding some things for wildabeast and so far they have turned out pretty good although I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to this type of thing.

 

[fossies]

I will be posting picture some time later today if possible.

 

[fossies]

I know these are not very good but this is the first cast I have ever done and given the inexperience they turned out fairly good. I then took the mold and popped it back in the microwave, melted it and cast something else. The resin is a two part urethane resin I bought from the same place. It is an ice tea looking color when mixed that cures off white. Its pretty durable. I mixed too much when I cast the head and the leftovers solidified into a block about the size of a hotel bar of soap and neither wildabeast nor I can break it with our hands and neither one of us are weaklings. I drilled out the head and it drills fairly easily.

 

[fossies]

There are pictures in my album.

Replica Prop Forum - fossies's Album: My First cast

 

[crackerjazz]

It's amazing how well that turned out, Fossies. I should probably give it a try myself.

 

[piehead]

Kind of looks like a high strength gelatine product. does look pretty good though.

 

[wildabeast]

Great stuff...saw it in person of course, superlight product

 

[Wes R]

I may have to look into this, especially if you can melt it back down to reuse it. i book marked their site for sure. Even if it costs a bit more than the normal stuff if i just want to do a one off of something i made this is perfect.

 

[corranhornjje]

Has anyone made any more progress with this? I was thinking of using this on a larger project where I needed to make a number of large molds but only needed a few castings from each then never to be used again.