ksj
Well-Known Member
I have been trying to read through things and figure out what products to use to cast my hand and then do the Latex overly/build up on the hands.
Everything seems to indicate that Stan Winston's monstermakers.com is the bomb as far as high quality good product goes.
For certain ultracal sold there is the best bed for the actual casts.
I am having issues figuring out what product on there I should use to make the mould for the hand.
I do know that cardboard with a coating of some sort or just duct tape would work for the inside of the box and wood is an option for the box as well...
I also know that hand casting is a two part process as you have to do the top and then the bottom, but I was thinking what about doing a painted overlay on a live cast hand and then peeling it off some way.
Feet are a different story. You make a clay 1:1 model of it then cast that in ultracal. Then you pour your latex foam product in the created mould.
Heads are kind of the same way.
The problem is some of the vulcanized rubber product has this tendency to shrink as it cures...
Thoughts anyone?
Everything seems to indicate that Stan Winston's monstermakers.com is the bomb as far as high quality good product goes.
For certain ultracal sold there is the best bed for the actual casts.
I am having issues figuring out what product on there I should use to make the mould for the hand.
I do know that cardboard with a coating of some sort or just duct tape would work for the inside of the box and wood is an option for the box as well...
I also know that hand casting is a two part process as you have to do the top and then the bottom, but I was thinking what about doing a painted overlay on a live cast hand and then peeling it off some way.
Feet are a different story. You make a clay 1:1 model of it then cast that in ultracal. Then you pour your latex foam product in the created mould.
Heads are kind of the same way.
The problem is some of the vulcanized rubber product has this tendency to shrink as it cures...
Thoughts anyone?