pandabarnes
Active Member
I'm after some casting pointers as usual!
The whole story is below, but basically I'm casting a tiny microwave oven (American Hustle), and my castings are always missing a bit of detail.
Oven is about 2.5cm long. details about 0.5cm.
I'm taking the molds with mold-star 15 slow, then casting with smooth-cast 310.
Do I need a harder Silicone for the mold, or a different resing to cast with?
Thanks in advance.
*** All the gory details follow ***
I'm trying to make my girlfriend a science oven pendant for christmas, inspired by that great scene in American Hustle, which she loves.
Don't put metal in the science oven!
Anyway, I've made this tiny science oven, it's about 2.5 cm long, with small trims of about 0.5mm glued to it.
I'm not great at modelling but I'm happy with how it's going, it's looking close enough to the reference for a pendant.
My plan was to make it, make a mold and take a cast, refine/clean up where needed then take a final mold and cast the finished piece.
I'm on mold number two, cast number three, I've tried pushing the resin into the details with a syringe, but there's always a tiny bit missing and at this size, it's going to be impossible for me to fill it and still have straight, square lines.
I'm taking the molds with mold-star 15 slow, then casting with smooth-cast 310.
Thanks.
The whole story is below, but basically I'm casting a tiny microwave oven (American Hustle), and my castings are always missing a bit of detail.
Oven is about 2.5cm long. details about 0.5cm.
I'm taking the molds with mold-star 15 slow, then casting with smooth-cast 310.
Do I need a harder Silicone for the mold, or a different resing to cast with?
Thanks in advance.
*** All the gory details follow ***
I'm trying to make my girlfriend a science oven pendant for christmas, inspired by that great scene in American Hustle, which she loves.
Don't put metal in the science oven!
Anyway, I've made this tiny science oven, it's about 2.5 cm long, with small trims of about 0.5mm glued to it.
I'm not great at modelling but I'm happy with how it's going, it's looking close enough to the reference for a pendant.
My plan was to make it, make a mold and take a cast, refine/clean up where needed then take a final mold and cast the finished piece.
I'm on mold number two, cast number three, I've tried pushing the resin into the details with a syringe, but there's always a tiny bit missing and at this size, it's going to be impossible for me to fill it and still have straight, square lines.
I'm taking the molds with mold-star 15 slow, then casting with smooth-cast 310.
Thanks.