Hello, everybody!
I sculpt as a hobby, but trying to go professional. My figures are about 8'' (20 cm) high and 3'' (8 cm) wide, made out of either natural clay (red or white, air-dried) , or Faber Castell's children's modelling clay (wax-based, never-hardening) -- "plasticine", I believe? Not sure how it's called in English, as it's not my native language.
I've done some simple natural clay molding and casting before. I'm, however, completely new to any other kind of molding, and to resin casting. Never done it. But I'd really like to resin cast my (future) figures. I also would like to paint and varnish/coat my finished resin pieces, making them as professional-looking and durable as possible. I looked this up a bit, but I'm still unsure of the best way to do it. The main thing is that the final piece has to be of hard resin, and paintable.
Objectively:
1. Should my original figures be sculpted out of air-dried clay or plasticine? Or out of something else, and if so, what?
2. Should the mold be made out of silicone? If yes, any particular tips? If not, out of what then?
3. Any particular tip on the resin casting itself?
4. Any particular tip on the painting and finishing?
I know there are tons of tutorials online. I'm just wondering if someone has some specific tips, or some warning, like "it's never going to work out like this because of 'x' reason, you should instead do 'y'".
Thank you.
I sculpt as a hobby, but trying to go professional. My figures are about 8'' (20 cm) high and 3'' (8 cm) wide, made out of either natural clay (red or white, air-dried) , or Faber Castell's children's modelling clay (wax-based, never-hardening) -- "plasticine", I believe? Not sure how it's called in English, as it's not my native language.
I've done some simple natural clay molding and casting before. I'm, however, completely new to any other kind of molding, and to resin casting. Never done it. But I'd really like to resin cast my (future) figures. I also would like to paint and varnish/coat my finished resin pieces, making them as professional-looking and durable as possible. I looked this up a bit, but I'm still unsure of the best way to do it. The main thing is that the final piece has to be of hard resin, and paintable.
Objectively:
1. Should my original figures be sculpted out of air-dried clay or plasticine? Or out of something else, and if so, what?
2. Should the mold be made out of silicone? If yes, any particular tips? If not, out of what then?
3. Any particular tip on the resin casting itself?
4. Any particular tip on the painting and finishing?
I know there are tons of tutorials online. I'm just wondering if someone has some specific tips, or some warning, like "it's never going to work out like this because of 'x' reason, you should instead do 'y'".
Thank you.
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