Some Casting Result

So last week's topic in my sculpting class was pour in resin in to the little mold I made two weeks ago. Since it was the first mold I ever made, there are few things didn't turn out well. The head mold didn't turn out well, however, the mold for the body turned out to be really well. So here are some pictures:

So here is the pic of the mold filled with resin, with tape wrapped around to keep the mold together from leaking...


And then take the pieces from the mold:


As we can see, the headband for the head didn't get casted properly, but the body turned out really well, except that i cut the leg too short...

So got time to play around with the mold, and somehow ended up with 5 pig heads on my table...







and with 4 bodies...



Note that some of the area didn't get casted well, especially the ears area.

However, one of the head I casted turned out good enough, just few small fix and stuff. So what I'm going to do now is going to fix up the one I'm happy with and make a new mold to fix few air bubble problems. Then hopefully I can start paint them if the casts turned out well with the new mold!

Err... Mold Making

So this week's topic in my sculpting class is about mold making, that means.... we get to make our on mold for my figures~! So, I decided to make the mold of Mr.Piggy! (Which is the starter figure in from Vance Project, click here)

The mold wax (the material for making the mold) I'm using is called Smooth-On Mold wax 40, is a type of silicon rubber, really great for mold making and no mold release agent required when removing the object from the mold. (somehow I can't find a good info page about it at this point)

So here we go:

First step, I use Mr.hobby's Casting Block to build up a wall around the parts to pour in the silicone.



Then mix up the silicone and pour it in, try to pour it from one corner, because it reduces the chances of bubbles building up around the kit. So after pouring, we have:



A block filled with silicone, which the parts inside. Note that there are bubbles flowing on top, but that's ok, because is trying to push out the air inside the mold.

And things don't always go right for the first time, same this case. Since I did not stablize the head strong enough, it started to flow while pouring...(half of the head was above the mold... looks like a man diving... with half of his head above the water) so we had to push the head down every time it starts to flow... until the silicone starts to settle.

So after 16 hours, the mold is fully dried. And guess what, the head didn't pop out!


By removing the blocks, I got...



A mold!

However, since the kind of mold I'm making only opens on one side, (so that it reduces the seam line while casting) it was pretty hard for me to take it out without breaking the parts. So this is what happened...

A mold:


With broken Mr.Piggy XD:



Which is not that bad, considering the fact that is the first time, and the mold turned out to be ok, especially for the body, and the damage is somewhat fixable.

So for next week's class, we will try to pour in resin in to the mold and cast it, hope the over all process will be a success!