Casting resins: molding technique and tutorials

[Renegade]

For quite a while now I'm thinking of doing some HM (Home-Made) resins. Although we have great tutorial here on AF written by Dag56, but I was looking some more techniques. I found this:
http://www.alumilite.com/howto.cfm?ID=14

Also check the menu on the left. I found it very useful and I'm definitely giving it a try

[SchuberT]

thanks a lot for that! looks pretty cool to me!

btw this one may be better for our purposes... pretty much the same

http://www.alumilite.com/howto.cfm?ID=6

[JBarry]

Awesome site! Thanks bro. I've always wanted to know if that could be done. I must have overlooked the AF tutorial. I own it now Really, thanks. Great info.

J. Barry

[Renegade]

Glad to help
About the AF (dag65) tutorial. Here you can check the First Part and the Second Part

[JBarry]

Thanks Renegade. 'preciate it.

J. Barry

[ProSStreet]

Cool!, added to favorites.

[bigford550]

very cool. NOW heow's going to be first to try it??

[Honoturtle]

Excellent link! Should be useful.

[bvia]

I used Dag's tutorial (and another one from a sculptor's website) to finally begin casting my own stuff. I got the Smooth-On Silicone Super Sampler set (under $30.00)

http://www.smooth-on.com/Getting%20Started.asp

and was casting within days of receiving it. I'll take some pics of my molds and castings if anyone is interested, but it really is as simple as Dag makes it out to be. The only trick is making sure to throughly mix the rubber & resin and to make sure you don't lock your molds (multipiece only).

Since the Smooth-On is 1:1 for both the OOMOO 30 and the SmoothCast 300 no scales are necessary. All you need is the master or the talent to create one!

Bill

[bigford550]

i realy want to take a 1/24 saleen s7r and try to
cast it. but why go through all the hassle, how
much better could you make the car in resin
as it is in diecast????

[Renegade]

It's not really the matter of making it better. I would look on resins as making 'spare' resins/parts. That way you get more 'free space' for experimenting and don't get any headaches if you accidently destroy resin.
Hmm, this is written al little bit confusing - anyway that's my point of view of making home resins.

[JBarry]

Originally Posted by bvia

I got the Smooth-On Silicone Super Sampler set (under $30.00)

http://www.smooth-on.com/Getting%20Started.asp

Bill

I just ordered the same kit Bill. Looks great for a starter kit. Thanks for the infos.

J. Barry

[bvia]

Originally Posted by Renegade

It's not really the matter of making it better. I would look on resins as making 'spare' resins/parts. That way you get more 'free space' for experimenting and don't get any headaches if you accidently destroy resin.
Hmm, this is written al little bit confusing - anyway that's my point of view of making home resins.

Yeah, what he said!

So far I've used it to make a mold of (and cast copies of) an electronic box, some wheels for my 1:43rd Bentley and Audi R8C, copied some BBS wheels and tires to replace the ones in the Revell C5R kits and made some copies of my somewhat-scratchbuilt 5 spoke Speedline's for my ongoing Ferrari F50 GT1 project.

So instead of destroying or having to buy (or have machined!) a set of wheels, or misc. parts, I can now simply create a copy and work on that, saving the master part from destruction!

hth,
Bill

[bvia]

Originally Posted by JBarry

I just ordered the same kit Bill. Looks great for a starter kit. Thanks for the infos.

J. Barry

J,
no problem and glad to help. If you want some more info,etc... just PM me.

Bill