7 MOULDING MATERIALS FOR CASTING SILICONE | MERMAID TAIL MAKING
Silicone is often used as a moulding material but I like to switch things up. After years of research, trial and error and a lot of silicone creations I combined a list of materials you can use to cast silicone in.
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These methods work best for all purpose/aquarium safe and platinum cure silicone (dragon skin).
I recommend using a mould release agent with most of these methods.
00:01 Intro
00:17 What I use the silicone for
00:30 Polymer clay
01:16 Plaster
01:49 Ad
02:04 Polymorph plastic
03:01 Plasticine
03:38 Plastic sand toys and containers
03:44 Resin
04:08 Silicone
I love using silicone for my arts and crafts projects - mermaid tails and creations. Making moulds FOR silicone instead of OUT of silicone. It's not a very popular crafting medium but I hope this video will help.
Methods ranking from best to worst (personal choice):
1) Polymer clay - easy to work with, durable moulds, easy unmoulding (shiny, glazed moulds)
2) Polymorph plastic - easy, quick, reusable, durable
3) Plaster - cheap, easy, picks up detail best, good for big projects (I'm not a fan of the texture)
4) Resin - (only experience with resin glazed moulds)
5) Plasticine - not the exact replicas, can be risky, quick, easy, cheap, reusable
6) Silicone (no experience moulding silicone in silicone) sounds risky but I've seen it done
7) Plastic sand toys - fun way if you find cool shapes, hard to customise
SILICONE VIDEO (NOT MINE but very informative):
• Casting Silicone Into Silicone (Gel-10 int...
1. Individual scales tutorial (polymer clay moulds):
• HOW TO MAKE INDIVIDUAL SCALES FOR A SILICO...
2. Plaster mould video:
• I FINALLY MADE A PROPER FLUKE MOLD | DIY S...
3. Polymorph plastic video: • How to Make Silicone Shells For Mermaid To...
4. Plasticine video: • DOES PLASTICINE REACT WITH SILICONE? MAKIN...
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