i want to know how i could make a homemade easy mold to make stuff with polymer clay... anybody has any ideas??
2007-12-28 08:13:32 · 4 answers · asked by fresh 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Sculpture
Do you need a mold because you've sculpted something and you now want to make it over and over again?
One super easy way that I can think of off the top of my head would be to buy one of those kits to make a mold of a baby's hand and stick your item in there instead of a hand. They are fairly inexpensive and it's a silicone-type material. They sell them in just about every craft store there is.
I am sure you can purchase silicone by itself too to create molds, but I am not sure how to go about making a mold.
Heh, you can probably even make a mold out of polymer clay itself. I work with fimo mainly, but I think it would probably work!
2007-12-28 09:21:17 · answer #1 · answered by micropreemiemommy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think part of the problem is going to be the stiffness of Sculpy. If you can make the shape so it releases or arrange the pieces of the mold properly, plaster of paris would be the best choice. Plaster is mixed as a powder in water to make a thick liquid, so you make a dam around the item to be copied, then pour the mixed plaster in and wait a few minutes until it gets hard and longer until it is dry. If the piece is complicated you may have to arrange dividers on the original and make a 2 or 3 piece mold or fill part of the original to make a good release then carve the copy. See books or Internet on Plaster Casting.
The other choices are silicone (RTV) casting compounds, which are fairly expensive and latex mold compound, which is painted on with layers and backed with plaster, but both of these are soft - which is great for complicated objects - so sculpy would probably distort them in being pressed in place.
2007-12-29 02:04:38 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 12:05:17 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
with art stuff
2007-12-28 08:16:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋