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<blockquote data-quote="pogre" data-source="post: 2738140" data-attributes="member: 6588"><p>All pictures are thumbnail link to larger photos.</p><p></p><p><strong>Making Pewter Miniatures From RTV Molds (Part Two)</strong></p><p></p><p>Welcome to part 2 of creating RTV molds wherein pogre curses a great deal.</p><p></p><p>My first task was to break the mold frames apart to check out how things went. You can see in the picture below where the RTV rubber met the synthetic clay.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_05.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_05_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Buried somewhere in that odd sandwich is our figure. So I need to peel the clay off. Ahhh, there he is our happy nyrf’s wizard. He still has some clay stuck to him, but the mold looks very good.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_06.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_06_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>I use a very soft bristled toothbrush to clean the clay and stray rtv off of the model. Now this is pretty dull work, but it is critical to getting a clean mold.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_07.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_07_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>I finish peeling the clay off of the other molds and gather up the clay for use on the next set of molds.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_08.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_08_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Of the three molds, I was most pleased with nyrf’s wizard’s body mold – it looks very clean. The arms were so-so. Something used in the wrench arm reacted to the rtv in an odd way – I’m not sure what happened. It looks like I may have lost a small wire off of the arm or something. The other arm and the wizard’s helper arm look fine. We will see how they cast.</p><p></p><p>The next step is to reseat the figures in the half molds and coat them with mold release. The blurry picture of this below is due to one handed camera shooting <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_09.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_09_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Next up is a process I described in part one, but this time I have a picture or two thans to the wife. First coating the figures with rtv using a brush.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_10.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_10_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Then slowly pouring the molds.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_11.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_11_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Now I just have to wait until tomorrow to start working on the whole mold.</p><p></p><p>In part three I will cover cutting and preparing the molds for casting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pogre, post: 2738140, member: 6588"] All pictures are thumbnail link to larger photos. [b]Making Pewter Miniatures From RTV Molds (Part Two)[/b] Welcome to part 2 of creating RTV molds wherein pogre curses a great deal. My first task was to break the mold frames apart to check out how things went. You can see in the picture below where the RTV rubber met the synthetic clay. [URL=http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_05.jpg][IMG]http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_05_th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Buried somewhere in that odd sandwich is our figure. So I need to peel the clay off. Ahhh, there he is our happy nyrf’s wizard. He still has some clay stuck to him, but the mold looks very good. [URL=http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_06.jpg][IMG]http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_06_th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I use a very soft bristled toothbrush to clean the clay and stray rtv off of the model. Now this is pretty dull work, but it is critical to getting a clean mold. [URL=http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_07.jpg][IMG]http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_07_th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I finish peeling the clay off of the other molds and gather up the clay for use on the next set of molds. [URL=http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_08.jpg][IMG]http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_08_th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Of the three molds, I was most pleased with nyrf’s wizard’s body mold – it looks very clean. The arms were so-so. Something used in the wrench arm reacted to the rtv in an odd way – I’m not sure what happened. It looks like I may have lost a small wire off of the arm or something. The other arm and the wizard’s helper arm look fine. We will see how they cast. The next step is to reseat the figures in the half molds and coat them with mold release. The blurry picture of this below is due to one handed camera shooting ;) [URL=http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_09.jpg][IMG]http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_09_th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Next up is a process I described in part one, but this time I have a picture or two thans to the wife. First coating the figures with rtv using a brush. [URL=http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_10.jpg][IMG]http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_10_th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Then slowly pouring the molds. [URL=http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_11.jpg][IMG]http://www.pogre.com/making_molds_11_th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Now I just have to wait until tomorrow to start working on the whole mold. In part three I will cover cutting and preparing the molds for casting. [/QUOTE]
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