Mold Making
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Fun with Resin and Rubber
This is what we made. Resin hands.
Dragon Skin a two-part mold rubber |
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This mold rubber is called "Dragon-skin" because it is so flexible.
See the little Sculpey hands disappearing slowly
into the liquid mold rubber!
Help! Help!
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later....
After the original sculpey hands have been removed
we mix up the resin (it's in two equal parts)
and pour the resin into the mold.
First the resin is clear- but then it turns white...
As the resin hardens, it heats up
(reminiscent of plaster-of-paris).
Then when the white resin cools down-
the hands can be de-molded
it takes around eight minutes.
These hands can be reproduced many times from the same mold.
They look like porcelain but they are much stronger.
Resin hands don't break if you drop them.
The white is just the natural color of the hardened resin-
it can be dyed or painted.
This is the first Wee Peeple Doll made with a hard head and hard hands-
and believe me, she is a hard-headed woman!
It is hard to tell that her head is not full of fluff.... that it's solid as a rock.
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Now then... About those mermaids....
The Mermaid Queen
The above photo shows three stages in the casting process:
1. the original brown model made of clay
2. the dragon-skin rubber mold and it's stiff supportive outer mold
3. the final white resin cast (center)
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The Mermaid figures above are studies for doll bodies
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Kandra Niagra, Dollmaker
PO Box 326
Smithville, Texas 78957
Phone: 512-332-6680
Email: bigkandra@aol.com
12/10
03/13
