Silicone Casting Fail
First silicone mold making attempt = fairly decisive failure. Fancy Silicone Platinum from Tap Plastics is too liquid for this project. Craft foam density is less than Silicone. Hence, it floats rather than sits at bottom of poured Silicone mixture. Not useful. Have flipped sculpt upside down to float on surface and attempt mold that way. Suspect not.
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I now have the holiest (in the sense of many holes, not in the sense of sacred) Silicone negative mold EVER. LOL! Apparently floating the craft foam original atop setting Silicone when it refuses to sink to the bottom and behave is NOT a useful alternative...particularly when you first tried to wipe the Silicone OFF the mold while still wet. Um. Yeah. Well, I didn't expect it to be usable. I just wanted to be sure that the Silicone WOULD set and did not interact oddly with craft foam for some reason. I may still use the hot glue to make a positive from it, just to use it for practice. It can be the Sith artifact that was chewed on by Pelko bugs while in storage at the bottom of a Temple basement.
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I now have the holiest (in the sense of many holes, not in the sense of sacred) Silicone negative mold EVER. LOL! Apparently floating the craft foam original atop setting Silicone when it refuses to sink to the bottom and behave is NOT a useful alternative...particularly when you first tried to wipe the Silicone OFF the mold while still wet. Um. Yeah. Well, I didn't expect it to be usable. I just wanted to be sure that the Silicone WOULD set and did not interact oddly with craft foam for some reason. I may still use the hot glue to make a positive from it, just to use it for practice. It can be the Sith artifact that was chewed on by Pelko bugs while in storage at the bottom of a Temple basement.