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Smooth On brand mold making Kit

Debora59

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After trying less accurate forms of mold making, my husband encouraged me to try this mold making kit. It has almost every thing you need for the process in cluding an instructional DVD, or go online. It is extremely accurate and the mold will last a very long time if not forever, its quite durable. its the only thing I use now, I have made 10 to 15 molds or more, items I needed multiples of, for example: a house that needed 16 matching ornate door casings. The process works well even with ornate items. I have cast door casings, fireplaces, hard to find moldings, my 1/6 scale headboards, over doors, windows moldings, the list goes on. The mold is rubber and the pourable casting material is a plastic resin, I will be making another mold soon, so I will document the process and show you each step of the way. This kit costs about $50 thru art supply stores.

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Selkie

Thanks so much. Due to what we have seen so far, I'm assuming that the plastic resin product easily takes paint, glues, and varnishes. Do you use an oil base or water base for your finishes? What type of glue do you use - a solvent base or water base? I remember in the JP Morgan house you had some lovely wood looking furniture. Were these made with this product too? This is so exciting to learn.

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Debora59

Thanks so much. Due to what we have seen so far, I'm assuming that the plastic resin product easily takes paint, glues, and varnishes. Do you use an oil base or water base for your finishes? What type of glue do you use - a solvent base or water base? I remember in the JP Morgan house you had some lovely wood looking furniture. Were these made with this product too? This is so exciting to learn.

No, all my handmade furniture was made with wood. With the exception of the headboards for my 1/6 scale beds , Which I cast, sanded and then first spray painted the hardened plastic with the desired base color, then I hand painted an aged or antique look with other colors of paint, I don't think it would take stain. But I feel I accomplished a stain wood look. on my headboards. The armoires, side tables, desks and the rest of the beds themselves were all constructed of wood, I used the same glue for items cast that I used for any other DH projects, Aleens
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