Basic skull casts?

[projectjordan]

Hi all

I'm looking to create a number of 1/6 pieces, so far I have a basic skull in baked sculpey.

Could I take a mould and cast a number of these in polyurethane resin, and then apply sculpey to them?

Would the sculpey stick to the cured resin?


Would the cued resin cope with being rebaked?

Cheers

Ryan

[MadMonster]

Yes, that works. I've done it many times, with skulls even.

[rgm501]

Originally Posted by MadMonster

Yes, that works. I've done it many times, with skulls even.

Really? I would have thought the resin would melt in the oven.. I would also worry about toxic fumes from the Rezin heating up.

Ryan, you could always push some aves apoxie sculpt into the molds.
I know you can bake aves with no worries.

[projectjordan]

cheers both

[MadMonster]

That's a good point rgm205. I hadn't thought about toxins. I use a separate oven for baking clay though, because even super sculpey will release some toxins if it gets too hot.

Resin will soften a little when it heats up, so if you tried to put a whole figure in the oven, the weak points would bend. Like ankles and what not. You wouldn't have to worry about that with a skull though. Also, the epoxy putties are basically resin with a filler to make them easy to handle, so cured resin behaves exactly the same as epoxy under heat.