Casting Sculpey couple of questions

[spazzy]

Hi, I am VERY new to sculpting, and had a couple questions.

I will be trying out sculpey first, can you make a cast of a cured sculpey statue? How much detail gets lost? is there shrinkage and what is the best way to avoid it. What is the best material to use as a mold? and what is the best type of resin to use to make the cast?

I got a lot of info from Tim Bruckner's book popsculture (awesome by the way) but he sculpts a rough casts it in wax details the wax and than makes a mold of the wax and casts in resin, I am trying to avoid the wax part of this process.


Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!


First project is underway, will show pics soon! Very excited about it

 

[Cheungkinmen]

Everything you need you will find in www.smooth-on.com .

There are different types of resin, rubber silicones and stuff, and people around this forum tend to use different methods for sculping to casting.

Here's a few guides you could use:

https://www.paint-sculpt.com/tutorials/mold-making-tutorial/mold-making-tutorial-overview.html

https://www.paint-sculpt.com/tutori...ial/casting-and-assembly-tutorial-part-1.html

The best way to find out what you need is experimenting.

 

[spazzy]

Awesome, thanks!

Yeah I am learning quick that you have to experiment.