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Sorry for the delay, I had a bit of a medical thing that postponed my posting. This is a fairly basic info sheet on the different types of resin I use. My 325 is a little cloudy because it's old, but I figured it was good enough for these purposes.
All of these resins come in the small trial-size bottles, and all mix 1:1 by volume. Pretty much easy mode! Yes, there are other varieties of resin, but these are the ones I can speak of because they're what I have experience with.
All of these resins come in the small trial-size bottles, and all mix 1:1 by volume. Pretty much easy mode! Yes, there are other varieties of resin, but these are the ones I can speak of because they're what I have experience with.
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I have some other tutorials too about molding and casting, you can find them here. I promise it's not as scary as it sounds, I was intimidated at first too but it's really fairly simple.
http://www.smooth-on.com/
Don't get them from a distributor like Dick Blick, because you never know how long it's sat on their shelves, and these products have a shelf life! http://www.reynoldsam.com/ is also a good distributor, if they're local to your areas.
Don't get them from a distributor like Dick Blick, because you never know how long it's sat on their shelves, and these products have a shelf life! http://www.reynoldsam.com/ is also a good distributor, if they're local to your areas.
It depends how vibrant of a color you're looking for. I use 325 for making semi-translucent teeth and claws with the very tiniest amount of pigment, but I've not needed to cast anything in any other colors that are vibrant. It's designed to accept more pigments than the other two though, so I'd be hard-pressed to think it couldn't get good, solid colors using proper resin pigments.
All three of these are about equivalent, in those regards. You can add fillers such as fiberglass shreds or glass microbeads to decrease weight, but I've never found it necessary and they seem like more trouble than they're worth. I cast to between 1/4-1/3" thickness, and I can bounce these bases off the floor with no issue.
Oh no, not at all! Are you doing an animal face or something flatter? The natural curves of the faces provide structural integrity, and even my largest, thickest bases are under 1lb of weight. If you err on the side of caution and aim for 1/3" thickness, you'd have to slam it over a corner or something to do any damage.
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