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Post by beetlewing on Oct 24, 2014 21:59:53 GMT
we're talking about 2 diff things - I thought he meant as if he wanted to produce multiple copies of the same thing - like a batch of crates, doors, or w/e. 2part silicon is stunningly durable. The original molds he's using he bought, and they're not made of 2-part silicone... so he was worried about ruining them by putting them in the oven to make sculpey casts. Pulling the sculpey out and then baking it leaves distorted objects.
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Post by adamantinedragon on Oct 25, 2014 0:38:29 GMT
Bruce uses two part silicon molding materials to make his molds. It comes in an A and B set of bottles that you mix 50/50 and then cures into the final shape. I don't know if you are trying to say that the molds are not two separte final molds that you use together, which is a common technique for molding 3D shapes with no flat sides. But technically the molds in question here are made from two-part silicon.
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Post by beetlewing on Oct 25, 2014 6:10:55 GMT
Ah, seems I misunderstood something too then
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Post by skunkape on Oct 28, 2014 17:50:59 GMT
The mold material is correct for Bruce's molds, also, you normally pour the material into the mold as they are 1 part molds so the bottom edge of what you cast is flat, no pattern. Yes, when I pull the Sculpey out, it can deform while de-molding, but if I leave it to set up overnight, it does become a little easier to work with!
Now I need to lay the pieces out on some black foamcore I have and take some photos of them. I hope to do that tonight and then post the images. Since they are made of white Sculpey, I figure the black foamcore will display them well!
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Post by skunkape on Oct 29, 2014 2:27:25 GMT
So here are the pictures of the Sculpey after it has been baked. It really came out very nicely, even with the little deformation that occurred. This was just out of the oven. This was arranged on a piece of black foamcore. Now I need to get to work making tiles out of this stuff!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 23:25:21 GMT
They look great! I got to try that.
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Post by adamantinedragon on Oct 29, 2014 23:31:08 GMT
My only concern is that is a lot of Sculpey clay, and while it's pretty cheap, it's a lot more expensive than plaster, even dental plasters.
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Post by furfle on Oct 30, 2014 0:14:45 GMT
beautiful
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Post by adamantinedragon on Oct 30, 2014 4:29:31 GMT
This is making me think about doing a paper-thin bit of Sculpey Clay, pushing it into the mold, cooking it, then filling the bulk with Hydrostone. If it works it would end up with a mostly Hydrostone block, with a thin skin of baked Sculpey that would keep it from chipping.
I had considered doing the same thing with resin, but resin is even more expensive than Sculpey and would only fill the bottom of the block, with Sculpey I should be able to have it come up the sides as well.
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Post by skunkape on Oct 30, 2014 15:29:03 GMT
This is making me think about doing a paper-thin bit of Sculpey Clay, pushing it into the mold, cooking it, then filling the bulk with Hydrostone. If it works it would end up with a mostly Hydrostone block, with a thin skin of baked Sculpey that would keep it from chipping. I had considered doing the same thing with resin, but resin is even more expensive than Sculpey and would only fill the bottom of the block, with Sculpey I should be able to have it come up the sides as well. That's a great idea. You could also use an expanding foam to fill the void in the Sculpey! Course, you'd have to trim the foam once it set! My Sculpey ended up being cheaper than Hydrostone cuz I had a 40% off coupon, but that's the only reason!
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Post by adamantinedragon on Oct 30, 2014 16:32:07 GMT
If the cost for Sculpey and Hydrostone are more or less the same that I have, even a 40% discount won't be close to as cheap as Hydrostone. A 50 lb sack of Hydrostone probably comes out to about 75 lbs of cured blocks at $35 or so. Even normal Sculpey is about $7.50 a pound, 40% off that would still be $4/ lb, which would be about 8 times the cost of Hydrostone.
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Post by skunkape on Oct 30, 2014 17:08:48 GMT
Unfortunately, I haven't found anyplace in my area that I can get Hyrdostone from, so I've got to get it shipped to me! That's where it becomes more expensive! I'll need to look around again as someone my stock it in the area, but I pay almost as much to ship the 50lb sack to my house as I pay for the sack.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Nov 11, 2014 8:17:13 GMT
ditch sculpting then, foamcore and cardboard is all we really need !!! 8)
going back to the original question... Q: how many doors is enough ? A: after meddling with door making and finding room for it in my small boxes. which actually doubled in size now. i figured how much i would need... i'd say it depends on many factors, but the reality is. im not showing the whole map ever. i'm actually showing only 2-3 rooms at most at a time. so two 2 square stone doors, two 2 square strong wooden door, and about four 2 square normal doors along with about 1 or 2 special doors is more then enough for me.
so yeah about 10 doors is enough for any games. 4 x regular door 2 x strong wooden door 2 x stone door 1 x portcullis 1 x whatever you can think of !
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