Mold Making and Resin Casting Your Own Sculpted Miniatures - Part 1

[thugg4lif]

I just got the kit, highly recommend it!

[kennyb0y1597]

hey cant you just put the whole set in ???

[frogboys2]

how many figures can u make with that set?

[washaway]

oh good we bought the same kit, my FW ironclad is excitd for brothers.

[boyzie2000uk]

Are you able to clean the syringes after use or are they one use? I imagine the resin sets inside the syringe?

[4everUself]

thank you so much for sharing this, I do have one question though, what if I wanted to make something that's hollow, like a ball jointed figure, it has to be hollow so the elastic strings pass through the body parts, what would you recommend?

[RallenXai]

So Xander, do you think this would work with making custon lego bricks? I'm a very experianced builder, and one thing that gets on my nerves sometimes is the fact that there arent any 1x5, 2x5, 1x7, 2x7 and so on and so fourth. So it is now my responsability to make them available. This series helped alot and I would gladly appreciate it if you could respond to this message. Again, thanks for the videos and I hope you keep making them. -RallenXai

[540derick]

How do you mold LEGOS!?

[GraandMasterWalrusz]

@540derick Using legos to mold legos?!

Madness!

Like using machines to make machines!

[julianaguilera]

where do you get your syringes?

[kentsmedblom]

Could you answer this, if your doing a big miniature, with spikes and things, im not worried about the air bubbles in the mini after casting cause there are a few ways to deal with that but what about a mini that has lots of levels and things an example is say google a kroot hound, the legs are sometimes really far apart and in strange shapes and their hair is all spikey, it seems to me a 3 or 4 part mould is the only way other than cutting your mini, i dont see how a 2 part can :( please help! 

[mgm96]

how many 30mm minis can you cast with the plastic mix provided aproximately? thaks awsome tutorial!

[ninjaseatvegies]

can u use automobile epoxy instead of the silicon for making the mold?

[archrom1]

Hun legos will not work

[joomunje]

so u can use this to make free warhammer?

[LakeKeta]

@joomunje warhammer minuatures are copyrightet,its illegal to do that. this is ment to cast the miniatures you did yourself.

[legoprime2000]

2:35 is it include or extra? is it the bottem when you´re making the first silikon stepp??? could i use it more than one times???

[kreeperrock]

Just had a thought if i take a games workshop figure and cast my own of it, if they found out theyre going to sue me aren't they. Cuz like GW love their lawsuits

[blacktemplars300]

@kreeperrock nope i asked at my store and they said they only sue if ur making money out of it with out there permission

[darthspeaks]

Hey Xander, do you have a link to a website the sells the best resin casting material and the best resin inexpensively? I wish to create an 'army' of my own sculpted work for my nephew (alien tanks and other vehicles). I also make walkers and mech stuff parts for him and he so loves my work. But I have been doing everything in skulpy bakable clay. I would really like to get into resin for the greater detail. Is the resin very viscous?

[captainfabian]

Can you make a rubber mold using plastic models? Or will the plastic melt? When resin cures it produces a lot of heat sure. But I doubt the same happens when the rubber cures.

[IvoIlic]

Note to everyone mold release is extremely toxic. If you use it without protection it will coat your eyes in plastic and give you cancer no joke

[AgeOfReclamation]

THIS PROCESS WILL MELT PLASTIC MODELS

[TheZingbaby]

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch dude!

[afterimagedan]

Question: How many points of resin and mold can this make? I can't find the info anywhere. I was considering buying the resin and mold making stuff separately and in larger quantities if this has too little in the box. Thanks! Best videos ever.

[45Highroller]

is it stealing if you reproduce warhammer minis but dont sell them?

[AgeOfReclamation]

@45Highroller

i tried this with some space marines and it utterly destroyed them.

[geraint960]

Do you know where I can get it in the UK without paying rediculous postage

[boomstick5]

What is the website that you can buy this?

[XanderXereus]

@boomstick5 I hate to say it, but you win the youtube n00b award! :P

Check the "more info" link at the right for the notes. ;)

[carbonbw]

Great vid, thanx for the valuable info.

[sherrilenett]

AWESOME! =]

[QAeternus]

Is this silicone appropriate for casting with pewter?

Ie. Is it heat resistant?

[phookadude]

Room temperature vucanising has nothing to do with the set up temp, it's a process where the rubber turns into a hard flexible substance. You used to use sheets of raw latex rubber clamped around your master and bake them to vucanise them. The casting resin isn't rtv at all.

Also you need to use play that is specially made for use with the rtv rubber or it will prevent it from setting up, so you have to get it from the rubber supplier.

[lebalonrouge]

is this kit suitable to use when using a plastic master?

[goth2be453]

why the hell would you want to make mold?... -.- it's nasty fuzzy and green! pleh!!!

[jdmchaos1]

great job dude.i was wondering whats the name of that clay you used to hold mini's?and i noticed that when you sucked up resin it seems that air got in.how many bubbles show up in finished product?

[MarchoftheMuffins]

Using lego for years now with oil clay, but until now restricted to plaster molds severely limits the amount of detail you can acheive. Love your tutorials as a former miniatures wargamer and painter i must say your videos have helped in my model work.

[brockhemming]

Lego! Brilliant! I've been using foam core and hot glue for a while now.. pain in the arse

[machinezerosixty]

DUDE, thank you so much, I'm about to get into all this and a video really cleared up alot of the questions i had, GREAT idea with the syringe 5'd the whole series, fav'ed and subscribed /bow

[XanderXereus]

Glad I could be of help! Share the vids with others. ;)

[mister3cho]

5/5

Very good video!

your friend is a good sculptor too

[viatus]

Awsome, not only are you back making vids...there good ones XD

[matty0l214]

Glad to have you back

[XanderXereus]

Good to be back! :)

[musicmasterliam]

I doubt he is going to sell the reproduced minis.

[jack037907]

law forbids this, good idea though

[XanderXereus]

The miniatures I am replicating were designed and scratch sculpted by my friend. I do explain that in the video, did you watch it all?

[Darius12235]

i hope you do know that recasting others figures is illegal and you should mention that so people wouldnt start copying GW stuff. If a gaming club would find out about that you would get banned. If you start selling those they can sue youfor copyright infrigment and you can actually go to jail for that even tho it may look silly at first but its true.

[XanderXereus]

There is nothing illegal about what I am doing. These miniatures were sculpted by my friend, and I have his expressed permission to make molds and casts of them.

GW does not have a monopoly on producing miniatures. Molding and casting is an essential skill for any miniature collector. If I wanted to sell the casts I create in this series I need only ask my friend, the creator of these sculpts.

[asasquatch]

Dead on. In the US you can recreate any original work with the permission of the copyright owner (the maker of the original work).

As for the video, THANKS! I have been thinking of recreating a few sculpts that I did, and was not really sure how to go about doing it. I have heard good things about easy flow 60 as a two part resin...and the stuff seems to be TOUGH.

Again, thanks for the great video series. I found it very informative.

[OddballGuy13]

You only need permission if you are going to sell them.

[Darius12235]

awesome!

[XanderXereus]

Thanks Darius. I went to make part 2, and mid-way through recording I ran out of camera battery! I should hopefully get it done today.