 So I've tried to film this video so many times and I just have to do it and I'm really scared to do it And I don't know what's gonna happen, but we're gonna try and Cast a medallion. I'm completely self-teaching. I've watched a couple tutorials. I've asked a lot of questions This particular horse his name is Aero. I sculpted him out of polymer clay and he's in primer I was told that primer does not affect the mold making process But I want to cast him and sell him to my followers. So we're gonna try that I don't know how this is gonna go. I have a pair of rubber gloves so that I don't get this in my skin and die I have mixing sticks because you need to mix the thing. I have plastic cups to put it in I do have some things of just clay because I was told that you seal the edge of the mold with clay I just got this box This kit which is the mold making kit that they sold at the store And I just kind of guessed that that's what I would need. The guys sort of recommended it comes with smooth cast 300 Resin, boomo 30, and I'm not sure that this is actually the best thing, but we'll try it and then I have Super seal and ease repellent. I don't know what just came with it We came with a bunch of really cheesy graphics to go with this cheesy graphics box Then my boyfriend also got me this box of stuff. What's in the box is ease release 200 dragon skin, which is different Silicone the same stuff. So I have two things to smooth cast. I'm gonna use the kind of crappy cast Casting silicone or whatever to just test it because I really don't know how this is gonna go We need to make him a mold though first and foremost I'm just gonna make it out of foam core because I have some extra foam core. I can't see it going wrong I've seen people casting cardboard in that's the same thing So here I am taking foam core board and making a mold box for the medallion and using a hot glue gun to Form it all together You want to make sure that the edges are tall enough that the medallion will be covered with silicone But not too tall that they're just gonna get in your way Once all the edges are stuck down you want to fill all of the seams with a lot of hot glue I also tried putting a little bit of this polymer clay in there to seal up the edges more But I found it wasn't needed then I'm going to just hot glue the medallion into the base of the box So what I learned here today is that the umu silicone rubber is A dry time of six hours and the dragon skin is a dry time of four hours So I'm just gonna try this one I'm just gonna leave it overnight. So it's okay. I will check it in the morning So putting on my gloves reading the directions it said to stir each part of this stuff very well and then Mix them together over the span of two minutes So I use a separate stick for each one so that they do not get contaminated I found the part B super easy to stir. It was a very liquid consistency And it made a huge mess already and the part a was almost like bubble gum It looked like bubble gum in its color, but it was very very tacky and a lot more sticky So it was a little bit harder to mix Then I had us thought that I didn't know how much to use for this So I put one of the cups and filled it with a bunch of buttons that I found Which would be the same volume as the amount of silicone I would need So then I poured them into the medallion box and they covered the whole thing Perfectly, so I assumed that that was how much I needed to mix So you want to pour one part of the silicone into one plastic cup and the other part of the silicone into a separate plastic cup And you basically just have to eye line the levels making sure that they look Approximately the same in height Then you stir them together so that a was much easier to pour So I poured that into the B cup and set a timer for two hours Which was supposed to be two minutes and I realized that is a certain part of the mixing stage But I found that two minutes was not enough time and there was still some blue and pink showing through not all of it Was completely purple And then I just went ham and poured it into the medallion cast For shadowing on this event, this cast did not work So disregard everything that I just did because I did it all completely wrong Ta-da, I have no idea if it worked. I guess we'll just have to check it tomorrow It's been more than six hours because I left it completely overnight It feels slippery, which is not what I was anticipating and we caught a bug The one thing that I forgot to do is put any form of release agent or anything on the horse So I'm hoping that it comes out because I realized that after I did the whole thing and that really sucks So I'm just gonna break the mold to get it out. I think that's the easiest way to do this The cast out of this because it looks too Bubbly So the consensus is that this was no good and it did not work There's no way I can cast this it's going to cause a ton of issues in the resin Here I am removing the sculpture from the molding box And I'm being extra careful not to do this too quickly so that I don't break the sculpture Mood 30 is not a good product to use and I should switch to a higher grade Product so we're just gonna try it again with the image I'm gonna try it once more with that see if I can get a better result if I can't I'll switch to the other brand But this is all learning curve. So now I'm making the second batch I did the same process of mixing everything really well But I made sure to really mix the silicone so that all of it was completely purple I didn't follow the two-minute rule and I did the stirring in a process of not necessarily stirring it Folding it over on itself so that you get the least amount of air bubbles possible I was not thinking about air bubbles. None of the videos had air bubble recommendations in them So I was going off of the tutorials that were given with this product Then I was told to paint on the silicone So I just take this really crappy brush that I bought and I'm going to paint on That silicone in a light layer You don't want to cake on too much of it and you want to apply the silicone in a stippling action You're not really painting it on but you're dabbing it on Here you can hear my mom in the background actually smacking the cup of silicone to try and get the bubbles out I Realized that there was some bubbles already showing up So I was just tapping the mold and this really helps get the air bubbles to the surface and The painting method really helps because you can totally see the bubbles forming and that you can pop them right away And paint in all of those little grooves to get the best cast possible Then for the pouring action, I was told to hold it very high create a very small Stream and hold the cup in an angle so that there was the least amount of air bubbles possible Now this particular batch of silicone felt a lot more gooey than the first one It was a lot more tacky and consistency it flowed pretty good from a high stream And then at a point I actually stood up so that the stream was extra high And I kind of tried to keep it in one spot and just let the silicone Freeform onto the horse as it pleased Then as things got towards the end of the cup I started moving it into the other corners But the complete medallion was already fully covered by the silicone So the excess was just going into the far corners of the mold then after that was done I made sure to bang the mold quite a few times. I sat there and Really smacked it against the table Then I popped some of the surface bubbles with a pin This isn't really necessary because this is the back of the mold, but I just did it anyways Alright, so hopefully this one works. So it's a slightly different method that my friend was suggesting So this is the second mold and we'll see what we end up with but Overall it's pretty solid So then for the resin it said to shake both parts very vigorously. So I did so And then same method pouring one part into one cup the second part into another cup and eyeballing the levels of the cup and Pouring them together. They were quite fizzy because of all of the shaking that I did and the stuffsters and pours a lot easier than the silicone It was a very thin consistency very liquidy So once it was ready I kind of just poured it in and tried it out It poured a lot easier, but just letting it freeform into the mold as it pleased Then I was told to take a brush and kind of paint the inside of the Cast or against the mold so that noble bowls would be getting on the surface of the mold I made too much resin. So I ended up pouring the crappy Cast as well, but you can see the resin works really quickly. It only takes about 10 minutes to cure Resin is it actually totally heats up? It's a warm to the touch So it's already cured enough where I can touch it I'm gently pulling the sculpture out of the mold because the ear is actually Fully casted around so if I was just to rip this out straight, I would probably break the ear off. Oh My god, I made a cast Tada Two of them came out. They're not great, but they came out So I'm gonna try another one and kind of cram some of that resin into his ear because it didn't like work enough So I'm just gonna like cut off this edge because I was doing getting weird things happen on the back So I'm just gonna try and take a knife I found with this second cast because I had already hot glued it once and then hot glued it a second time into the Mold there was a slight raise So some of the silicone was actually going underneath the model and it created quite a lip that I had to Remove out of the silicone mold. So I'm actually using the mixing stick and then I used a toothpick to prod the Resin around the mold. This was kind of an alternative method to using the paintbrush So his ear is still not coming out, which leads me to believe that the mold is actually not good in there So I could very well just repair the ear for all of these it wouldn't take very long So all in all, it's been a really good experience. I learned a lot I still have a lot to learn as I learned more about Kind of tips techniques that I come up with I will let you guys know But for my first medallion, I'd say that this cast I turned out really well. We did establish what we wanted to establish was going from the original scopes to a Replicated cast so I would say that that's a success in itself. Thank you so much for watching and happy casting I also want to give a huge shout out to Raven Maddox of chrysalis studios She was answering all my questions throughout this process and giving me a ton of advice So I'd highly recommend checking out her work. She's an incredibly talented sculptor Please subscribe for weekly Wednesday uploads follow me on Instagram and Facebook at DJB studios Check out my website and sign up to my newsletter to be the first to know about permissions tutorials and sales pieces All of the tools used in this video are in the description below if you have any questions feel free to message me