Relief : One part of mold.
Climber : Two part of mold.
Relief : One part of mold.
One part of mold : The mold from the tree. Casting in wax.
3D design object.
Working on surface before making a mold.
Finishing the surface with the paint.
Silicon mold. I used the "body double silk"
The supporting shell for silicon mold.
3D printing object.
Working on the subsurface before making a mold.This stage is very important. Clean up the surface execs the all the unnecessary texture.Put it on the plaster and sending the surface and make a smooth surface.
De-molding.
Silicon mold from 3D object.
Working on surface 3D print object.
Diving the section of the object.
Put silicon on the object.
Its very important that adding very thin coat. Because, it helps captured all the details.
After 3 or 4 silicon coats, sometimes adding the forms in the big gaps.
It helps level of the surface and save the materials as well.
After this adding more silicon 2 or three times.
Working on Flag. This object is made in fabric. using a special seal before adding the silicon. Get ready for next step.
The fist coat is very important. We want capture the all the original details .
Now, the half of the mold is done. get ready for next part of the mold.
De-molding. De-molding is always exciting part in mold making process.
Its necessary to make a two part of mold even the object is small. Because, The if the object has complicate design or has a lot of undercut, its hard to de-molding and possibly ruin the original design.
The first coat of silicon. Its going to be two part of the mold.
"Young Lady" this sculpture is made withe oil base clay. Before start the put on silicon, make sure that surfer free clay and seal.
The fist coat of the mold. Very thin coat and make sure that no bubbles and covered all the surface.
After put on silicon couple times, time to adding the shims. This will divide the mold to two sections. Follow the contour.
As you we can see the the line is following the curve of the images.
After 3 or 4 layer of the silicon, adding some mesh. It makes a strengthen the mold.
Adding the keys. The keys will hold the support the shells after finish the silicon part.
Two pars of the mold. Sometimes adding shims before put on silicon. It depending on the object of shapes and texture.
The first layer of the silicon. This one has a lot of texture. Very thin coat of silicon helps the capture the all the textures and makes less bubbles.
De-molding.
De-molding time. Capture the all the details. Clean up the edge of the mold and supporting mold.
Life casting.
preparing the one section of the mold.
Getting ready for second section of the mold.
plaster casting in the plaster mold.
This stage is 2/3 of the mold making process. Sometimes forgot to taking a photos. adding the mesh for strengthen the mold.
This image is toward to end of the silicon part of the mold. i am adding the keys for holding the support the shells.
End of the silicon part of the mold.
This two part of the of the hummingbird is a lot of texture and really thin object. I caste the wax in the mold getting ready for the bronze casting.
