Post #643829 by Gene S Morgan on Thu, Jul 12, 2012 8:54 PM

You start with a box a little bigger than your model. Using hot glue you attach your model to the bottom of the box. (Remember when I said a flat bottom was what you wanted. Now we know why. I tried this with a non flat model and the glue gave out and before the mold set it floated up to the top) Spray some sealer and mold release.

The mold stuff (I think that is the scientific name) comes in two different color which you mix together.

You mix them together and mix until it looks kinda purple.

Slowly pour it over your model ….. I used to do this kind of thing years ago and I must say they have really improved the mold making material over the years.

This is what the mold looks like with the original on top. Using the hot glue made it easy to get the model out of the box. You can see that the mold is a little rough around the back edge. That is because I am lousy with a glue gun and I got too much glue on and the pendant was raised up a bit and I had to cut it out. In the end that worked out because it allowed me to make slightly thicker pendants if I wanted to.

That is all I have time for now .. the next time I will finish up with casting and finishing the pendant.