You're Not Still Using Alginate, Are You?
 Introducing “Body Double”
Apply-To-Skin Mold Making Rubber


Smooth-On’s New Body Double™ is a silicone rubber that can be applied directly to the skin to make fast and lasting molds of the face, hands and other body parts. Available in “Standard” or “Fast” Set, both are mixed 1A:1B by volume, cure quickly with high tear strength and will reproduce perfect detail from any original model - far better detail than any alginate.

Cast As Many Times As You Want - You can cast anything into a Body Double™ mold and make many castings from a single mold - not just one.

Save On Material And Labor Costs - With Body Double™, you use less material and can go right from the body to casting. By not having to make a plaster positive from your alginate mold, clean
it up and re-mold it, you actually end up saving money.
 
Faces In The Crowd - On-the-spot face molds of trade show passers-by were made in about 5 minutes, leaving attendees smiling.

 

What Is The Difference Between “Standard Set” and “Fast Set”?

Standard or Fast Set - The rubber is the same. The only difference: working time (pot life)
and demold time.

Body Double™ "Standard Set" for larger surface areas - torso, full-leg, etc.
Working time of 5 minutes and a demold time of 20 minutes - at room temperature.

Body Double™ "Fast Set" for fast turn around.
Working time of 90 seconds and a demold time of 5 minutes - at room temperature.

Both stick to themselves readily, so more material can be added at any time.
Important - Body Double™ is temperature sensitive - the warmer the material and environment,
the faster the material sets. Use At Room Temperature!

                                  Click Here To View Body Double™ Technical Bulletin
   

   How Does It Work?  Using Body Double "Fast Step" - Step By Step

 

Here’s How To Make A Quick & Easy
Face Mold And Casting
Model: Croatian Rock & Roll Legend, Joe Domic.

1. All materials are assembled before beginning.
     

2. The beard poses a potential sticking problem. Body Double™
Release Cream is applied
thoroughly to the skin, and especially the hair.
     
3. Body Double
“Fast Set” Cartridge is loaded into the dispensing gun.

4. Body Double™ can be
dispensed directly onto skin or dispensed into a cup and then applied with a brush.
       

Make sure you leave
a breathing vent either in the mouth or nose.

5. Curing -The mold rubber is allowed to cure for about 5 minutes.

6. While the
rubber is curing. plaster
bandages are cut to size
and immersed in water.
 
         
 
7. Excess water is squeezed from bandages and they are layered over the rubber surface.   8. Plaster bandages are allowed to dry for about
15 minutes.		 9. The support shell
is removed.		 10. The rubber is carefully removed from the face.
         
 

You will be amazed at
the detail this rubber picks up.
You’ll see every hair, line, skin marking, etc. Much better than any alginate!

Smooth-Cast 325 resin and bronze powder are
used to make
a casting.

 

Perfect detail    reproduction -
and, unlike alginate,
this mold will last for many castings.

Time Factor-
Start to finish
applying rubber, support shell and making the finished cold-cast
bronze casting
- just over 1 hour.

 

 

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How Does It Work?  Making a Torso Mold and Casting Using
Body Double™ "Standard Set"  -  Step By Step

 

Tip: Our Silicone Thinner™ is added to the initial batch to lower the viscosity for easier application.
1. Body Double Release Cream is applied throughly to all areas that
will contact the rubber.		 2. “Standard Set” is measured & mixed.   3. The model is posed and the
rubber is brushed on using a soft bristle brush.
       

4. Best Method - apply
rubber from bottom
toward the top of model.		 5. The model rests on a “tilt board” that offers support, but
can be tilted back. 		6. Additional batches of rubber are mixed as necessary. Finished mold
wall thickness is 1/4” - 3/8”.
     

7. Plaster bandages are applied as a support shell. 8. Demold - Shell and mold are
carefully removed.
   
 

9. Smooth-Cast 325 and bronze powder are mixed and brushed
over the mold surface.		   10. The model is buffed with fine steel
wool to bring out the luster of the
bronze powder		 11. Black shoe polish is brushed on the model to add depth and definition to the shine
       

With this one mold, you can get many castings - without
a release agent.

 

 

 

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