Advanced Techniques

Advanced Techniques

The next step in moldmaking. These videos and step-by-step tutorials show techniques which are for advanced users and include cavity molds, multi-part molds, and other ways to mold complicated originals. 

Whether you are interested in reproducing a sculpted figure, an antique picture frame, an industrial pattern, an architectural molding, a fossil, animal skin (taxidermy), the texture of a piece of fabric, or a toy, you start by making a rubber mold. Whether you want to make one or one thousand reproductions of an original, you can do it using a mold.

Whether your original model is made from clay, wax, plaster, sand, concrete, stone, metal, bone or almost any material, making a rubber mold makes it possible to reproduce that model – exactly.

Featured Step-by-Step How-To's

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Creating an Epoxy Mold for a Silicone Makeup Prosthetic

Creating an Epoxy Mold for a Silicone Makeup Prosthetic

Watch as we craft an epoxy mold for an encapsulated silicone prosthetic of a snake person makeup.

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Creating a Clear, Hollow Casting Using Crystal Clear™ Urethane Resin

Creating a Clear, Hollow Casting Using Crystal Clear™ Urethane Resin

Milo shows how to rotocast a clear object using Crystal Clear™ 202 urethane resin

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How to Make a Free-Form Concrete Sink

How to Make a Free-Form Concrete Sink

Watch how to make an elegant shallow free-form concrete sink from start to finish

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Building the World's Largest Underwater Christmas Tree

Building the World's Largest Underwater Christmas Tree

How Vegas Props fabricated the world's largest underwater Christmas tree

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How To Make a Hand Lay Up Casting Using duoMatrix™ NEO and Matrix™ Chopped Glass

How To Make a Hand Lay Up Casting Using duoMatrix™ NEO and Matrix™ Chopped Glass

Making a durable lightweight architectural element or display piece is possible using duoMatrix NEO polymer-modified gypsum and Matrix Chopped Glass.

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How To Make a Kiln Formed Glass Sign for Retail Kiosks

How To Make a Kiln Formed Glass Sign for Retail Kiosks

Learn how Greg Schadt of Gravity Glas Design created an amazing kiln-formed sign.

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How To Make a Replacement Car Lens Using Crystal Clear 202

How To Make a Replacement Car Lens Using Crystal Clear 202

How you can replicate a tail light lens of any car using optically-clear resin.

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How To Create a High Temperature Tool Using EpoxAmite™ HT and EpoxAcoat™ HT

How To Create a High Temperature Tool Using EpoxAmite™ HT and EpoxAcoat™ HT

High temperature tooling resins play an important role in creating composite parts and are a low cost alternative to metal molds.

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How To Use EpoxAmite™ to Create Carbon Fiber Composite Parts

How To Use EpoxAmite™ to Create Carbon Fiber Composite Parts

Nordan is a world renowned fabricator of performance composite parts for racing cars...

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What People Have Done With These Materials

Restoring an Historic Concrete Seal at Princeton University

Restoring an Historic Concrete Seal at Princeton University

Watch How John Paolini, from Paolini Cast Stone, Restored an Historic Concrete Seal

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