Moulding

[secretpaintgeek]

Hi fellas,
Anyone had any experience with Liquid Blu-stuff? I have no idea when it comes to this sort of thing and in reading a few reviews and so on have noticed a few people mentioning things like heat and airbubbles as well as vacuum chambers (Which sounds expensive). Also a lot of people have said its quite expensive and linked similar products but in being a noob to this I am uncertain if i'd need other, more specialized, equipment (Such as the vacuum chamber) to use these.
I would mainly wanna use it to duplicate smaller things like shoulder pads for marines and small icons and such. Maybe the occasional dread weapon or something would be the biggest thing i'd try.
So if anyone could shed some light on this for me I would really appreciate it.

 

[me_in_japan]

Technic'ly speaking you're not supposed to copy things like (presumably SM) weapons and shoulder pads, those things being the IP of GW. However, if a person was to sculpt their own gun and wanted to copy it they would find that insta-mould (aka oyumaru) and green stuff are quite useful

 

[Einion]

Anyone had any experience with Liquid Blu-stuff?

Never heard of it, sorry. Where did you read about it?

So if anyone could shed some light on this for me I would really appreciate it.

For simpler things with minimal or no undercuts - which includes shoulder pads, badges and other surface details - you can get a lot of mileage from simple single-sided press-moulds. These work nearly equally well in any common epoxy sculpting material although Kneadatite does offer some advantages when it comes to the mould itself; the copies are often better done in something else, one of the epoxies that sets hard, as this makes cleanup easier.

For casting something that has heavy undercuts, deep recesses and sharp corners you really need to go with some form of rubber mould, and generally speaking you'd be looking at making the castings in resin of some kind.

Double-sided things don't necessarily demand the rubber + resin route, but you have to be prepared for more effort making each copy and cleaning them up.

Technic'ly speaking you're not supposed to copy things like (presumably SM) weapons and shoulder pads, those things being the IP of GW. )

Well GW themselves used to publish demos of how you could take copies of some details, so that ship has sailed as far as GW are concerned. And anyway, for personal use there's really no issue anyway.

Einion

 

[secretpaintgeek]

Heard about it on one of the forums. Here's the website.....
http://blu-stuff.com/
Done a little bit with the that instant mould stuff from the cmon shop. That seems to work well for little icons and the such but as i am starting to sculpt little bits and bobs onto chests, shields, guns and so on. This is why i think it might be nice to have a way to replicate these easily.
Maybe i'll just take the plunge and order some to try out. Who knows, it may lead to some more ambitious moulding in the future

Oops, how rude of me! Forgot to say thanks for the feedback

 

[Einion]

Heard about it on one of the forums. Here's the website.....
http://blu-stuff.com/

Ah right, the firm type is the same basic stuff as Easy Mold or Hiflex if you've not heard of those.

Those prices seem decent for just having a punt, and the hand-moulded stuff is fun to play around with, but full starter kits for casting in resin are available. Even though that's considered an expensive way to buy rubber and resin they do represent far better value. Here's the smaller one from Sylmasta in case you want a look.

Einion