That helps alot thanks luckily we still have a rotary tool from when my dad used to need it daily Ill check youre thread out too
Awesome man! Make sure to reply to it so I can get some feedback!
That helps alot thanks luckily we still have a rotary tool from when my dad used to need it daily Ill check youre thread out too
i have a bit of a question with rebound-25. .. is it safe to make molds that you can later make like icecubes or candy with. cause i was thinking of making sets of game weapon molds to make chocolate out of but the sites failing me for info on food safe or not. also if its not any suggestions on what silicon mold stuff i could use
Hello, im a big noob to this. I got some parakura (or something named like that) but what should i use? just print it on paper? But paper cant hold to so much so how do i make it hard enough, so i doesn't get destroyed so easily.
You are absolutely correct. The steps you mentioned are the process for making your "master". This is the primary template for your armor piece. Lots of folks go no further and use their master for wearing and showing off. Their master is the finished product. Molding has nothing to do with this process.
What molding does is allows you to make very accurate copies of your "master" piece out of urethane resin or other slush castable materials. That way you dont have to pep, resin, fiberglass, and bondo an entirely new suit just so you can have one red suit and one blue suit. You can just make a mold and cast out as many as you want. This is fine and smiled upon if you do this to the armor YOU built. This is bad and frowned upon and their will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when making molds of armor someone else built without their permission.
Hope this helps. Best of luck.
Sorry if I sound like a noob, but Im confused about you saying that you will get in trouble if you copy someones work. Like in what way dose it count as copying someones work? All I can think of is if you buy it from them or trade something for there suit and then make a mold out of it. Is it copying someones work if you make the mold out of the suit you made from using blueprint off of the halo wiki. Or do you have to make your own blueprints in order to be able to make a mold of it with out getting in trouble. And also I couldnt really find anything about how expensive it is to make the mold. Is the stuff you use to make the mold farely cheap or is it more expensive to do it this way then it would to make it with fiberglass.
Theoretically, it COULD be stealing if you used a halo pepakura someone else made, assuming they had made it for private use. Most pepakura makers release their files out of good will, and expect no compensation. Usually it's a good idea to ask them before molding though, regardless, as they may have released it for you to make for personal use, but not for you to profit off of, so if you intend to mold-cast for profit, you should contact the person who made the file. Mold-casting someone else's FINISHED physical armor, as in something you obtained through trade or purchase, is almost always wrong and usually illegal, unless they give you explicit permission to do so.
Price-wise, it is fairly expensive to make a mold, expect it to cost around 100-200$ for a basic mold of a helmet, upwards of 500$ if you make a really high quality boxed mold, which is a tad excessive. Then there is the additional costs of the plastics for the copies, which can run you around or over 80$ per casting. Usually the first couple copies are made to recover the costs of the mold, and a mold will only last you a certain number of castings before all the pulling and peeling start to break down the mold. It all depends on the material you use, and how good you want the copies to be.
Cereal KIlll3r had no trouble casting his Mk VI helmet after he had painted it, so I don't see any problem doing what you're thinking. Just make sure that before you apply the rubber molding that the helmet is clean and you've applied the proper mold release agent.