latex help

[loking]

can anybody help me making a latex muscle chest with arms. its for a halloween project.

 

[Adam]

I was trying to learn how to do this myself. ..... though I don't know how. I believe you'll have to make the mold out of plaster, because it absorbs water.

 

[Redsleighdown]

I use one for my spidey suit

didn't make it though, bought it here:http://www.action-actors.com/muscle_suites.htm

 

[JediFraz]

I dont have my mouldmaking books to hand right at the moment.. So I can't check.. But I believe Latex cures by open air exposure, by forcing out the ammonia from the mixture thus causing the curing. Which is why you need good ventilation, to avoid ammonia build up.

Silicon spray or petrollium jelly are commonly used as a mould release agents which would interfer with any porosity of the the plaster mould.

If water moisture retention was to be of critical importance, for example, clay slip casting (Where the water absorption of the clay mix to the plaster was important) you'd use liquid soap as a release agent.

But Like I said my memory could just be dodgy, If you give me a day or two I'll be back at work and I check the books and say for definite.

 

[Adam]

show me some pics of your spidey suit Red.

 

[Redsleighdown]

All in good time my friend, all in good time. I will premier another costume VERY soon but it won't be spidey. :dee:

 

[Adam]

yeah, and that makes me want to kill you. :gun2: :gun2: :gun2: :gun2: :gun2:

 

[Mancubus]

we dont care about your jack sparrow costume show us spidey, and black syidey now!!!!!!!!! heh jk, but no seriously.