Making Plastic Heads and Custom Toys for Stop Motion and Fun - baby toys
Making Plastic Heads and Custom Toys for Stop Motion and Fun
How to Make Stop Motion Plastic Puppet Heads and Custom Toys. Using Mould Lifes Easy Flow 60, John Ikuma shows you how to make Plastic Stop Motion Puppet Heads and Custom Toy Castings. www.stopmotionmagazine.com Quick Facts: 1) Video was shot in 80% humidity in a garage during a rainstorm. Moisture in no way effected the casting. 2) A Wood stick was used to stir the ingredients. Manufacturer suggests using plastic or metal to stir ingredients. My reply to this is, if it's dry then it will work. Use common sense. 3) Baby Powder serves two purposes when applied to a mold. First, it acts as a casting release in sticky silicone molds (yes they do exist). You can also use sprays for this purpose as well. Second, the powder also helps the liquid find the detail of the mold. (Q: Is this powder even necessary / A: No, on small runs with non-sticky molds and I've seen bad castings with the powder in the mold with this particular plastic. You can just spray mold release into the mold and you should be fine. Remember that if you have a bad run then it's most likely something you missed or ignored. Use your good judgment). These methods were tested and used over many years. They have been confirmed by many experts and have been proven to yield great results. The proof is in the Video.
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The plastic is a hard solid mass that can be painted.
ReplyDeleteGI-1000 Silicone. You can use a RTV Silicone of your choice.
ReplyDeletep.s. is the plastic head you made a hard plastic? im looking to make toys for my shop that turn to hard plastic.
ReplyDeletewhat is the blue mold made of?
ReplyDeleteis there any other CHEAPER plasic i could use? i dont need any high quality, but i have to paint them
ReplyDeletecool i wish i could do that.
ReplyDeletePerfect vid. It really is that easy folks. I keep a second mold of something small handy, to use up the extra liquid plastic from the mixing process. Once you make a cast something a couple times you waste less and less as you figure out the exact volume needed. Thanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteThe liquid is EasyFlo 60 which is a 2 part liquid you can buy online through Monster Club dot Com.
ReplyDeletewhat are the liquids A and B
ReplyDeleteYou will need to first Prime the piece. You can use car primer or model primer. Then you paint with either Acrylics or enamel paints. Enamels are the best since they are designed for model making. Acrylics are good but you should buy good quality paint like Liquitex.
ReplyDeleteFirst you should prime the piece with model primer (Thin) or car primer (Thick). Then you can paint it using anything you choose. Acrylics, and enamel paints will work the best.
ReplyDeletewhat do you use to paint or color these? I have used similar products and my issue usually comes from paint sticking and enduring along with other related issues.
ReplyDeletevery pro !!! , i am anibal from colombia , and i use natural latex whitout any complements , the point is , what is the names of the products that you recomended to work in my figures to make stop motion . please make me a list including what's the name of the flexible mold
ReplyDeleteThe information is in Issue 4 of Stop Motion Magazine. Checkout the website. It's completely free!!!
ReplyDeleteHow do you make the molds/ What are your molds made of?
ReplyDeleteYou can buy the Easy Flow 60 through Monsterclub(dot)com or you can by Smooth Cast through theengineerguy(dot)com.
ReplyDeleteHey John,
ReplyDeleteGreat video. Very simple and direct.
Tim
where can i buy this from? the mould lifes easy flow 60 products
ReplyDeleteYou need to make the mold first. That instructional tutorial is in the Stop Motion Magazine Issue #4. Go to Stopmotionmagazine(dot)com and get it for free. Make the mold and then use this tutorial for making the heads.
ReplyDeleteWould it work the same with a body? I want to make puppets, so I figured a latex body and plastic head :D. Could you list me the ingreedients and how much they'd cost?
ReplyDeleteinformative video - Thanks for making it
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