Showing posts with label art project for kids. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Make Your Own Soft Bait Fishing Lures with Mold Making and Casting

Now you can make your own lures. Mix and match heads, bodies, and tails to create the perfect lure for your angling needs. Then make a mold of your unique lure shape and cast with the included Soft Bait Rubber. The mold Putty is re-usable, so melt your mold and make as many different shaped lures as you want.
To start making your own soft bait lures, you can use the shapes we provide, but when you’re ready you can expand into almost any shape.
Supplies Included:
  •  ImPRESSive Putty (You Press it over your objects to mold…get it? And it’s re-usable for dozens of molds. Impressive, we know.)
  •  2 part fishing lure Soft Bait Rubber (non-PVC based). Enough rubber for up to 20 rubber lures
  •  9 interchangeable fishing lure pieces for over 50 unique lure shapes.
  •  Gloves, stir sticks, mixing cups, and instructions.

MIX AND MATCH HEADS, BODIES, AND TALES FOR 50 COMBINATIONS OF CUSTOM SOFT BAIT FISHING LURES

MAKE THE LURE SHAPE AND MOLD
  1. Create a truly unique lure by choosing one head, body, and tail from the included shapes. You can make your lure longer by using 2 body pieces instead of 1.
  2. Use a dot of hot glue to hold each one together. Scrape away any hot glue along the seam.
  3. Heat the ImPRESSive Putty in the microwave in 15 sec. intervals until dough-like with no lumps.
  4. CAUTION HOT: Let stand for 10 minutes until temperature is comfortable to handle.
  5. Place your glued shape on a flat surface and PRESS the ImPRESSive putty onto the shape.
  6. Let Putty cool at room temperature until firm to the touch or 15 minutes in the freezer.
  7. Remove original shape by flexing the Putty away from it and pulling it out.
CAST THE LURE, then Cast your lure.
  1. Thoroughly mix Part A and Part B of Soft Bait Rubber in equal portions by volume.
  2. If you choose, you can add any dyes, fillers, glitters, scents at this time. IDEA: Add crushed up pieces of Styrofoam to decrease weight of lure or add dry sand to make it more dense. Resin Colorants and Glow In The Dark Powder sold separately.  
  3. Wipe any Activator off the inside of the mold with a paper towel or cloth before pouring your Soft Bait Rubber in.
  4. Pour your Soft Bait Rubber into the mold until it is flush with the top of the mold. Tap mold gently to release any air bubbles.
  5. Let the resin cure in the mold for 5-10 minutes or until rubbery to the touch.
  6. Flex the mold away from the casting to remove your one-of-a-kind soft bait fishing lure.
  7. Try it out…Go fishing.

 
CAST MULTIPLE LURES OR RE-MAKE YOUR LURE SHAPE
You might want to make a couple of the same lure just in case your neighbor decides to help himself to your prize winning lure. So repeat the casting process above to create multiple lures in that configuration.
OR
Break the lure shapes apart by slicing through the cooled hot glue. Scrape the cooled hot glue off of the pieces and rearrange them into a totally different lure configuration. Re-Melt the ImPRESSive Putty mold and repeat the process of creating your mold and castings.
SAFETY: ImPRESSive Putty is hot when melted and can burn. DO NOT handle straight out of the microwave. Let it stand until cool enough to handle comfortably. ImPRESSive Putty is not certified for use with edible materials. Leaking Activator from Putty can stain furniture. Store in an airtight container. Intended for ages 10 and up. Do not eat the Putty.
Soft Bait Rubber:  The soft casting rubber is a two part silicone casting resin with very low hardness (Shore D of 5) formulated to attract really good looking and big fish. While still in liquid form, the Soft Bait Rubber should be kept away from your skin. Use gloves. Do not eat or drink. 
Please do not litter. Please do not leave your rubber lures in the water or fish. The lures are not biodegradable. 



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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

How to Clone a Dinosaur Toy with ComposiMold








Katherine of Resin Obsession (http://resinobsession.com/) asked us to clone her dinosaur toy. She wanted to see how we do it, and she thought it would be a great way to show the power of ComposiMold to her customers.



So after she delivered the dinosaur to us, I got busy.



You never know the best way to make a mold. Even the best mold makers need to experiment to find out how they should set it up.



Where should you pour in your resin? Do you need to make a two part mold? Where should the parting lines be?



And that’s where ComposiMold comes in to play… it is reusable. I can experiment without worry, and without wasting materials.



So I did what I always do when starting a new mold making project…I experimented.



I placed the dinosaur into a cup and poured ComposiMold over it to see what happened…



I would like to say it worked perfectly and the mold is done and that’s the end of the story, but it’s not…well sort of…It did work just not the way it was supposed to.



The dinosaur didn’t float, but it didn’t stay on its feet. It flipped over onto its side…oops. Good thing I wasn’t using silicone rubber for my mold! First, I wouldn’t have known that it was flipped over because the silicone is opaque, second I would have wasted $30 on a messed up mold.



With ComposiMold,  I placed the mold in the refrigerator to cool off, started to pull out the dinosaur to do it again, when I realized that the mold turned out pretty good.



When it was solidified, I thought that the mold looked pretty good, so before remelting it, I poured a little more ComposiMold over the side to make it a little thicker, cut out the dinosaur and filled it with the epoxy just to see what it would be like…it was difficult to fill the small parts…I used a small wire to push the bubbles out of the hands and tail. So the mold worked. This blue dinosaur is actually a color changing dinosaur. When I add heat, it will turn clearer. (She’ll turn invisible!)



But since that wouldn’t make a good video I decided to do it again. Yes, I know. ComposiMold is cool…no wait, warm, warm when it’s melted. So I remelted the mold and did it again the “right” way so I can have it on video….


That great part is that I have not wasted any money or mold making material. I’ve experimented, learned the best way  to duplicate the action figure, and can do it again! Experiment #1 is a success.



First I coat the dinosaur with a thin layer of mold release, and then spray it with Bubble Buster to reduce the chances of bubbles sticking to the part.



To hold the dinosaur in place now that I know it will flip over, I have several options. I can glue it in place, do it as a two part mold, or the way that I chose….I poured a little ComposiMold into a cup and let that solidify first. Then I placed the dinosaur into the cup and poured a little more ComposiMold around its feet and torso and let that solidify. This ComposiMold held the dinosaur in place while we made the rest of the mold. Because we did not cool the first part of the mold or put a mold release in between the layers, the ComposiMold will melt together.



Another advantage of ComposiMold is that it is transparent. We can see where the dinosaur is within the mold. This lets us cut the parting line where we want it to be.



We could also have done this as a two part mold, but this seemed easier. Maybe we can do a two part mold next time… just to show the difference.



I assumed that the people who made this dinosaur originally put their parting lines in good spots, I decided to copy where they put them. But since I used a rubber mold making material, I need less of a parting line. I cut from the top so I could remove the part without damaging the feet and tiny hands.



I used Resin Obsessions Clear Casting Resin…This was my first time using that resin. It was thin for easy pouring and easily colored with different color dyes…also from Resin Obsessions.

I made several dinosaurs with this mold. Then, because I can, and ComposiMold is awesome like this, I remelted it to make a new mold. I made a rabbit to keep the town safe from the Dinosaurs!

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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Olympia Turns a Squinkie into a White Chocolate Ring Pop

What would we do without our most creative mold makers around? Our kids make the coolest things!

Olympia, the founder of ComposiMold's daughter, wanted to make a toy she could actually eat, just like babies chew on their toys. Who wouldn't want that, right?!

She explains the ComposiMold process as well as any of her adult counterparts and turns her little Squinkie toy into white chocolate. By pressing an empty Ring Pop ring into the bottom of the still melted chocolate, she was able to turn her creation into a functional AND EDIBLE work of art!




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