Originally Posted by
Theobromine
Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention here is that you can also use the urethane (or silicone) to just do a thin skin coat on your sculpt, then pour a "mother mold" or support mold with plaster or other cheap rigid material. That way if the plaster breaks, all you have to do is pour a new mother mold but you won't have lost all the details of the sculpt. And the urethane rubber is durable enough that you really only need a very thin layer, and it captures details REALLY well (like annoyingly well, like it's picked up residual fingerprints on some of my sculpts that I thought I had smoothed out). So basically you can pick up the plaster outer shell (I'd still back it with fiberglass cloth to give it some strength, and that's pretty cheap at the hardware store). Then when you have that flipped over and set down where you want it, you can peel up the urethane skin coat and then just place it right back into the support shell (which is just there to keep it from distorting while you have the silicone in it). There are plenty of Youtube tutorials that will show you how to use these methods.
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