Use a knife to gently trim away excess plaster from the edges. If necessary, use a fine-grain sandpaper to further smooth the rough spots. Make molds out of plaster of Paris. Mix the plaster as directed by the manufacturer. Pour the plaster into a watertight container, such as a plastic...
Workers fill plaster of Paris molds with the slip. The molds are in the shape of the desired piece, except they are about 12% bigger, to allow for shrinkage. The workers fill the molds completely with the slip, and let it sit for about an hour. Then, the workers drain out any ...
The final step before you are ready to export is making an opening for the cement (and a flat face to rest against the books). By opening the drop-down menu for your component, make the initial sketch visible again by clicking the 'eye'. Then select one of the pentagons you've sketc...
You can purchase pre-cast molds for casting statuary, or make your own molds. To make a mold, find a ready-made statue or free-sculpt your statue using plaster of Paris, modeling clay or other soft material. Then construct a form around the statue by building a wooden box twice the siz...
A key to copy Lighter or torch Melting spoon Mold material Casting material Ideally, you'll want to use clay to make your mold. But you can also make decent molds using Plaster of Paris, a bar of soap, or even bubble gum. The best materials for casting your key will be zinc, copper...
Here is our balloon with a few layers of plaster. At the top of the balloon, we took care to make a tear drop shape, because that is what Anna wanted for her lamp. You just want to make sure the opening is not too wide, if it is too small you can always cut it later, but ...
Imagine how cool that will be to make one in that scale. I’m actually looking forward to trying it in the summer…:) Well without any further adieu, here is the video : A couple things : 1. I used a glass vase and even though the plaster seems to be stuck very well onto the ...
The hardness of concrete is determined basically by two things--the mixture of the ingredients and the time you allow for the concrete to set, or cure. The important elements in the mixing of concrete are the amount of concrete itself, the amount of aggr
I was going to offer to make him a bunch, but again, never heard back. I then started testing colors of Dichro along with firing times. The blue (actually rainbow) was way to dark. The next two crackled too badly, I finally ended up with the pieces shown in the last individual ...
Plywood is used to make the removable forms for standard rammed earth construction. Sheets of three-quarter-inch (1.9 cm) plywood are thick enough. High-density-overlay (HDO) panels, which have a thin, plastic coating on one side, work especially well because they release more easily from ...