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Hello,
Following a different thread I posted, I'm thinking of creating my own marine chapter and was thinking of sculpting shoulder pad detail for them all, but clearly it's going to be easier to sculpt one and cast it many times to reproduce it easily. What I'm looking for is a tutorial on casting multiple items where you need to create the whole item, not just one side of the object. ie I want to be able to produce my own versions of this. But I don't want to be buying all the resin casting vacuum chambers and so on. I did see a video somewhere of how to do this, but can't find it now. Grrr.
Thanks in advance!

I found this when i was researching.
http://www.hirstarts.com/moldmake/moldmaking.html

yeah,
coping a shoulder pad entirely is against the rules.
but coping a original design onto shoulder pads is allowed.

what you after is a GS press mold. do a google search.

this is a quick idea of what your doing
make a mold:

make your original. wait till rock hard... ( over night..)

get a small container, I use jewlery boxes or 35mm film containers, and half fill with GS

cover the side of the shoulder pad with the design in vasiline

push the design face down into the GS- Wait till the GS is rock hard... over night..

pull the original off the GS- the GS is now a template/mold

using the mold:

get a blank shoulder pad place a small amount of GS on it's surface (depending on the size Shoulder pad detail)

push the pad GS side face down into the design template mold, wait till hard and remove and tidy up flash

for a while you will make good copies... the original mold will lose detail due to vasiline build up and GS debri...

Over all you will be better off buying the pads online, the detail will be better than what you can achive at home..
Good luck.

PAnic..

Thanks for the help!
The link was exactly what I wanted and the tips from Panic are very useful!

I agree that the pads would be best bought online due to additional detail, but if I want my own design on them, I won't be able to do that online!

Thanks again.