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  1. Greg Wann
    Well...When I was doing the clay up, I did break the joint on the passenger side on the rear door. That little part that makes the window opening. I broke it at the top of the joint. It still looked good. I tried to be really careful around these delicate areas.
  2. Greg Wann
    Yes, Dwayne, it might be painful. Hopefully the mold will be a good one.
  3. Greg Wann
    The body has the mold box built around it and there is 1000 milliliters of silicone poured in. I mark the molds with letters that I make. I also like to know where the front end of the body is, this is important when demolding a resin body. Now I just wait for the silicone to cure. I use clear GE SILICONE II to hold the mold box together. Use only the clear because the colors take much longer to cure. I can pour silicone in about a half hour after making the moldbox. You still need plenty of patience for this work. The blue silicone will have a death grip on the master body. It might not survive being removed from the mold. Removing the clay from inside the body is a difficult process too. The clay is carefully and tightly packed in the body. I warm it up a good bit to make it easier to put it in. I have a insulated box with a bulb in it that keeps the clay warm all the time.
  4. Greg Wann
    I got the tires from Joseph today. They are pretty darn nice as usual.
  5. Greg Wann
    Yes, I am aware of that process and terminology. The equipment is really expensive. This seems much cheaper.
  6. Greg Wann
    There is a page about plating plastic materials.
  7. Greg Wann
    Yes, I don't know what's up with the date setting.
  8. Greg Wann
    Got the body from Mike Last night. It is good news that it fits in my 6 quart pressure pot and also fits in this sheet metal. I think I can make it work. I was hoping I would not have to use my Big Bertha pressure pot to cast a body. It is now after 10:00 PM. I have the body mostly clayed up and cleaned. I take the handle of my exacto knife I push it into the clay to make these dimples. I think they help keep the inner core of the mold well seated in the mold so that it does not shift under pressure. There are a couple more layers of 3/8 inch thick clay to form the base. I might have a body by Saturday. I should have the tires soon too. So, the sheet metal is important. The finished mold will be set on a couple of those cheap shopping bags and then it will be cradled in the metal to keep the sides nice and tight. Body molds take a lot of post work too.
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    GEEEEZ, I think it has been nearly ten years since I purchased anything from him. He could be making some money. I Would like to buy his or some chrome plating equipment. I could probably keep a couple of people busy here in Phoenix. There are some plating companies here, but I don't think they do plastic parts. http://www.platingsales.com/index.html I found this company and just about purchased one of their chrome plating kits. If there is anyone living near this company, can you tell us about it? thanks
  10. Greg Wann
    Joseph is making and sending four tires. I sent him a set of the wheels I made and he sized them accordingly. He does really nice work. I will attempt to make tires on my own. Hopefully it will be a success.
  11. Greg Wann
    Yes, I do believe this was his seller name on Ebay back then. Is he still in business? He plated some parts for me in red and blue also. The red parts were for a Ferrari Barchetta F50 and the blue parts were for a 70 Monogram Pontiac Trans Am. I thought they were cool back then.
  12. Greg Wann
    Luis Bernier Someone asked awhile back about anybody that did chrome plating in Canada. I'm pretty certain this is the name of the guy that did some vacuum metalizing on some parts that I purchased from him through Ebay. This has been some time ago. The last I recall was he was working in a mental hospital and was purchasing some property out in the country. He was going to move his equipment, but was in need of spending a large amount of money getting it working properly again. Funny how names can come to me out of no where. Here is a Mustang he did for me. It is a Representation of the BOSS HOSS Mustang that came from Hot Wheels when I joined the club in about 1969. Here is a picture of some parts he had sent me.
  13. Greg Wann
    Perhaps it was a Strada Sports item. I think they are in Germany.
  14. Greg Wann
    A 3D printed master would be a good start for a resin casting project.
  15. Greg Wann
    That is good news to me.
  16. Greg Wann
    Here is another set of mirrors with a bit more weight added to the top in the pressure pot. The flash is nearly non existent. Dang! I forgot to change the date on my camera. I did not want anybody to know I am a time traveler.
  17. Greg Wann
    Tamiya does a s600 coupe. It is a two door car with a 12 cylinder engine. I have one of those kits. you are wanting a four door version.
  18. Greg Wann
    I know what you mean. When I was a kid, it was a set of burned out glass pack mufflers on a Buick 455 GS. I 'd get that puppy up to about 90 at night and let off the gas pedal and watch the light show in the rear view mirror. I thought it was cool.
  19. Greg Wann
    The photo is a bit grainy. These two bright light colored dots are the vents filled with resin. They are close enough to the part to be effective and not be directly connected to the part. I think this is much nicer than the typical sprue attachment points in model kits. I think it is a advantage. Some parts on sprues are as small as the sprue itself.
  20. Greg Wann
    Hi Christopher, wheels can be a real pain to make. Wire wheels have a lot of delicate detail. Resin can reach upwards of 160 degrees when it cures. Fine detail in molds can get baked from the heat. I use Mann 200 mold release. It is a thermal barrier and a mold release. Still fine detail can just get trapped in the part you are making and the silicone will tear out of the mold damaging it. Perhaps you could post a photo in a new topic here and I might be able to help. You might go to the other forum and find some help there. Making resin parts can be fun when there is success, but when parts are crappy you are wasting time and material. Interior tubs and chassis are my biggest enemy
  21. Greg Wann
    OK, I see what you are asking. To me, those are vent holes where excess resin and air gets pushed out when the two mold parts are put together. If you go to page 6 on the top link above you will see my secret weapon. This is a sort of waffle shaped thing I found at work. It was perfect for my experimenting back then. It is actually for vibration isolation on motors and pumps to mount on. So....I place this waffle on top of the mold and then I place molds on top of it. For me, air pressure and weight on the mold is what makes a good part. There are still little tricks to know. When I first decided to try resin casting I was doing what most everyone else was doing. I joined the Cactus Car model club. I saw some resin pieces I would have thrown in the trash instead of expecting someone to shell out a lot of money for a difficult task of using them. So, I learned to make really nice parts pretty quickly and I became the mastercaster.
  22. Greg Wann
    Hi, I'm not certain what you mean about the pour stub. There is the stub where it will be glued into a hole on the door of the body. When I make the part I pour ra small amount of resin in and then pour a small amount on the part of the mold that makes the mold lid.
  23. Greg Wann
    I like to have the excess resin pool in these wells. The flash is nice and thin, this is good. The best way to release small parts from the thin flash is to carefully break the flash away from the part with a sharpened Starbucks coffee stirrer
  24. Greg Wann
    Here is the mirror mold finished. I cut in vents with a piece of brass tubing then I take a exacto knife and create these wells. I like the excess resin to pool here while it is in the pressure pot under 65 PSI. I will make a few sets and then create yet another mold that will make several sets at one time. I should have added the hood ornament in this mold.
  25. Greg Wann
    http://smcbofphx.proboards.com/board/45/resin-casting You are welcome peteski. Here is a link to a forum I have been posting projects and photos to for many years now. Page 6 are my first entries so start there. I am pretty much the only person posting there anymore, but the forum gets a lot of visitors in a 24 hour period. Posting photos on this forum is much easier than the two others I post to. I can just upload a photo straight out of my pictures file and not go through a hosting site. http://resinmodelcasting.proboards.com/ Here is a forum that Rocky Smith and I started and have been posting to for awhile now. Apparently no other resin caster on this forum shows any kind of work in photos as to how a project gets done. I think they think it is super secret stuff. Companies that sell resin and silicone have tons of videos online. There was a guy in the Cactus Car Model club that did resin casting. I took an interest in resin casting and after my third question he quit helping me. I guess if he told me he would have to kill me! I have thought about doing videos, it might be kind of fun. In order to make good resin parts having the right equipment is important.
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