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I try resin (Resin Gédeo Crystal) in a silicone mould (A blue paste and a white one which hardens into ten minutes and remains flexible)

- bottles
- cylindrical bottles containers with fruits and vegetables made of Fimo
- plates
This resin is indeed very transparent like glass, I also tinted it with stained glass paint.

   

silicon moulds
     
resin   resin pots
     
resin   Note:
- the result is magic.
- time indicated is a little short in a cold room, that really depends of the temperature.
- the colourless one is really too white, it is to better add a very little green and yellow. And the pure red is too fluo, one should put only some drops.
- My fruits ran at the bottom, I did not wait between the layers.
- Gloss if you want the bottle to have a glaze.
     
After painting the stoppers in cork color, i add label paper and a little painting stained glass paint on some.
For fruit bottles, stoppers are old buttons or rivets.		   finished resin
     
Third try. I added a coach of varnish.    
resin bottle
     
miniature resin
     
Summarry of mould making :    
     
Silicone (the blue one) moulds

Flexible and enough rigid. Easy to use, but there are sometimes bubbles between the object and the mould.		   Can also be use for
- plaster
- resin
- air dry clay
     
Latex moulds

Smoothness of the moulding.
It works very well with difficult forms.		   Only for
- plaster
- resin
     
Fimo crue moulds

Reusable, but only for the plate forms.		   For
- plaster
     
Cooked Fimo moulds


   For
- plaster if the form is rather plate and easy to unmould
- air dry clay
- Fimo
     
     
Latex moulds
     
Moulding attempt of plaster. The mould is finer for the details.
One soaks the small object several times in the latex. It should be cheaper than the blue silicone (if the bottle lasts a long time). There are anyway some bubbles.
     
plaster pots   - Unmould turning over the mould like a sock.

- talc is essential to preserve the moulds, if not they stick ones on the others !

- the moulding is rather fine.
     
Warning, the latex becomes brown in contact with metal or even with a little gilded paint on the object to mould...!!!!
     
Cloning rabbits, the left one is a toy, the right are two copies out of plaster.   plaster rabbits
     
Moulding from plaster with blue silicone mould.    
moulded frames    
     
     
 
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