way to mirror image something?

raser13 · Post by **raser13** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:30 pm

what i have is a plastic spoon handle that i found at my local lions choice restaraunt. it has an awsome detail that resembles the trecnch on the side of the engineering hull of the tos enterprise.

http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/w ... el-082.jpg

http://www.myrtsweb.com/upload/raser13/ ... 000822.jpg

i was wanting to use this detail on a connie variant that i'm going to start soon, and was wondering if any of you knew of a way to mirror immage the detail so that they match from side to side? any ideas wold be greatly apreciated

Post by **TER-OR** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:30 pm

well....

If you want to make a surface mold and a thin detail part you can cut up to place on the other side you can do that pretty easily. To make a 1-piece mirror image? No, I don't think I have any easy way.

http://www.amazingmoldputty.com/ProdDet ... ld%20Putty

I found Amazing Mold Putty at Michael's crafts store. It's a silicon RTV rubber thick enough to mold over a surface. Handy for replicating detail parts. Then you can use epoxy or resin to replicate the parts.

raser13 · Post by **raser13** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:46 pm

i have both products, and they work for amazing detailed molds. i was jus hoping that some one might know how to mirror the front detail so i could use these. i relly lied the way they looked.

Rogviler · Post by **Rogviler** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:30 am

I don't know of any way to do it perfectly without some serious computer-controlled equipment.

My best suggestion would be to take the design and cut it out yourself (the raised detail), flipping the pattern to make the other side. You could even just make one and then cast it, and assuming you made it right it would flip either way.

-Rog

Lt. Z0mBe · Post by **Lt. Z0mBe** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:29 pm

Look at the design closely and scratchbuild it. Seriously. You can do it easier than you realize.

Kenny

Rogviler · Post by **Rogviler** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:48 pm

Lt. Z0mBe wrote:Look at the design closely and scratchbuild it. Seriously. You can do it easier than you realize.

Kenny

And just to build on this: If you don't want to cut the strips, I know Evergreen makes strips that thin, not to mention lots of other things that come in strips, like plastic coffee stir sticks. It just depends on if you want to stick with that scale or go larger or smaller.

-Rog