Shrinking via Casting

scottgirvan · Post by **scottgirvan** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:57 pm

HI,
I recently bought a figure. It and my kits are 1:48 but the figure is too big. Different idea of what 1:48 is I guess.

I've read that you can shrink via casting. Lost the link.

Is there a way to do this? Right now I only have the Smooth On RTV and Resin.

Thanks.

Ziz · Post by **Ziz** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:04 pm

I've been doing some casting lately and according to both the SmoothOn paperwork and experience, shrinkage is less than a fraction of a percent - .007% according to the paperwork for SC320 series resin. Unless you need to shrink your figure from 72 scale inches to 71.75 scale inches, you're probably better off just hacking up the figure, removing slivers from the various body components and limbs and gluing him back together.

Joseph C. Brown · Post by **Joseph C. Brown** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:48 pm

We had a thread on this awhile back:

http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/vie ... hp?t=27601

It seems that there is no magic bullet for this one...

scottgirvan · Post by **scottgirvan** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:14 am

Thanks for the replies.

Apparently you can cast with a solvent and resin mixture (special type) and depending on the % of mix you can actually reduce the cast by specific amounts.

I"ll probably just hack and glue. I'll post if I figure something out. Thanks.

DennisH · Post by **DennisH** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:34 am

http://scihighmodels.com/howto_shrink.html

Bookmarks are your friend!

Alex Dumas has it all worked out.

Dennis

scottgirvan · Post by **scottgirvan** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:39 am

That's the article I saw and then couldn't find! THANK YOU! You've made my day man.

Alex Dumas · Post by **Alex Dumas** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:34 pm

DennisH wrote:http://scihighmodels.com/howto_shrink.html

Bookmarks are your friend!

Alex Dumas has it all worked out.
Dennis

By the way, I have just revised my article with some new pics

http://www.scihighmodels.com/howto_shrink.html