Friendly plastic

[vlester]

Has anyone ever used this stuff? http://www.sunshinecrafts.com/body_frie ... astic.html

There's an article over at ARC about using it as a mold making material. He used bondo for his casting medium, was wondering if something like this would work with resin or maybe just something like Aves.

Anyone?

[macfrank]

Has anyone ever used this stuff? http://www.sunshinecrafts.com/body_frie ... astic.html

There's an article over at ARC about using it as a mold making material. He used bondo for his casting medium, was wondering if something like this would work with resin or maybe just something like Aves.

Anyone?

I have a big container of it. Friendly Plastic is extremely friendly to everything and even stuck to the mold materials I used. If you pour it into a mold, you'll need a release agent.

Using Friendly Plastic as a mold material itself might work; again, you would need a release agent. The plastic is waxy and somewhat hard (it's similar in many respects to hot glue) and the heat from a large resin cast might deform the plastic.

You probably don't need a water bath to melt the stuff, either - but be careful to keep the temperature low (150 - 150F) while melting it.

Frank