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Make Your Own Rubber Mold With Latex Rubber Mold Making Compound
Make Your Own Rocks or Other Molds With Ready-to-Use Latex Rubber
from Woodland Scenics.Latex rubber brushes on just about any object - peel off to make a mold useful for pouring plaster into and duplicating the object.
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Formulated to be thin enough to seek detail and thick enough to be durable.
Create long-lasting molds with just a few coats.
The Latex Rubber can be applied to almost any surface to duplicate that surface in exact detail.
These rubber molds will be durable enough to enable you to make many castings from each mold.
Cleans up with soap and water.
Making a mold with latex rubber is an easy process. If you have rocks or other objects you would like to duplicate you can do it with liquid latex rubber. You can even duplicate rocks in the field if there is sufficient time to allow the latex to dry. To make a mold you brush the latex over the item to be duplicated using a synthetic fiber brush. Make sure you work the latex rubber well into the surface to be duplicated and work out all the air bubbles. Allow to dry thirty minutes. After drying, apply two or three more layers in the same manner as the first. After the last layer is dry, the mold may be peeled off and is now ready to use. If you want a mold with a little more strength, add a layer of cheesecloth to the mold after the second layer is applied. Press the cheesecloth into the latex rubber before it has dried completely and apply at least four more layers over the cloth. You may use hydrocal to pour in the completed mold.