Google has not been very helpful, as so far I have only encountered vacuum forming - I am interested in this also.
What I am looking for relates to casting solid pieces to replace damaged and broken kit pieces using some sort of mold.
Primarily, the capstan on one of my projects disintegrated, but other parts have suffered from the black floor, carpet and the worm-hole.
There have been many previous threads on RTV or resin casting, one not very long ago. I might immodestly mention an article I did in FSM a couple of years ago :-)
Not sure which arguments you used in your google search, but try again, use; casting, resin, molds, and maybe rtv.
Thanks. Using the above keywords, I found Tap Plastics that have some instructional videos for their product, but I believe I have got the idea from that.
I knew I had that issue, Nov 2002, page 30.
snipped-for-privacy@isp.com (Wayne) wrote in :
Yes. The more specific your keywords the better. Remember that scratchbuilding is not a single technique, but a collection of techniques aimed at building a scale model without using prefabricated pieces. Resin casting is one technique, but you can also shape solid blocks of wood, plastic, plaster or metal, use plasticard, etc.
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