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Tap Plastics
Great S.F. Bay area resource, especially for beginners. Where we go when it's the day before the con and we've run out of materials... this happens way more than it should. Silpak Located in the Los Angeles area. We really like their polyurethane quick cast resin. Smooth-On The website leaves something to be desired but they have great products. Their stuff tends to require some know-how but we really like their mold rubbers. |
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The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook
All encompassing guide to making props with varying techniques from very simple, like hot glue casting and paper mache, to more advanced techniques, like fiber-glassing and vacuum forming Do It Yourself Vacuum Forming Put out by Tap Plastics. Great guide to building a vacuum form setup at home using stuff you can find pretty easily and for fairly cheap YouTube There are a lot of how-to videos posted on YouTube. Tap Plastics has tutorials posted there too. |
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Polystyrene / ABS plastics - used for vacuum forming
Polyurethane Resin - a resin you mix and pour into molds RTV Silicone Rubber- a mix and pour rubber that you use to make molds Polyester Resin - a clear resin X-30 expanding foam - a mix and pour foam that expands Fiberglass - a paper mache like material using glass cloth and epoxy |