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  14. Albuquerque Storm Trooper Helmet Mold

    in The Foundry - Armor and Prop Making

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    Vern has a few good points.....

     

    HIPS won't actually absorb moisture from the air. Only ABS will you need to heat if it's been sitting for more than a couple of days. If you are storing it in a heated house it's not so much of a problem.

     

    Heating the moulds a bit will help to a certain extent but if we are to get technical it's probably better to mention the rooms ambient temperature as that has a big play in your forming too. The main problem is when you apply the vacuum you also remove air from the room and move it about and this all affects the way plastic forms....To have a perfect forming room the air has to be controlled too.

     

    Forming is a lot more complicated than it looks when you start to get into it......as for blowing off the mould you will need a compressor and high pressure blasts will help.....or a vacuum table that has a blowback system built in...... To remove the plastic it's best to do it when the plastic is still warm.... Cold will tend to make the plastic brittle....depending again on how hot you got the plastic to start with..... It's good to experiment on what timing you heat the plastic for.... a second or two can and will make a difference.

     

    Another way is to have a mould that collapses... There are various ways to approach this... You can have a sliding mould where the pieces slide together and can be solid or you go for the plug method of silicone moulds that have a plug you pull from the inside and the outer mould then collapses and pulls out easily.... You can even reverse vacuum form by having a negative female mould and suck the plastic into rather than over....Mould making is an art form in itself......

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  15. Finished My Armor, Small Issues!

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

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    As far as the cast, the eBay post said "cast from a screen worn ANH Stormtrooper" If thats true or not, I'm not entirely sure. Either way, for the price, I am extremely impressed. I'm a senior in high school, so sadly I don't have the money for an ideal set of armor right now, but I'm content with this for the most part :)

     

    I'm very interested in knowing what others thought of makerofthings

    I can tell you that he is a nice guy but with no morels when it comes to recasting other people's work. All he has ever done is recast other makers armour and helmets. Makerofthings translates to Makerofotherpeoesthings! :laugh1:

    Yes your armour is cast from an original set a few generations removed. He used to recast TE then CAP now it looks like RS.

    There are only two makers currently selling armour cast from original. That's myself of which is ROTJ and RS which is ANH. I'm the only one that currently sells "cast from original" ROTJ so no real confusion there. ANH is another story.

    There is loads of history on here but most ANH armour apart from TM, RS and a few other fan sculpts derive from ROTJ armour re engineered to look ANH and started out as TE then recast by CAP who gave permission for all to recast which gave way for a multitude of offshoots. It's complicated. :lol:

    So bottom line is that makerofthings sells recasts of other vendors armour and helmets.

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