silicone moulding with BB

[Beano Boy]

The Lego bricks were being collected after drying them,and this time a three part mould would be built up in stages. But a nice cup of tea arrived from the kitchen via my dear Mrs B, who smiled the smile of understanding as she looked at the work table with needful things piling up which were needed by my good self. Once again i would be employing the Chaos Theory again in my Quest to make a certain something. Which is going to be such a mess!



And so it was soon after slurping my tea,that the silicone was squeezed out upon the corn flour, it being starch that now needed baby oil added to it in order to help blend a good mix for another moulding adventure to begin. Baby oil is not cheap,and cooking oil is cheaper. However that can also be used,but there is a lot of sugar in cooking oil and it will seap out of any mould and make them very sticky indeed. Yes i know this to my cost.



This building would be the cheap Pattern and passage leading to somewhere else.



This turned out to be a three part rubber mould.



The guidence pegs will fit snugly together settling into their guidence holes which means that there is only one way to put it all together ready for pouring my resin into it. i went forwards by using very long hat pins to reconstruct every mould which were fixed tight inspite of pouring my resin mixture into them.





How did you stack these up to greater hights BB?

Even more things are comming soon. So please visit again. BB

[MABO]

Great looking houses, again Paul. And looking at a coffee-mug in the morning of the 1. January is also nice...

[Beano Boy]

Opp's a mild Apology!

Sorry guys i sort of got the pictures in a wrong order.
Eh! What! You can't make mistakes here BB, said a rather confused WingNut!
See guys things do go wrong for BB,even here.
Thank you for that Mister Green.
Things are going down hill from now on,remarked Winky!
Well Pards, i burried me old last years socks and then realised me feet are far to large for e'm new years socks Rowdy Yates, sent me. Said the Cowboy who always sleeps in his boots and dreams of the old rawhide days of his youth.
That ain't good, but i'll let you have my new woolly mits cause they are far to big for my flingers!
I'll make mention of this in the journal,' Cowboy is now a wearing extra woolly gloves upon his rather large pan handle feet.
Now all i've got'a do is find me old boots BB,sent me last new years.

an it is true bb,meant to mention e'm mits and flingers. Eh!



These are my newest plastic bricks,and some of these formed the multi part moulding box.


The mould being four sides and the top way down in the bottem,and i must admite it did look rather odd with long sized hat pins holding everything in place.




The very long sharp pointed pins that held everything together were removed ...



And the loose roof pattern remained in the bottem which was as i planed.



So removal of the four sided pattern took place.



Often is the case within industry loose pattern pieces are designed and used to avoid damage to the mould as the main pattern is removed.



i desided as the roof overhangs this structure, it would become a loose pattern.



So with a little flexing it was removed safely without ripping the silicone.



The end walls lay upon the table.



Now placed within my old washing up bowl they were ready for a hot bubble bath.



A little later the mould was being put together to prepair it for casting up with resin. So i needed to pin the parts together.... Now then where did i put my collective stash of long hat pins?



Ah, here are some holding tight the castle gate mould.
OK! That's it for now.Perhapes you might return for the next part? BB

[Beano Boy]

Within the heatwave of 2019 i toiled away my time upon my hobby and the internet. Here,the main thought was of casting a few up to stick upon the mighty walls of castles. An oddity of display using a dab of silicone to meet that final end.



Yes this sense of rendering up ones own gargoyles to direct the rainwater from medieval buildings was the main motive here. i soaked these in a thin colourwash of cold water within a large glass jar and they fizzed their way into turning to hardened stone. Five and a bit years on i still have them to display.

Well guys,until the next one.
Thank you for you visit,
it means a lot to little me BB.
we were very quiet on this one.

[MABO]

Funny and interesting as always, Paul!

[Santi Pérez]

Thank you for sharing all these techniques, BB. It's clear that making your own moulds can help you save a lot of money when you want several copies of the same item.

Santi.

[Beano Boy]

You are correct Santi, Thank you for commenting.
Things tend to multiply into matrices where i am concerned.. BB

[Dad's Army]

Paul, like always I am very impressed by all your ways of making your (big) production.
I hope ms. BB is as well hahaha
Keep up the good work, I love it!

[Beano Boy]

Thank you Remco,for your nice comment and question too. As i look out of the window my Mrs B,is very happy taking up the large wheeled rubish bins while draging them through the snow and ice. She is a marvel,because she helps our neighbours out too, by taking theirs up the court yard to the local pick up point.
Alas,i cannot.But i help out others in my own little ways. BB

[Beano Boy]

Staying upon the theme of such a topic as this,i would have had to scale some ancient building to fetch this one back for display! And i fear my special service days ended many years ago.

A good idea would involve plastering over that stone thing with rubber!

then peal it off when set!
What's set?
Well WingNut,it means when the rubber has gone off!
What is gone off Then? it means when it's cured wingnut,replyed the little button.
Eh! So you mean BB, would use 'gone off sick rubber,thats been cured?
'Well Pard's,this could go on all the lived long day.'decleared the Cow Boy who always sleeps in his boots.
Eh! What do ya mean by that,then?
Well Pard's! Do you see what i mean?
So lets move on.
Get'em up an move e'm on.Rolling!rolling!rolling!

Let's do that than. Some of the plastic pieces i used to make patterns worthy of the cost of my silicone moulding lay scattered below.



Below,the first piece having been removed shows nothing much,however as the others are removed the casting will be revealed on this ongoing display.



... So here we go again. just toddle along within this topsy turvy topic. The little button,advised.



Making another freestyle two part tower for my own use means 'not for sale.' The charm of having at times rather good cheerful days of hobbies,is certainly not my living,and it makes constructive time pass me by each day,and so there is no place for boredom. I'm never bored. So what do you feel like today WingNut? Oh just fed up i supose. There you go,i rest my case.



The pieces were easy to remove because i used baby oil as a parting flued.



Two part round castellation moulds. By splitting this one up i could make up extra castings to increase the hight of their battlements!



Another part was removed.





..... Raising the walls



The last piece was being removed .





Castle Towers.... they sort of rolled out and fell up, rather than falling down,and rolling away', mentioned the little bright button. that little fellow is so smart! Mr green said. i kinda wish i was. WingNut chimed in.



The raised extension brought forwards will bring this defencesive gate to another level. All i have to do now is find the battlements topping.



The cold water fizzing tub where this one hardened off to a stone like hardness certainly is worth placing here,because for myself it worked out fine and dandy. And this old picture of mine recently found upon You Tube,meant i could recover it along with lots of others that even though lost elsewhere they are now back within my own padlocked copyright pocket again.



The plastic tower.
An object not completely stuck together i must confess,but the elastic bands serves a purpose to keep them all bound together in a likeness shape all who look at such a thing would identify with and what it is.
Looking at the parts that make up each stage of castle tower,i determined that each part i needed would be produced in their own seperate mould.



So the top castlelation upon its rounded wall, which can be viewed cast up above,and the lower section of wall that has a curve to it's bottem i would need to make in my own topsy turvy mathodical way.
Being able to produce loose castings i could pile up to new hieghts all my castle parts.



A huge saving was to use the empty silicone cartradge to hollow out a few castings. All i had to do was stand the tube upright in the middle of the open top mould while i cast it up with my own free style uncomplacated mixed resin. Eh! Why? Well after all it is a needful thing to do in order to save my pennies that when stacked up, eventually save me all those rather costly punched out under great pressure British Pound Coins.

Bonk! Bonk!Bonk!

Of course one has to use a hammer to loosen the cartridge tube.

Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!

Eh! That's an awful huge size of hammer!



and so it eventually was removed,said the little button Well Pard's,this is interesting for an old time free granger like me. But i ain't very good with rather large sized hammerings myself. Eh! Always with the negitive! WingNut shouted out. It was at this point the well read Book Worn arrived upon the scene. Entry into the ledger, a question... who would think it wise to let WingNut loose with a hammer? Mr Green,could not resist asking, Who would let BB,loose with that hammer?

I'mmmmm...However what i mentioned before at the start of such an endevour,' It is only rocket science if i intended to make one.' 'That sounds rather cool!'...remarked Mr Ecin Reeb! Eh,Mr who? he being simply mixed up into another directive way from ' nice beer' That's right i'v waited for yonk's to have a place here upon the miss adventures of BB,and boy, o boy, am i glad. Well there ain't no money in it chimed in WingNut!



Ok Guys i'll see you on the next one.
Until then,Take care,stay well and help others if you can. BB

[MABO]

Huge output again. Great stuff. You should be able to build towns and towns and castles and castles...

[Beano Boy]

The Black Hand.

As the deadly folly of another new year began to unvail itself aided by the throng of two Great evil Kings,one that had been spawned by a Cyclopes the other by the black ash hands,of Made Men! And Yes.... as i indeed filled these lines of stanza, both parties had kissed that crowning finger Ring........ of highly organized great allegiance! Their prize being one of great inflation! i therefore ordered new supplies for other topics because i always replace that which i've used up,for to do otherwise would be rather reckless of me.
i will c u upon the next one. BB

[Beano Boy]

i came upon these in a round about way many years ago, And BB,thought 'i can use these.' But what are they? WingNut asked. they are for forming a presentation around cup cakes. replied the little button. What's a cup cake? WingNut murmured out rather quiet-like for he certainly had no clue what it was for.Although he knew what a cake ought to be.
Dang fancy like little things ta dress up a cake, if'en ya ask me. Chimed in the Cowboy,who had had no time for such things since hitting the cow punching, pushing trail,for a Dollar a day.
Ah! Such dusty trail Boss days were had by those trusting in gain along with the pain.





And so it was that some of the cup cake shapes were cut off the sprue... Yes let's call it that,shall we? Asked the well read Bookworm. Oh! What a spree we can have with a sprue! Eh! I don't know what you mean? WingNut muttered.
well it is simple to cut out patterns in order to make one. The little button explained. Eh! You mean cut out lots of them to make one?
Yes that is correct,said BB,although i'll have to see how each one turns out..... Mr Green, declared it just to mean BB's Quality and Control.

I'll drink to that, Ecin Reebs Hoo-rah'ed as he raised a beer. I made mention of it before,that there ain't no money in it, but where did you get that cool one? WingNut, curiously asked. It does seem that there is more going on here,that does not meet the average eye. I'mmm,is someone playing favourites here. Certainly not replied BB.



Two oblong strips of paper card were indeed of play, cut out and stuck together with waterproof PVA Glue and all those odd shapes were glued into place upon each one. These were the Patterns that made it possible to mould each and every shape in silicone.
These open top silicone moulds might give you an illusion that they are solid filled,but of course they are not. But you can keep your eyes upon them in order to see what is not there.... if you like.



It seemed Sir Percy,discoverer of strange new Worlds in Time and Space was once more in a dark place,but he was a veteran of aged degree who knew how to do certain stuff. Just like our BB, does.



more new supplies arrived today... So that'll keep BB,busy for a while longer... ! You mean before the price increases? Asked wingnut! Have no great fear for we few will ride out such a stormy sea of discontent. i hope so,said the little button. Saddle up guys,said the rather aged cowboy who always sleeps in his boots to make him ready for reaction. We few,we happy few,we band of brothers........
Peacefully Hold the line, and help others if you can BB

[Beano Boy]

Upon this example i went on to trim off all those bits along the bottom later. However the mould was made and it produced one side of a seven part building.

Upon Copy Right issues please take note these produced castings and the finished result's were not for sale. And therefore none were sold or traded in any way. i only show the way the rest falls upon another to decide upon the mater.

it's a bit like BB, showing you how to construct a rifle... he would then hardly expect you to go shoot someone. But as a fully qualified army arms instructor if you did then i would bear no blame that would be upon your head Buddy!
that sure was some serious stuff coming from our bb... mentioned the Forums only little button.

But what about if he blew his foot off? WingNut added in his dim light of logic. Then he would Limp himself away through life's miss adventures for ever. Added Mr Green. Very true read out the well read Bookworm!



There you go again BB! A double silicone mould set up. Eh! I'm confused already. Looking at the Lego box set up, there is a flat pattern placed upon the bottom which will form a mould producing flat walls. Once filled with moulding material and pressed down, the top will be smoothed over with a trusty butter knife. Then the main pattern in hand will be pushed into it down to it's halfway level. Access silicone will then be removed and the guide holes added by pressing a paint bottle top into it. i utilize and bring into play the oddest of things in order to help create a something without to much cost. As for the main pattern this is a made up column using a peddle bike handle grip, with a couple of round bits i stuck onto it. The set up is as simple as can be seen with a two part mould which will be open ended, after the pattern has been removed and the mould put together again and therefore it is ideal for casting the stuff into it.
Simple! Not to me it ain't.said WingNut. bb. forgot to mention that the both sides of this mould will be pinned together with some fine long hat pins. Thank you little button that is good info to know.remarked Mr Green.

However this is an illustration only and i will be adding a flat piece of paper card in the bottom with the flat wall pattern then added. It might be interesting to some that the flat wall section is also made by cutting and slicing in two another peddle bike handle then sticking it down flat.

[Beano Boy]

As i Tip my Hat
Welcome One And All.

Warning this part contains,
The illiterate language of the Free Masons!



i had already used the ace cool Lego bricks to form the moulding box, soon it was rammed up with the top row patterns well tucked up within it, Much later after casting them up i determined that those bottom plastic clips should have been cut off, because they were a difficulty that i ill deserved. Used as patterns only i should have had enough sense to remove them in the first place. So there it was that i learnt a lessen the hard way.
One can never be to old to learn a something else.

Wha'ell hi'ham olde enouff ta st'hay ha'as hi ham.fhlanka U fa'ery mautch. Now this just shows how our bb has to translate every letter and word so you guys can understand WingNut. Hand 4 imm han ma'mee thair haint nut a pheeenny hin hit fa huss.

Upon this day of days, i just wanted to say if you have gotten this far, That you are doing well. And after sifting through my photographs. There will more to come here. BB

[sberry]

It is truly amazing how much effort goes into those models, and in particular into making your own moulds!
Can you estimate what area this great (in more than one meaning) project will cover when it's finished?

[Beano Boy]

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[Beano Boy]

i Believe that they broke the Mould when these Three Kings Arrived upon the Earth!

[Beano Boy]

i write stories in a most topsy turvy way,so it dawned upon me that making my own props to place within them was the way i wanted to go. So here i made the moulds for steps, and ancient columns along with rather ornate walls.



S Berry, thank you for taking interest in this project along with others too, As an author in my own right i like to shuffle other topics of a lesser or larger degree between the lines so using the friendly smilies as the crew of this great ship,it is they who gain the gratitude and not espeacly little me.
Which is as it should be Pards! Said the one and only Forum cowboy!... and there is not a mention here of cowboy sleeping in his boots. I never noticed that. That's because it an't there. well that ain't really the case,because it was little i who made mention of it. Eh! You mean that i did see it after all?

A timely word about shop safty.
i do not use stuff that burn fingers painfully rough raw to the bone,or that which could choke a lung out like the peper spray in todays news! But i like to use the simple much safer products that even children can use under close supervision that is. For we must be careful how to direct them upon the safe curb and not let them wonder about upon the dangerous road ways of complete innosence.



This moulding box with reusable bricks was filled with my silicone mixture and the end result i was very pleased with.



The mould of the gateway double door's to my twin castle towers, were upon my list years ago,and these were needed for other multiple archways too.

Getting back to this one below.



The top castlelations once removed being still damp could be smoothed over with my trusty state of art butter knife if tiny areas needed it. But with the silicone mould being very durable i could cast 50,100 or more if i saw a great need for me to do so,but of course i don't. i just wanted to explain how hardwearing these trusty fellows were, OK ?



Here we go again adding two more different buildings into the mix for shuffling into stacking up place.



There is a base and two end walls followed by two side walls and they will be capped off with two slooping rooftop casting.
So these little dwellings are both seven part buildings which also require extra silicone to construct them. You mean they will be hollow inside? Asked WingNut. Eh! i did? Yes i did. i don't believe it. Me anall!
Which is swings and round abouts when the price of casting up materials and silicone is fully considered. But i soldier on because i need to swell and widen out... as indeed of playing well we all ought to do. so the greater savings will be on the casting up powder? Asked the little button that only speaks in lower class letters. Yip! That's right!
Count and keep your pennies when you recieve the change,because eventually they will turn upon their rise , into lovely golden British Pounds. Which is of the highest value in the whole wide earth of free range trading.



And topping off other rising castings appear upon this expanding topsy turvy pathway of expanding energy! But where are the moulds BB? BB, lost them. Eh! What?
Yes that is so,but one must consider they were made in that rather hot summer of 2019 before this world was pushed beyond reason upside down! so welcome since then to topsy turvy lands. Living it is believing it reasoned the Orange King of the South, as his gold bullion flowed into oily hands. And the other Great King from the ice cold bleak North born from the Cyclopes agreed that he would have some of that gold bullion too. So what of the other kings than? WingNut asked. You mean those from the West and the East Pard? Asked the cowboy who was getting ready to ride the whirlwind again. And now the King from the east wanted just to trade as if trading from the other three quarters of the world had not changed.



So there above are the ornate columns and walls. Remember when the column mould was close and fix tight with hat pins?
Well each flat outside part showed the impressions of the flat walls. So this silicone mixed with cornflower and baby oil produced three typs of castings because i utilised the outside space in order to gain what i see as free mould producing area's that cost me not an extra penny or a rather expensive English Pound!



Not to expensive creating this by using other handle bar handles. Looking around i find and see the potential of other things that are so cheap and everywhere!
so keep looking.


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The scene was set with an ancient stone work ruin the likes of that Sir Percy the descoverer of strange new worlds had never ever seen before.and it did seem to be flooded out from a heavy downfall of water.


There is a lot about a little to come so this will continue for while longer. Thank you to the thousand's of visits on this my latest Large topic.
Until next time. Stay safe and help others if you can. BB