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silicone moulding with BB

Posted by Beano Boy on 02 Feb 2026, 07:11

:coffee: Will this project end ? Well that is up 2 you,as 4 myself now have'en been 77 years upon this earth perhaps with my end it will. However my real intention has always been one to pass knowledge along to the other would be keepers, so they hopefully can do likewise and in this way there are no real secrets to banish behind a cloak or vale of darkness. For there is no real reason for such a thing to take place. However i realise for some it does because of their very own real enough insecurity! As for little me as a tiny boy i used the cardboad grocery box to make a fort or indeed of determed nature of making do with what i had, a castle for my little plastic soldiers to protect from all comers be they equalised foe or magical creations of my over active mind of inquisitive reasoning. However with my days now having no students to fill it, i'll just carry on a short while longer teaching the smilies who will value and benefit others to gain a greater or lesser reward. Why? Because some dreams are small and in that sence off the peg things upon shelving dominate them toward a far lesser form of contentment. As for myself a poor widows son,i have always enjoyed cutting out while sticking a this to that and so on.

Stay safe,stay well guys
and help others along your way.
It will help them to help others
And so it will continue! BB
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Posted by Beano Boy on 06 Feb 2026, 00:54

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:coffee: A bit of a dingy dip look but it brightened up nicely later on.
:mrgreen: As you will see below. :mrgreen: It all makes work for all the little smilies to do.
:eh: Wa'well ya'kan ca,count me'he out! :read: hands up all who want wingnut to speak proper english again? And so it was.... :coffee: :cowboy: :read: :mrgreen: :sst: :beer: That everyone agreed to here his wonderful ring to their ears again.
:coffee: Yes i agree guys but only after WingNut earns it.

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When He Earns It... did keep resounding within WingNuts inner workings that all the time demanded command of sound reason,but therein lay a conflict of trying to reason things out. For WingNut was a fellow of heart that would always ask questions without the ability of retaining the answers within his rather confused head of a reamed out left handed twist. Hense his name WingNut!

:eh: 'When he earns it'...Oh! That sounds good to me,however I feel something is coming and it is going to be directed straight as an arrow at me. :mrgreen: Well whatever it is your on your own mate.

A Twist in a Tale ...The Rise of WingNut

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:mrgreen: There are no chimneys BB. :coffee: Yes i realised this but i'll put WingNut , on site to rectify and correct this short fall. :eh: Oh! My! You mean i have to correct a fall that is short? :mrgreen: Rather you than me WingNut! :sst: i believe you will need a ton of bricks to start the pile up of materials needed. :eh: What the heck do i do with bricks by the ton? :sst: oh! we can help you figure it all out wingnut! :mrgreen: We can? I mean yes we can. :cowboy: Well Pard,you'll need lot's of Pot's too. :eh: Pot's! What cooking pot's? Flower pot's? :mrgreen: No! Chimney Pot's! :cowboy: And concrete slab's too. :eh: What on earth for? :read: ah! Let me see the list required. I'mmmm... Oh! Yes you'll also need a ton of sharp sand and concrete to mix it all up.
:eh: No, No, You guys are having a laugh? :mrgreen: :cowboy: :read: As if we would do such a horrid thing as that WingNut. .
:sst: after taking stock of it all, then you will need lots of water and glue too.
:eh: What ever for? :mrgreen: For the mixing up of all that plastersized mud.

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:eh: It never rains... it downright pours!

Upon my Return :coffee: Ok Wingnut? :eh: Well i supose that I am BB. :coffee: Good! By the way WingNut did you figure out what the job in hand needs? :eh: Well let me see my list BB. I'mmm... We will need a ton of bricks,slabes of concrete and chimney pots along with a ton of sharp sand and concrete mix too along with white plastersizer glue and of course lots of water for all the mixing!

:coffee: i was so impressed with WingNut that i made him project manager so after i order enough tools for the other smilies to do the job in hand he will therefore be in complete charge! :eh: ah! It will be pure bliss and i'll not even get me mits muddy at all. :coffee: And no blisters! . :mrgreen:Well BB, :sst: how on earth did you... :cowboy: Dream this one up? :read:Well it's all written down in Sir Percys Log Book! Mentioned the well read Book Worm.

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:coffee: And so it was a few more casting were siliconed together which made it very quick and easy to do...... after all it was all worked out well before they were removed from their moulds. Planing ahead of Time i like to call it.

:coffee: OK! i hope you'll visit again soon.
Stay safe, stay well and help out others if you can. BB
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Posted by Beano Boy on 06 Feb 2026, 07:17

:coffee: It was both interesting and challenging too,because i needed what i would term a 'cradle mould', which was certainly a test of my abillity to formulate such a thing! :mrgreen: However all did not go as BB,had planed! :eh: And funny things got out of hand.
:read: Well one has to laugh some time...
:coffee: So why not now?

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:coffee: So once more i applied the 'Chaos Theory ' within my world of arts and crafts. :read: It mainly is the Science of Surprise!
:beer: An there's a whopper coming, Burp! :sst: bb that new fellow is drunk! :coffee: i know... :cowboy: I guess he'll have ta go.
:eh: Count me out I'm not getting rid of him. :mrgreen: No we'll not get rid of him in that way....We'll just shove him onto some one elses toppic so they can suffer like we have.

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:coffee: It's looking good. :cowboy: Well get on with it Pard!
:mrgreen: It looks a bit iffy to me. :sst: this is so thrilling!
:eh: Don't count e'm chicken's afore em hatch!
:beer: I'll drink ta that! Burp!
:eh: Eh! That new guy is P..t! out of his head!
:beer: High most cer.. certainly ham! Burp!

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:coffee: And so the big day arrived when..... Thud! Happened.

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:coffee: :cowboy: :mrgreen: :sst: :read: Surprise!

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:coffee: And to counter that happening again i trimed the silicone mould down with my craft knife. :mrgreen: Crazy BB!

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These are the trimmed off pieces and now the silicone mould will be a little bit more flexable instead of rather stiff.
:mrgreen: No more twisted off heads please. :eh: It were a sight that scared me stiff.

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:coffee: And so i tried again after placing the mould upon the box which is just an empty plastic container.

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:coffee: This time with a sprig of twisted wire! :cowboy: Well Pard's that's one heck of a neck job. :read: the neck bone was pushed into place after that place was full of bb's casting up splosh!
:mrgreen: Then the rest of it was cast up level and true.

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:coffee: And so it was production began once more with not another one losing a head. :mrgreen: :eh: If we were on You Tube,and heads started rolling about willy nilly they would rate us with a great big X... :eh: Would they? :sst: they would most certainly do it. :read: never mind that,things are starting to pop around here. :beer: I'll drink to that! Buuurp!

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:coffee: It all ended well and another page was turned upon this topsy turvy space where anything within reason might take up a little light hearted space.
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Posted by MABO on 06 Feb 2026, 07:22

Already so much more to see. Cool pics as well.

And I was touched by your post and your idea of endless support!
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Posted by Santi Pérez on 08 Feb 2026, 19:19

Wow, Mr BB, you are tireless with your silicone mould creations; it's clear that you enjoy it. Those sphinxes in particular look fantastic. You've done a great work! :drool: :drool: :drool:

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Posted by Beano Boy on 09 Feb 2026, 10:52

:coffee: Thank you Jan, and Santi,for your nice comment! :thumbup: Bravo! :thumbup: Bravo!
As a rather unothodox artist author upon the internet, It is very true that during my day,every day i enjoy using my overactive mind to plan and eventually make things using that know how which i aquired during my long serving stand within The University of Life. :sst: that is the best uni there is.
:eh: Can i study there? :mrgreen: You already are WingNut! :eh: Well no one told me,and here i am with not a pen, paper or pencle to my name. :beer: But, Burp! Why would you like to study there WingNut? :eh: Well I would like to be able to read what I am saying here upon this space! :mrgreen: That's a good point!



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:coffee: Directly high above on view is the inner side of one of my fortified city gates! It along with others need engraving in certain area's and although i do have such a wonderful tool for light buzzing to the average ear drum,but such as i am i cannot do such a thing at this present time.... i am to a greater degree quite busy! :mrgreen: So it will have to wait. :eh: Eh! But BB,ain't going anywhere soon so he'll pick up where whim takes him later.

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:read: Some might well remember him from the Library that does not exist. He is of course...Sir Percy E'Nots G' Nivil, a Discoverer of strange New Worlds and he is seen here holding his Journal of great worth... a something that has cost many their lives.... He has become rather attatched to it in more ways than just one. And he has travelled through time and space to find the key to a certain clock which belonged to Mr Glad Grind, the Master of many who resided at Half Way House,near the Post Mill and the tiny villages of Honeywell,and Old Catton,which have stood since medieval times just outside of the boundry line of the City of Norwich,in Norfolk ,where all are nestled in the ancient Evergreen Woodland of Great Britain.

:coffee: Today Builders are due to start conversions of their own kind in our little white house. It is for my benifit and will fit in to my requirements hopefully making my daily needs much better... and hopefully ease my topsy turvy self into a new routine.
:mrgreen: :eh: :cowboy: :read: :sst: :coffee: Until our next return,
stay safe,stay well and help others if you can. BB
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Posted by Michael Robert on 11 Feb 2026, 13:05

Hi BB,
perform mouldings as you do is always my dream. However, I am focusing on 1/72 size, much smaller. Difficulties are a bit differnet on that level. Most of all I have much less objects available to copy. Always desperately searching for things which could be good models for building parts or other, but not so lucky until now.
Also, resolution of details is different.

Always instructive your posts - and fun
Greetings :thumbup:
Michael
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Posted by Beano Boy on 11 Feb 2026, 17:40

:coffee: Hello Michael Robert. thank you kindly for commenting,upon this,my own topic of quirky untidiness! Although i am not autistic i have sailed throughout my life being interested in patterns of this,that or the other. Well as a boy my schooling such as it was,was a nightmare for my little head of pondering to come to terms with.
Thankfully as an adult i thrived upon learning that which i at least was well interested in. Higher Engineering was a fresh breeze to me because it dealt with solving problems and avoiding pitfalls that would cost loads of dosh to put right ,and i soon realised the most important thing it helped others to work within a safety zone too.

:sst: sometimes one must make a stand and fully realise what the trash is!

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:coffee: This packaging produced the rather moist, dark,dank and dingy Dalek Tomb to a story that is clearly unwritten at this exceptional unparalleled time period of Orange Kings and Armies of ICE! However as a combat veteran myself, this is still ongoing and at this time i do not make light of it.

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:coffee: And so it was i folded this picture here as a reminder,of who i am and what i once was, for i tend to be foregetful in my abstract way of bumbling about in time and space. BB
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