silicone moulding with BB

[Beano Boy]

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

[Beano Boy]

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



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!

'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. Well whatever it is your on your own mate.

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



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



It never rains... it downright pours!

Upon my Return Ok Wingnut? Well i supose that I am BB. Good! By the way WingNut did you figure out what the job in hand needs? 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!

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! ah! It will be pure bliss and i'll not even get me mits muddy at all. And no blisters! . Well BB, how on earth did you... Dream this one up? Well it's all written down in Sir Percys Log Book! Mentioned the well read Book Worm.



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.

OK! i hope you'll visit again soon.
Stay safe, stay well and help out others if you can. BB

[Beano Boy]

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! However all did not go as BB,had planed! And funny things got out of hand.
Well one has to laugh some time...
So why not now?



So once more i applied the 'Chaos Theory ' within my world of arts and crafts. It mainly is the Science of Surprise!
An there's a whopper coming, Burp! bb that new fellow is drunk! i know... I guess he'll have ta go.
Count me out I'm not getting rid of him. 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.



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



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



Surprise!



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



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



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



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



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



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.

[MABO]

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

And I was touched by your post and your idea of endless support!

[Santi Pérez]

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!

Santi.

[Beano Boy]

Thank you Jan, and Santi,for your nice comment! Bravo! 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. that is the best uni there is.
Can i study there? You already are WingNut! Well no one told me,and here i am with not a pen, paper or pencle to my name. But, Burp! Why would you like to study there WingNut? Well I would like to be able to read what I am saying here upon this space! That's a good point!





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! So it will have to wait. Eh! But BB,ain't going anywhere soon so he'll pick up where whim takes him later.



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.

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.
Until our next return,
stay safe,stay well and help others if you can. BB

[Michael Robert]

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
Michael

[Beano Boy]

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.

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



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.




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

[Beano Boy]

My Bridge & Canal Parts
The Easiest Way That i Know Of
To Aid the Arts & Crafts in Others


The Lego bricks,along with their base and my Patterns were well oiled over with Baby Oil,which i use as a parting agent. Eh! Why? Because it is simply the best product to use. I must try hard to remember this.


My own free style Polystyrene sheet Pattern making process,that is easy upon my hands and arms to do. Unlike that other hard rock-like Blue Styrene stuff that needs a hacking,scraping and deep hard set into place scribing! My Poly... is softer and more plyerble and so is a very easy action of penmanship activity to draw upon. And so no undue stress or pain was placed upon me in my own process of taking care. Go for it BB,

Ok,My o my i do like making a mess! However first a few words of shop safty...Warning Never Wear Plastic Gloves while making moulds. It will end badly for you because silicone is great at sticking to plastic fingers and you will be a well trained westler after trying hard to get free of them. BB,has been there, and has done that. We all make mistakes but we can learn by them.
Eh! I never did.




A good grounding bed of Cornflour! And a streaming out of Silicone and ......




...... a good squeeze out of baby oil. Then i got to mixing it all together using a couple of paper cards to mix it in. Then i used my oiled up hands to make it an oily doughlike dumpling neading it to one hand than back to the other one.
Then it was carefully laid into place and pressed home into each moulding box pressing the air out and lastly smoothed over with... BB's old time Butter Knife. It is just a simple song.... Yes with only a Title... And with not a single line of lyrics! i will raise me glass ta that, Burp! Eh?
This place has turned into a shin,dig! : Perhaps Gunnar can supply his own charm of music?



Having been well educated upon the head falling off page i desided to twim off the edges in order to make them flimsy but quite capable of taking the pressure of the wet splodge being tipped into them.



It all was well worth taking time out to explore what might well be possible with a little patience applied upon the matter.



These are very expensive to buy upon the high street or upon the internet,but i being a poor boy found the way long ago how to become greedy!




Well you might be able to understand that i always needed more than one,two or even three? But Pard! You pass the word along to others...

so others can become greedy in a good sence of the word.



And so it was recorded in BB's Journal what was needed next... But what is it for?



Until the next part i'll leave you with this. These are 20mm Figures made from a simple single silicone mould. Fantasy is what one can make others believe is possible without upsetting them. BB

[Beano Boy]

Many years ago i bought a whole set of these that were on sale from America on E Bay,upon that sale the information was that they were from a well thought of collection that had held up a very large wedding cake way back in the1970's. i won the Bid,and as soon as they arrived i began making the silicone moulds. One of my casting's which is seen here is of a fine tall Greco Roman Column, half of which is still within my first mould. The other half of the silicone mould lay on the table top to the left.When things reach a certain stage of success the smile can be from ear to ear.

Stay safe,stay well,
and help others if you can.BB

[MABO]

Which scale do you think has your column, Paul? It is really good looking!

[sberry]

I really appreciate how you share your experiences here. I think you've truly mastered the art of mold making – have you ever considered selling some of your casts?*

(*where it would possbile without any copyrights hassle…)

[Santi Pérez]

Which scale do you think has your column, Paul? It is really good looking!

I completely agree with Jan that that column looks very good, BB.

Taking BB's hand as a reference, I think it would work perfectly for a 1/72 scale model of a good-sized temple, Jan.

Santi.

[MABO]

I completely agree with Jan that that column looks very good, BB.

Taking BB's hand as a reference, I think it would work perfectly for a 1/72 scale model of a good-sized temple, Jan.

Santi.

Exactly!

[Beano Boy]

Having Fun With Beano Boy

Well Jan, figures 20mm or 1/72 scale would be cool for my unusual 8ince column,most are only 6 inches.
Sberry,thank you for your interest and question. you are a good fellow. I'll drink to that. Burp! that guy is drunk again bb. He'll have to go! I sort of like him because i take his empty bottles back to the Pub,and they pay me 10p for each one. Now then i must get on guys...Although the columns i used as pattern's were bought when i was a lot younger they are well over 75 years old.
So no copyright upon those, however i determined long ago never to let my hobby become my living, because things get lost and get broken in the post and simply put i do not need such a demanding thing. It is my delight and happiness to show part of the way to help others but i don't wish to sell or trade them.
Well you can help that drunk fellow upon his way.
But that will cost me a loss of £2.00 a day for not returning them bottles. Well Pard that's good money. We must get on.. Look Out! For that bottle it's a rolling down the pathway. Phew! i just managed to stop it spinning away. Well Pard,I reckon on that bottle belonging to me!
No,not on your Nelly it's mine.
I.i,i,Love a good punch up!..Burp! No we'll have none of that here...And you two are going down in BB's Report Book.

Eh! i never realised that i had one....As always i am a very unorthodox artist author upon the Internet,Well why be like everyone else? i look at many shapes of various things in the quest to find the unusual that i might be able to use for my sci-fi story book tales.



And so upon a whim i developed these columns too and flat walls and thereby produced my castings from stuff i poured into my silicone moulds. i guess some might well remember what they were made from? It certainly was an unusual item of which there are many designs. Designs that we might see but never realise their potential in the arts and craft world of make believe.

He! he! Yes,they were once Bike Handle Bar Grips!
they sure were,they all agreed.

Here below are things that make sense to use for high rise pictorial adventures!





For all those interested in the shape or form of those on show above. On E Bay Pard's just google Roman Column's for Cake Stands. They are cheap as chips, but that depends upon ones own project size and layout! But i only need one BB. Well that's tough WingNut, because now you'll have none! they do come cheaper by the dozen and plastic is still pretty cool to use upon what ones dream is.

That is very true little button.
Ok Guys,Stay safe, stay well and Help others if you can.
I'll see you on the next one.BB

[Beano Boy]

Well i have found it interesting enough to carry on with this odyssey of ancient climbs, which now takes us to the flight of steps.... They being PLAYMOBIL steps! This is making do with what one can find. Although i must admit that i had to await many a passing year before i realised these plastic toy features,and what use they were well suited for. i have used them in many of my own photo shoot's to create the illusion of ripping yarns.
High above the construction box with the steps and base was awaiting the baby oil to be applied all over them. Then the silicone filled this one sided mould.... Which is the most simplest mould to make and then fill later when casting up and leveling off. With the flashing blade... of bb,s butter knife! I can never remember that item. Burp! That's just what Wingnuts do...Burp! You best take it somwhere else cause Wingnuts a Pard of mine! My,My Benno, certainly don't need this burping drunk attitude to spill out over his Forum. Well i do feel a little sick....... BBBurppp!!!!! SPLOSH! Watch out guys. Opp's! Thanx 4 the warning BB,i near slipped on that. after this folly i will be made redundant again. Come on Wingnut,look upon the good side of your life... an the twenty bottles you have today to take to the pub.
And so it was recorded as it happend... Yes a live stream! Eh! A what?..... Strange indeed i feel something is coming. What ever could that be?



i guess this iconic building in America,is well worth looking at because these are like my columns! They along with mine have the same crown and bases...All that needed doing was to make the mould to produce them. Another thing is i have three sizes of Patterns! Eh What?
they are the 8 inch, 6 inch and the 5 inch.

OK! Guys,i'll see you.....

TIME SLIP!







What has happend to Sir Percy's Libray? She asked in posh English!

Look who just popped in.... it's missy! From 1898!
There you go. I just felt a some-thing was coming!

Take care guys,
Have fun but stay safe
and help others if you can. BB

[Beano Boy]

My old and trusted method of drawing to scale brickwork. The fact that each brick had been raised above the morter line that lay between each one. By way of using thick P V A Glue globed on by way of a little brush in order to do a very unusual thing! patience is a virtue. Mentioned the little button.



The photograph above reveals a simple core box cradle made with scrap paper card and held together with dress makers pins! This is the up side down doodle of a camera shot. Eh? WingNut, seemed his usual self as he viewed this oddity!



After the final angled pins were set deep firm into place It was filled and then...



What it produced was a silicone core pattern. Eh, what? Asked WingNut.
It's ha!ha! Ha! Lump... Burp! Yes i agree he's got to go.
It might not be what you think?

i'll see you perhaps upon the next part,
Until then take care and stay well,and yes help others if you can. BB

[Beano Boy]

What was made in the core box,was the inside pattern of my bridge parts,a sample is displayed unpainted. Many years ago i made a water way canal with bridges and tunnels at each end. Eh! But how did that lump produce that bridge part ? It's a puzzling mystery!



well it is hardly one of those because bb is going to reveal it and show the way. Hmm!... i am?.. O, yes of course i am. It may not be what you think? Well Pards,the builders have arrived to finish BB's Wet Room!

OK! i'll get bact to you all later. BB

[Beano Boy]

Hi Guy's i'm back with the next photograph which hopefully can be viewed above? see i told you that bb,will show the way of it. But what is it? It's the lump with two sides added to it. It's a BB,pin up! don't be silly its a humpty thing a me jig! It is a core box with the pattern inside it. Replied the little book worm. Yippy! Cried out the Cowboy,who seems to have quite a loud voice.



Corn flour and Silicon plus Baby Oil,mixed this up fine smooth and Dandy,for a small lad as little me. bb,is a very large man who writes sci fi fiction! Which means he gets to lie every day. Yes very true!
Eh! That can't be,can it? Of course it is it is fiction!



And so it was the core box pattern was well plastered over into its final shape, and with the pins removed along with the sidings a free standing shape was easily removed. !'ll drink to that,cause i am well plastered, Burp!



To ease the removal of the casting i removed a good wedge of solid silicon, by using my Mrs B's sharpest kitchen knife.



we love it when a plan comes together.



''Paul have seen my large sharp kitchen knife? '' Opp's! BB, will be in the dog house again.



Well this process being a universal pattern for the inside of more than one bridge part. Other castings produced in the same way were included within my other canal bridges.



Ok Guys, i'll get back to you later.
Until then take care.... and stay well... And help others if you can. BB

[Beano Boy]

As the column's cast their shadows upon such a blue....

Missy,of course did not find Sir Percy's Library,but arrived in a most wonderful place within another time zone far into the future of 13/03/2026.
O'my! This is getting very deep for my little head with lug's made for twisting!
Of course WingNut,is kind'a special him being like a Tigger, after all he too is the only one.



As for my self i set to.To sort out my Lego bricks for that which i would need once all the banging'sawing and sounded working man's boots stopped upon our stair case steps. Those working guys were very able at what they were doing and were very friendly too. Mrs B,plyed e'm with tea and biscuits as they beavored away doing my wet room to suit my special needs.

It might be the case,we are all going upon an adventure. Well Pard's,me and Cyclops are certainly up for it. Sounded out the Cowboy upon his ancient one eyed invisible steed. He always looks as if he is riding a broom stick! Chuckled out Mr Green.



yes,there he goes upon his two galopping legs! Well i cannot see anything! Wingnut said as the dust of such an invisible steed was kicked up upon the high wind of complete utter change.



Here i began, and did build up the double boxes that would house my slender elegant pattern's! i am so lucky charmed with being able to see all that which needs doing before starting this project. This one might be my last as i am very ill,but shucks! i aint dead yet and the quest to make do still continues on.



It was soon realised that i would need to add a piece of styrene just to fill a small space beneath each footing.



Now as you view these things boxed in...all is not what it appeares to be.
It is not a mystery though and i will reveal the eventful outing ahead.
So pull up a chair and follow along it is going to be great fun. C U Soon BB