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Makeup FX: prepainting a gel-00 appliance Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 345 seconds This is a PlatSil Gel-00 appliance cast in a hydrocal mold. Appliance was painted with thickened(tinthix) Gel-10 mixed with concetrated silicone pigments. |
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Makeup FX: Gel-00 application process Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 412 seconds Appliance made with Gel-00 applied with Gel-10 and blended with Skin Illustrator. Gel-00 is a new prosthetic silicone that sets up super soft and dry. Bonds well to Gel-10. |
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Gel-00 Appliance Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 133 seconds Appliance made with Gel-00 in a Hydrocal mold. This appliance was cast in Gel-00, pre-painted with Gel-10 and applied with Gel-10 as an appliance adhesive. Blending was done with Skin Illustrator makeup. Appliance was sculpted in Chavant NSP Soft. Lifecast was made using Accucast 880 alginate. |
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Mold Making: venting a 2 piece mold Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 319 seconds Here's the venting process for a 2 piece silicone mold. The vents here are simple but the same rules apply to more complicated parts. The mold was made in a previous video using Platsil 73-15. The cast was made using EZ Flo 60 casting resin. |
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Mold Making: 2 piece mold Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 578 seconds 2 piece Silicone mold made with PlatSil 73-15. We used a plywood frame to make a 2 piece silicone mold for casting EZ Flo 60 prop scissors. Mold was made with low viscosity platinum silicone. |
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Mold Making and Casting: EZ Flo 60 resin cast into alginate Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 416 seconds Here are some tips fr casting EZ Flo resin directly into an alginate mold. We used 16oz of EZ Flo 60 to pour a hand cast. We accelerated the resin with 6 drops of 15X resin accelerator in order to reduce the chance of bubbles or contamination on the resin cast surface. |
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Lifecasting: Hand Mold with Accucast 380 Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 517 seconds This is a simple hand mold made with Accucast 380 alginate. Accucast 380 changes color to indicate when to insert the subject's hand into the alginate. We mixed the alginate roughly 1:1 by volume. As you see in the video we added a little extra water sine this was a poured mold rather than a "layup" mold. 380 means that the alginate cures in 3 minutes with 80 degree water. |
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Mold Making and Casting: Casting resin in a urethane rubber mold Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 466 seconds This is a prop cast in a PT Flex 70 urethane mold. The cast is made by mixing PT Flex 50 with EZ Flo 60 50/50. The result is a semi-rigid cast. 2300 mold release was used to prevent the resin from bonding to the PT Flex urethane mold. PT Flex is a new series of quick setting urethane rubber products. |
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Mold making and casting: Glassrub 50 Pressure Casting Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 411 seconds Pressure casting GlassRub 50 to eliminate air bubbles. GlassRub 50 may be cast without pressure but may retail small "champagne" bubbles. GlassRub 50 may be used for casting props or mold making where precise cuts are required. Before you leave a comment asking "where can I get this stuff??" read the titles at the end with the webstore address. |
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Silicone Mold Making with 71-11 Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 479 seconds Making a mold under pressure to eliminate air bubbles. This technique may be used on some low viscosity silicones when pressure casting will be done in the mold. 71-11 is a low viscosity silicone with high tear strength with a Shore A value of 15. |
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BITY Seasons Greetings.mp4 Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 117 seconds A bit twisted, yes. Our good friends, Patrick and Leann gave us this little elf for the shop. We smelled a rat after Christmas turned south for everyone in the shop. Once we got our hands on the little devil we fixed all our Christmas woes. Or did we? Merry Christmas! |
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BITY Mold Supply PSA Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 157 seconds A public service announcement from BITY Mold Supply marking the 14th aniversary of the BITY name. Don't play with fire. |
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DMA + BITY = GMT Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 373 seconds Here's the culmination of my time at the DMA. This is the Good Morning Texas segment that featured our cast the lifecast at the DMA. |
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BITY at the DMA Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 150 seconds Here's a peek at what's been going on at the DMA this month. This is part of the C3 tech lab. |
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Behind The Scenes: Car stunt Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 115 seconds Here's a peek behind the scenes on a car stunt scene. |
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Resin coating Styro-Foam Props Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 445 seconds Using resin to add a hard coating to styro-foam props. This is a great way to make tough, out door decorations with scrap styro-foam. |
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Props made with Styro-foam Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 524 seconds How to make props with styro foam and metal coatings from Sculpt Nouveau. |
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Resin Casting: Cold Cast Bronze Process Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 549 seconds Here is the basic cold cast bronze process for creating realistic looking brozes for props and artwork. We used Sculpt Nouveau's wax products to finish out our piece. |
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Making a Resin Support Mold Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 361 seconds This is the follow up video to our brush on mold video with 71-20 silicone. Here we are making a support shell with 1512 resin thickened with PolyFiber to create a tough, rigid support mold for our flexible rubber mold. |
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Resin Coating Foam at Zombie Manor Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 171 seconds Zombie Manor Foam Coating. Dean of Zombie Manor needed some parts of his haunt coated with resin so BITY took a field trip to Zombie Manor. This is an overview of the foam coating process. We'll be posting more foam coating tips soon. Check out our other how-to videos and our channel which is full of Haunt related content. |
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Making a brush on mold with silicone Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 601 seconds This is the brush on mold process for 71-20 silicone. We used this method to minimize the ammount of rubber required for this piece. Check out our other videos for more mold making tips. |
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Painting with Gel-10 silicone Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 124 seconds This is the completed silicone casting from the 74-30 mold making video we posted last month. This is just some quick eye candy but feel free to check out our other videos for more info on silicone and our DVD if you want to jump in and get started. The DVD has all the info we can't cram into a youtube vid. All supplies are available on our webstore. |
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Making a Brush on Silicone Mold Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 590 seconds Brush on Silicone Mold using 70-30 silicone. This is a great mold making techniques for resin busts and or flexible foam casting. We made a simple plaster bandage support shell but a resin shel could also be made. Check out our other videos for mothermold construction tips. |
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Sculpting an open mouth in a TexClay head Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 309 seconds Had to put this one up just because if I don't I'll have everyone asking how I did this part when the silicone mold video is posted. This is just the prep for making a silicone mold with Tinsil 7030 silicone thickened with TinThix. |
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Advanced Silicone Mask Making Posted by: brickintheyard
Video duration: 564 seconds Here's a twist on the basic silicone mask process. In this video we started with a silicone face pulled from a 74-30 mold. The entire process took about 2 hours to complete and used about 2 lbs of Platsil Gel-10 silicone. |
