Re: The Wolf-man's tank!

Randy W. Wolfmeyer wrote:

>Is it a bad idea to paint it before casting it?  Is it that the rubber
>will ruin the paint job, or will the paint ruin the casting?  Or is it
>both?
>
>Randy
>
It won't be too disastrous if the model is painted - we've taken moulds 
from masters that have been painted. One possibility is that the paint 
will adhere to the mould and come off as the master is pulled away. 
Beyond ruining your paint job, it means that the first few castings 
could come out with bits of paint stuck to them, which might mar the 
finish. The very first resin mould we ever made was of a painted master 
of a 1/300th church - that one stuck to the mould so well we had to 
literally destroy it to get it out of the mould. Somewhere I still have 
a little ziplock bag full of shards of plastic card and modelling clay. 
Don't panic, though - this was an exception to the rule, all of the 
others have been fine.

Tony