Model Making Materials

Advanced Mouldmaking and Casting by Nick Brooks.

Nick Brooks has thirty years experience as an artist and teacher of techniques in sculpture.

The scope and potential of mouldmaking and casting is fascinating, and makes it one of the most exciting processes available to today's craftsmen. Its opportunities have been developed and expanded further by a range of new methods and materials only recently made available to the domestic market.

Supported by step-by-step sequences and full descriptions of traditional processes as well as new methods, this book is an invaluable learning and reference tool aimed at model makers, craftsmen, artists, theatre designers and film makers.

Chapters: Multiple-Piece 'Cored' Silicone Rubber, Plas-ti-shim, Large-Scale Press Moulding on Site, Life Moulding Silicone, Jesmonite Multiple Piece, Clay Slip Moulding and Casting, Jesmonite, Polyurethane Resins and Expanding Foam, Bioresin, Embedding in Clear Resin, Silicone Rubber, Slush Casting, Multiple-Piece Casting & Finishing.

• Hardback 260 x 215mm
• 160 pages
• 212 Colour photographs

Information sheet available for our Resin & Metal Casting Service (1.8Mb PDF).