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Lieutenant L · 02-08-2008

Hi everyone

Just thought i would pass this on - it isnt a majorly detailed tutorial - but hopefully it will pass on my idea

The whole idea started 2 and a bit years ago when i had a sculptor do me a pad for my DiY marines army, a guy from GW HQ went through some casting ideas with me before i really knew much about it

Anyways - i didnt think much of it and left it at that, then i started a BA army a few weeks ago - the idea of sculpting each pad was my original idea but sounded like it would be problematic because well, there might be some dis-similarities

Right at this time i was doing some silicon moulds for a mask project, so i stuck a rough BA pad sculpt onto the moulding box, boxed it in and poured my silicon to leave me with a 1 part mould of my design

I then took a clean marines pad - drilled a hole in this ( where my logo was going to be )
Took a ball of GS and put it roughly into the mould and then squashed the clean shoulder pad into the mould
What happens is the GS fills the mould logo - then the excess GS comes straight out of the hole in the shoulder pad which can just be scraped away leaving with a pretty much perfect GS logo on a GW plastic pad

What is a cool thing about this method is if your careful - the GS wont stick to the mould much as it is silicon and pops out so multiple pads can be done quickly with 1 shoulderpad

Some pics to explain what im on about
Moulding Board - the shoulderpad is up in the top right of the photo - just foam board and blu-tac used to box it in

This is the silicon mould with a shoulderpad in it with a GS BA logo going onto it - note the hole in the back and excess GS which has gone through it - if there wasnt a hole it would bulk up the logo or ruin the shape

The final pad with the silicon mould - removed after about 5 minutes ( henc why it isnt clean - the GS around the logo on the pad is thin enough to just come off with a nail scratch )

As said, just thought i would pass it on as a way of reproducing army pads quickly - the design on this pad was just a simple idea to test the idea, but soon plan to try it with more detailed designs

thanks,
L

02-08-2008	#1 (permalink)
Lieutenant L Conscript Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0 Thanks: 1 Thanked 8 Times in 2 Posts	GS logos on marines shoulder pads Hi everyone Just thought i would pass this on - it isnt a majorly detailed tutorial - but hopefully it will pass on my idea The whole idea started 2 and a bit years ago when i had a sculptor do me a pad for my DiY marines army, a guy from GW HQ went through some casting ideas with me before i really knew much about it Anyways - i didnt think much of it and left it at that, then i started a BA army a few weeks ago - the idea of sculpting each pad was my original idea but sounded like it would be problematic because well, there might be some dis-similarities Right at this time i was doing some silicon moulds for a mask project, so i stuck a rough BA pad sculpt onto the moulding box, boxed it in and poured my silicon to leave me with a 1 part mould of my design I then took a clean marines pad - drilled a hole in this ( where my logo was going to be ) Took a ball of GS and put it roughly into the mould and then squashed the clean shoulder pad into the mould What happens is the GS fills the mould logo - then the excess GS comes straight out of the hole in the shoulder pad which can just be scraped away leaving with a pretty much perfect GS logo on a GW plastic pad What is a cool thing about this method is if your careful - the GS wont stick to the mould much as it is silicon and pops out so multiple pads can be done quickly with 1 shoulderpad Some pics to explain what im on about Moulding Board - the shoulderpad is up in the top right of the photo - just foam board and blu-tac used to box it in This is the silicon mould with a shoulderpad in it with a GS BA logo going onto it - note the hole in the back and excess GS which has gone through it - if there wasnt a hole it would bulk up the logo or ruin the shape The final pad with the silicon mould - removed after about 5 minutes ( henc why it isnt clean - the GS around the logo on the pad is thin enough to just come off with a nail scratch ) As said, just thought i would pass it on as a way of reproducing army pads quickly - the design on this pad was just a simple idea to test the idea, but soon plan to try it with more detailed designs thanks, L Last edited by Lieutenant L; 02-08-2008 at 03:57 PM.