Making a silicone mould using the brush-on technique

Check our podcast: After you’ve taken a lifecast of a performer, you have a solid copy of their face. This is presumably an accurate copy which has recorded the surface of their anatomy as true as is possible. Are we to then leap straight to the joyous distraction of making your modifications – making the nose bigger, changing the chin, adding a wound or a scar, or completely remodelling their face to change them entirely? It is worth taking a moment to recall this original cast you took of the performer is a precious object – it is the only one you have and presumably it was gained at great cost. Drop it and we’ve had it! Now you have this perfect head shape, it is time to make a master mould (usually in silicone) to allow copies to be made. Now we can produce multiple versions in a harder plaster for sculpts to be floated/separated off at a later date or make lightweight versions for attaching finished appliances to for painting or shipping