when you make dollfie shoes they recommend using a paper cup to make the mold for the last. you half fill the cup with the moulding agent, alginate, and insert the doll's foot, then top up. then you remove the foot before the alginate is completely set and when it is you add whatever it is you're making the stuff out of (plaster) alginate is cheap as anything, and comes in big boxes, so you can happily buy a set of paper cups and make as many of them as you need with one set of alginate. the paper cup won't leak and although the alginate should in theory just peel off (like a sock) it's my experience that it doesnt.
Sometimes being a dollfie owner does come in handy.
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Date: 2006-09-05 12:07 pm (UTC)you half fill the cup with the moulding agent, alginate, and insert the doll's foot, then top up.
then you remove the foot before the alginate is completely set and when it is you add whatever it is you're making the stuff out of (plaster)
alginate is cheap as anything, and comes in big boxes, so you can happily buy a set of paper cups and make as many of them as you need with one set of alginate. the paper cup won't leak and although the alginate should in theory just peel off (like a sock) it's my experience that it doesnt.
Sometimes being a dollfie owner does come in handy.