as of now i am at a camp for animatronics and toy design, and today we began to work with the molding

i am in a university lab with all kinds of plastic molding equipment (massive room wide machines), such as injection molders, vaccum former, and many more, including metal

had i known this, i would have brought a few pieces to mold and replicate, but i didnt. I am however working on an a US crate that i will mold and copy

will definetly use this knowledge to help with modeling, and am even learning more tomorrow!!!

That's cool... enjoy yourself and tell us more

MOLD a ROBOT

hey Josh do they use rubber or metal molds to cast a whole sprue of model parts? just curius

Hi all!

Talking about molding! Does anyone know of a website with detailled pictures of the molding process of a plastic kit? I never saw such pictures on the web! Is this Top Secret?

Jean-Luc

Muttley,
Production tooling used to produce sprues for injection molded plastic kits is made out of stainless steel (most of the time.)
No rubber...

Shaun

Josh you lucky guy - keep your ears open and your mouth shut mate and you will find out soooo much
I envy you
ian

Josh-ditto what Ian says.Very cool you lucky guy!What school is this and what where is this camp?
Cheers!

Sounds great! I think I would'nt work there at all, but keep making models for myself :-)