April Wilkerson molds and casts your hand with alginate and plaster, creating a memorable, personalized DIY project.

Before 3-D printers, orthodontists had to mix a material called alginate, which patients had to keep in their mouth for about 3 minutes until it hardened.

If lifecasting your head, there are nose holes made so you can breathe After the mold is created, it gets TLC from special effects artist: smoothing, polishing As a special effects artist, Alan ...

Smith then pours cement into the mold and waits 24 hours before carefully peeling the alginate off the sculpture. Detailing the statue is the next step.

The key is using alginate, a natural polymer derived from brown seaweed, to form the mold. The first step was to suspend the PLA model in a flowerpot with the holes blocked.

The gum mold would be soft and yielding, so she covered my alginate-coated breast in a thick layer of Plaster of Paris to create a “mother mold” to hold its shape.

Hydrogel injection molding is a viable alternative to three-dimensional bioprinting, offering efficiency, scalability and reproducibility for even complex 3D cell-laden geometries and high ...

Movement of the fingers does not seem to matter because, when the alginate solidifies, the position is fixed. The alginate will remain flexible enough to easily remove the extremity from the mold.