ImprobableCast

Stick around, you may learn something! For all things casting, molding and prototyping in resin, rubber and silicone.

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Come see me and @valleydweller his weekend at Designer Con Booth #818 #toys #mandatoryfun

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Booth #818 DesignerCon me and @valleydweller will have a bunch more of stuff. Come by and say Hi!

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@jasonedmistonart Electric Pink Frankenberry available online this Friday! Sculpt by Barsom, cast by me in @smoothon Smooth-Cast 305 with copious amounts of Ignite Red pigment #resin #art

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes...

I mentioned before that some changes were coming to my business and it has come up a few times already so here are the bullet points:

- Over the coming year or so, I will be moving away from resin production and into onshore vinyl production, short run injection molding, IP/product development and R&D.

- Resin volume production will be very rare and limited to existing customers in good standing and new customers interested in partnerships where we share the cost AND the end profit. I will happily refer people looking for toll manufacturing services to other production outlets.

- Mold and cast troubleshooting for commercial ventures is no longer free. I've been giving it away for 5 years so if I haven't answered your question by now, you missed the boat. All inquiries of this type will be quoted a consultation rate of $20 per hour remote or $300 per day onsite (+ travel for clients outside of my drive-able area). This is an unfortunate casualty of increasing demands on my time and a handful of people taking advantage of my kindness.

- Prototyping services will remain largely unchanged.

- Wax sales will remain largely unchanged except that the minimum order quantity will increase from 0.5 pounds to 2 pounds. Price per pound will remain $12 + shipping for all formulas.

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Early Father's Day/Breaking My Ass in the Studio present to myself. @badteethcomics Cheestroyer! #gid #vinyl

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Convention mode: ACTIVATE! #cantstopwontstop #onmygrind #halfmyweightinmaterial

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Wahoo! I can finally show this piece. Sculpted by Barsom with Sue Beatrice. Art direction by Yours Truly. Based on the ever lovely Kato, this fully licensed sculpture will be available as an unpainted garage kit with sculpted skirt, an unpainted garage kit with bare legs and fabric to make the skirt and fully painted versions of both. Email [email protected] for full info and to be added to the mailing list to be notified of the launch. Production will commence very soon and a preorder system will be made available. Thanks to everyone involved with this project, I could not be more pleased with how this project came out!

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Listen to me blabber on the latest episode of the Kastor's Korner Podcast! In which I yammer endlessly about Hiroki Hayashi's Polar Bear Mascot Girl, Doug from Arsenic Lullabies and his graciousness, and the @shiflettbros #podcast #toys

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Pro-tip

For my resin casters out there: Always keep your miscasts (mine are in a bucket). They make great test figures for color schemes, trying new paint, primer, glue or other finishing products. They can be cut, ground, tapped or machined into stands, plinths, jigs or filler. It's only junk if you treat it that way!

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Penny is helping me work out a possible paint scheme for the @shiflettbros Executioner kit. She us leaning toward "all red"... #garagekit #paint #fixitlater #citadel #vallejo #acrylic

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Wonderfest and SDCC prep begins! #resin #silicone #smoothon #garagekits

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Huge congratulations are in order to the @shiflettbros for their #Spectrum Fantastic #Art GOLD Award in the Dimensional category for their "Vertical Man-Tank, 1892" I am fortunate to call them clients and friends. #moldmakertothestars

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Workbench snapshot

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Didn't have any gel coat handy so I mixed up a batch of #polyester #resin 1:1 with @smoothon Ure-Fil 15 glass microballoons. It started to gel by the time I made the video but it worked great!

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New @smoothon Smooth-Cast 66D. IT IS GREY! #prototyping #modelkits #garagekits

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All of this will become art and toys. #smoothon

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Final cleanup on the brand new @shiflettbros Executioner #garagekit! 6", tall, solid resin, 2 parts. The first run is ALMOST SOLD OUT so please, if you are interested, email brandon at shiflettbrothers dot com to reserve one. $65 + $10 shipping. Supporting my peeps supports me, so show them some love! Made with @smoothon Smooth-Cast 300 #resin and a teeny bit of So-Strong Black #tint.