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• Alginate and Silicone (including instructional video)
  

• Get instructional DVD and other supplies at Sculpture Supply Canada on Munster Ave. in Toronto
  

• About ''Alja-Safe'' Alginate
  

• About ''Body Double'' Silicone, a silicone rubber that can be applied directly to the skin to make fast and lasting molds of the face, hands and other body parts.
  

• ''Body Double'' Silicone Technical Notes
  

• Quantities of ''Body Double'' needed for life casting
  

• Squirrel Mixer attach to power drill
  

• Liquid rubber make copy out of Ecoflex or Dragon Skin

• Instructional Videos from TAP Plastics
  

• How to make molds and castings
  

• Moldmaking
  

• How to make flexible molds
  

• How to make a box mold
  

• How to make a two-piece mold
  

• Casting
  

• Metal cold casting
  

• Fun with casting resin
  

• Making More than One: Techniques for Casting Perfect Parts in Rapid-Cure Resins by Tom Piccirillo using Micro-Mark CR-600 Casting Resin
  

• Casting in Urethane Foam
  

• Molding and Casting Tutorial from Fab Central
  

• Creating a body cast (N.B. uses fiberglass and is dangerous)
  

• Making Paverpol mummies
  

• Make a plastic cast of an LP or 45, Make 3:124-126.
  

• Project: soft silicon night lights from Sparkle Labs, Make 3:135-139.
  

• Jorge Manes' rotobowling
  

• Casting humanoid hands for a small robot