Thread: Liquid Latex

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I'm really keen to start creating some props and have with the help of all you kind folk on here, made myself a shopping list. I have been searching for liquid latex and the only one that I can find at a reasonable price is at a builders merchant 5l for £12.00, the rest of the latex I have found is at specialist theatrical make up supplies and this works out at anywhere from £25.00 up to £48.00 silly question I guess but is all liquid latex the same.

Unfortunately no.

That does not mean you can't USE different latex's for uses other than their design.

I would be curious if the builder's one was some kind of latex adhesive, which a lot of haunters use for corpsing and the like due to it's cost. You wouldn't want to make a mask out of it, however. Similarly, chances are the makeup stuff is slip latex, which is great for prosthetic pieces, but can get expensive to use for props.

What are you wanting to do with the latex?

For me, I use Mold Builder (brand name, not a type) latex for most my general purpose stuff, and special latex for makup effects.

The first place that comes up in google for a comparable latex to mold builder in the UK is here: http://www.maragon.co.uk/arts-and-crafts.html#Init (search latex) at 20.95 for 5L.

Thanks for the quick reply, from what I can gather the builders merchant latex is added to a floor levelling compound to make it flexible in some way.

I intend build myself two or three props that I can leave outside, I have been looking around the forum and I quite like the idea of using a wig head or a cheap skull to build my own face upon, and then pop that onto a body I want to do that instead of using a shop bought mask. I would like to try a mask eventually, but I think it may be beyond me for the moment.

I use Screamline Studios Liquid Latex for my corpsed Buckies and i think its fantastic.

www.screamlinestudios.com

have you tried ebay search for mold making latex got mine from there last year £25.00 for 5 litres had great fun making props with it