Thread: Bucky Casting?

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Hi all!

I just ordered my first Bucky today, and now the eager anticipation comes while we wait for him to arrive.

One of the things that I'd like to do with my Buck is to use him as a master, then create some sort of 2-part mold with him. This will allow me to have more skellies than I could ever afford in my haunt. (But not TOO many, I can't be tacky! LOL)

What I plan to do is cast the skull, radius and ulna (forearm), hands, tibia and fibula (lower leg) and feet. This will give me molds to build most of my static props with, since the majority of the body will be clothed. From there, as my moldmaking skills improve, I'd like to go back to the Bucky master to cast any parts that may be needed "on demand".

Have any of you Bucky owners attempted casting him? I'm sure the RTV route would probably be the simplest, but with 206 bones in the body, it's also going to be the most expensive in the long run. Anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks!

It's way cheaper to buy more bucky's than molding with a RTV. Gallon kits are around $150.00 around these parts. Let me know if you find a good solution. A good skull mold for me is about $200.00. Latex i.e. mold builder is more affordable but you will need mother molds for each part.

Originally Posted by BallstonManor

Hi all!

I just ordered my first Bucky today, and now the eager anticipation comes while we wait for him to arrive.

One of the things that I'd like to do with my Buck is to use him as a master, then create some sort of 2-part mold with him. This will allow me to have more skellies than I could ever afford in my haunt. (But not TOO many, I can't be tacky! LOL)

What I plan to do is cast the skull, radius and ulna (forearm), hands, tibia and fibula (lower leg) and feet. This will give me molds to build most of my static props with, since the majority of the body will be clothed. From there, as my moldmaking skills improve, I'd like to go back to the Bucky master to cast any parts that may be needed "on demand".

Have any of you Bucky owners attempted casting him? I'm sure the RTV route would probably be the simplest, but with 206 bones in the body, it's also going to be the most expensive in the long run. Anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks!

What do you plan on making the finished pieces out of. That should be the determining factor on what material your mold is made out of. Will they be latex backed with flex foam, straight ridgid foam, plaster?

I agree with all of the above. Expensive and time consuming But RTV mold will last a long time if taking care of. So what your saying is you want the hands and arms and legs and feet to be accurate and want the torso to just be a solid form b/c its gonna be clothed? RTV might go pretty far for the hands and feet and smaller bones but it would be pricey for the torso. If your lucky and all goes well with the mold making then it might be worth it in the long run but if things go wrong can be a pricey mistake. Just start off with something small and see how that goes.

Good luck

One more thing if you did just want the torso to be a one piece solid form i would make that mold out of fiberglass. Dont have to pay shipping charges can get at Lowes. Shipping charges are terrible i just had to pay 9 bucks shipping for 1/4 pound package

Oh yeah, I wouldn't do the entire torso solid cast - if I were going to do anything like that, I'd just lifecast my own torso. At the very most I want to have the ribcage available to cast the bones individually as I think of a prop that would expose them.

As for casting materials, I'm undecided at this point. I could do plaster easily enough, and I don't mind making mother molds, but since I haven't started yet, I've just been reading as much as I can about moldmaking in general. I've not yet found anyone that's cast from a Bucky.

I did find someone reproducing skulls with great success using Great Stuff, but they didn't use Bucky skull as the master. I considered experimenting with this, just to see how well it works. Like has been said, it's going to be dark, it doesn't have to be overly accurate!