[Jewelry making - Article 00363] - [Orchid] Crisp mold-making material for PMC

[TheWildInside]

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    This is for all you folks who play with clay! I purchased three
    wonderful stamping dies on EBay (<snip>), one of which is a
    beautiful, but very finely detailed duck pond scene. The design - two
    ducks in flight over a marsh - is very shallow (don't know how else
    to describe it); so the 2-part RTV mold-making material I tried won't
    work... or perhaps I should say, I'd never used this stuff before,
    and I ended up with a coarse rubbery mess when I and the result were
    "done" (as recommended by the vendor from whom I purchased the stuff,
    the studio and my hands were both very warm before I attempted to
    combine the two parts). I'm thinking the best thing would be some
    kind of paint-on substance, but the result has to be both pliable
    enough to peel off the stamping die once set, yet stiff enough to
    allow the resulting mold to have PMC pressed into it. 

    I plan on using standard PMC if/when I ever find an appropriate mold
    making material, hoping that the shrinkage for this version will
    bring the item down to a more "charm" appropriate size from it's
    original 1.5" x 1.25" oval size. A version in PMC+ or PMC3 would
    make a perfect pin. 

    I have several possible ongoing uses for this and a larger single
    "duck in flight" - a local Waterfowl U.S.A. group, and two
    Adirondack-themed galleries. I'm anxious to get a few created and
    fired to show, but I'm stuck at this mold-making step! If anyone's
    got a favorite mold-making substance they'd like to share, I'm all
    eyes! 

Thanks!
Karan
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