ROTO-CASTING Resin | DIY Rotational Casting (Vinyl style figures?)

I'm demonstrating the roto-casting process using the Mach1Monkey machine, to make hollow resin casts of light bulbs.
(This may also be a way to make your own hollow vinyl style figures. Play with the resin amounts, to achieve thinner or thicker walls, which will very the flexibility of the object.)
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[@TheCrafsMan]

Y'all, this video didn't end up 100% how I wanted, due to working on two videos at once, and accidentally deleting the last few clips I shot for this video, while working on the NEXT video. BUT I think there's still enough here to get across how roto-casting works. Here are some examples of where you might use this: - Vinyl Style Figures - Helmets (Make a mold of your helmet sculpt, then use the mold to roto-cast the hollow plastic helmet) - Speaker Housings (Or other electronic housings) - Any large object where solid resin would make it too expensive or too heavy.

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You can also drill a small hole in the bottom of the bulb and wire in an LED. This way, you can have it light up while still in the mech-suit. Love your videos!

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I was thinking of building one myself, just cause it's COOL ! LOL ! Thanks for the reminder of those 'technic' by Lego ! I also would live to try to make the Rotating Solar System that was in the Dark Crystal.......(there is a term for it, can't remember !)

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Hello! :D Hope you enjoyed it!

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you could make all kinds of different color light bulbs like that and string them together with LED lights strands and make like camping/yard lights out of them would be pretty cool

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Crafsman giving out all the useful tips. Thanks for the tips and the video was still awesome as usual.

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Neat! I never saw how to do rotocasting before.

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This reminds me of the Snoopy's Mighty Model Maker I had in the early 80s. That would roto cast plaster versions of the Peanuts gang. It was a little messy but worked well.

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Oh jeez I remember that. I had a kit, not rotocasting, but you could cast these monsters and animals with some powdered mix stuff it came with. The cool thing was you could swap the heads, torsos and legs around because the molds were interlocking pieces so they snapped together. I almost totally forgot about it...I used to have a little desk next to my dad's workbench and he would mix up some plaster for me to make them after I ran out of the mix stuff. You could add food coloring or paint them afterwards. :)

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Love it! I made one exactly like this from clear resin and lit it with a small Paper-Balloon LED that I glued into the stem of the bulb. Was perfect scale for a 1:6th scale action figure.

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Aww, you're too kind. Thank you! I feel like this is one of the least well put-together videos of mine, though. :/

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