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The Mold Star silicone is very similar to Silopren...and is too dense and resistant to stretching and inflation. When air is pumped into the mold...the seams failed...and air escaped.
The Ecoflex silicone on the other hand...ended up working VERY well (once we created a proper cast).
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This tutorial [^5] was created using..
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Initially frustrated with my silicone casts with Silopren...I gave Heat Transfer Vinyl (HTV) Inflatables a try. It proved to be so much fun.
_Fabrication files_ are a necessary element for evaluation. You can add the _fabrication files_ at the bottom of the page and simply link them as a footnote. This was your work stays organised and files will be all together at the bottom of the page. Footnotes are created using [ ^ 1 ] (without spaces, and referenced as you see at the last chapter of this page) You can reference the fabrication files to multiple places on your page as you see for footnote nr. 2 also present in the Gallery.
The procedure was simple...
1. Draw up a shape on a sheet of ordinary A4 paper that has been folded in half...ensuring to draw a channel to insert the inflation pump and one or multiple inflation chambers connected by narrow inflation pathways.
## Results
2. Cut out the shape out of the folded paper...resulting in 2 identical cutouts that should be stacked one on top of the other.
3. Cut 2 pieces of HTV.
4. Sandwich the stacked paper shapes between the 2 pieces of HTV...making sure that the shiny side of the HTV is not facing the paper shapes.
5. Put another sheet of A4 paper over the HTV/Paper Shape sandwich...and use a hot clothes iron to melt the glue side of the HTV together...trapping the paper shapes inside.
6. Trim the HTV so that it takes on the shape of the paper shapes inside...but leave a border of around 5mm. Make sure that the top and bottom HTV layers at this 5mm are properly adhered to one another (no air gaps)...or run the iron over it one more time.
## Fabrication files
6. Insert the pump into the insertion channel of the inflatable and pump air in between the 2 pieces of paper trapped inside.
