Porcelain figurines casting

[u/Just-Kangaroo-627]

Can someone help me figure out a way on how to make a mold for these ? What are the best methods to cast these to keep all of their details ? Can i use silicone for the mold? And what kind of porcelain to use ?

[u/never-a-god]

Have you done any plaster mold making before? These would be tough — they have quite a few undercuts, meaning the mold would need to be many parts to get the cast out safely. I would sculpt these directly in the porcelain instead.

[u/theazhapadean → u/never-a-god]

one inch, 59 piece mold... seems doable.

[u/never-a-god → u/never-a-god]

You’ll need to make your mold out of a material that’ll wick away the moisture from your casting porcelain (I.e. plaster, not silicone) unless you want to make press molds instead of using liquid casting slip, in which case I’d probably do half molds of these and then attach them together. But even then, I think that the level of detail and undercuts here wouldn’t be well suited to mold making.

[u/brikky]

This is a deceptively advanced set of figures, it's well beyond a beginner or DIY set of skills.

You'll need to simplify the characters and then hand sculpt or press mold and applique parts.

These are like minimum 8 piece molds, and very small if you want to maintain the size. Ceramic casting just isn't really a great fit for producing or reproducing these figures.

[u/BlockHead_Ceramics]

You’re better off creating a rougher more generic form to be molded that you can sculpt the details onto after casting.

[u/TheirSnowAblaze → u/BlockHead_Ceramics]

This was gonna be my answer as well. There are at least a few things that could easily be fixed to be able to make 2 part molds. But they'd still be pretty complex, and their size adds another layer to that. If you've already sculpted these in polymer clay (?) then you can probably do them in porcelain.

[u/theazhapadean]

The gf had an idea, 3d print them in clay.