what's up Internet welcome to fiction forge on today's episode we're gonna
take a closer look at silicone and show you a few ways of using it in your
project you'll be taking a look at what it is exactly and a few cool things you
can do with it and we'll try and show you a few cool tricks you maybe didn't
know what do you think graybles guy let's go in for a closer look you'll be
surprised to know that the rubbery substance known as silicone is made from
the same basic stuff as glass and computer chips silicon makes up
approximately a quarter of the Earth's crust and it is often harvested from
quartz from there it is processed into a metallic form through some pretty fancy
scientific chemical and physical processes they arrange the silicone into
long chains that form the basis of most of it's rubbery forms here are a few
helpful things to know when getting started choosing your silicone first of
all there are two different cure types acetoxy and neutral s acetoxy is the
most common type it smells heavily of vinegar when it's
curing it cures relatively quickly and it generally doesn't stick well to most
plastics glass or aluminum neutral releases alcohol as occurs this type
tends to be more expensive it cures slower and the time tends to vary more
it generally sticks well to most plastics glass aluminium and stone here
are a few of the different kinds that you could find commonly available
general purpose or builders silicone aquarium or marine silica two-part
silicone food-safe silicone sanitary silicone high temperature silicone
glazing silicone
modulus refers to how soft and flexible the silicone is lowest soft and flexible
high is more solid and durable here's a few pros and cons here are the pros it's
UV resistant temperature resistant and has low chemical reactivity and toxicity
it also forms watertight seals and only sticks well to a few things which can be
good or bad depending on what you're trying to do with it
electrically it can be insulative or conductive and it offers long lasting
flexibility and lifespan and here are the cons it can have a pungent odor the
cure times vary it can be very messy to handle and a nightmare to get out of
your clothes apart from its more common uses like in construction and making
mermaids tails ooowee can it make a mermaid's tail it's also a top choice
for making reusable flexible molds mostly for casting resin and other
liquid plastics but where we think it really shines creatively is in creating
hyper-realistic pieces that blur the line between fantasy and reality
I mean cinema makeup has been fooling you for decades with it check out these
life-size sculptures made by Thomas Kuebler they're gloriously creepy and
realistic I think we can all agree that these characters would make for the best
Tim Burton movie ever here are a few works created by boularis on deviantART
he also really knows his way around some silicone but holy hell can silicone make
some of the most badass masks you ever did see check out a few of these face melters from immortal masks the attention to detail with all this work
is utterly staggering and I'm sure that is in no small part
thanks to silicon when it comes to coloring silicon there's two ways that
work pretty well that we know first of all you got your food coloring and you
got your acrylic paint you can pull off some pretty interesting effects with
both of these but the main difference between the two is the food coloring
produces more translucent colors while as the acrylic produces more pastel or
opaque colors so we like to use a sturdy plastic bag when mixing up small batches
of silicon we are using both corners of the bag to mix up the two different
batches so we don't have to waste another bag the glow-in-the-dark acrylic
on this side and the food coloring on the other then give them both the good
mix in the bag silicone when wet can be a sticky nightmare you get a little bit in
your hair or on your clothes and it can really mess your day up you can try
using rubber gloves but they don't really help
they just keep your hands clean but here are a few tips that really do help
putting the silicone into water with ordinary dish soap stops it from being
able to stick to anything it makes it a breeze to handle on the other hand you
got corn starch you knead the silicone into it until it
stops sticking to stuff you just gradually add more and more until it
becomes manageable we can now mix up some soapy water but don't skimp on the
soap if you want this to work right cutting the corner of the bag allows you
to pipe the silicone straight into the soapy water see how it becomes like a
ball of brightly colored clay in your hands don't mess around with it for too
long though or it'll cure before you can do anything with it and now we add
a bit of corn starch so we can take the acrylic one and make it into protoputty
it's like making bread dough you just keep kneading it in until it's
not sticky
but we found even with the protoputty it was easier to handle after a generous
soaping boom there we have it colored moldable silicone and both will imprint
and take shape well working with silicone leads to lots of these weird
scrap rubber things we found these ones in the mixing bag from earlier we like
to keep these strange artifacts so we can chop them up into wet silicone to
either fill space or create interesting effects and textures so we've used
silicone in a bunch of projects over the years and we find it incredibly
versatile and it's especially adept at creating realistic damp organic textures
it can either carry the entire project like in the venoms case here
for it can support and accentuate the other materials like in the hydrolisks
case with his gums or in the Maokias case where we created some realistic
fake moss and some mushroom shelves that are illuminated right so for the fake
moss we crush up a bit of this florist foam then we use the same bag from
earlier to mix it up with the silicone and then smear it on a friend's hard
drive because hard drives the silicone proof right and the foam gives it an
interesting texture that glistens to make it more Moss like with an unsoaped
finger you can pat the silicone to make it spiky the hole is form a raindrop
that completely messed up the silicones ability to stick now let's slap some
silicone on this intricately carved wooden box to try and get an imprint the
soapy water makes applying the silicone as easy as buttering toast so this was a
learning moment don't use glass as a flat surface for
silicone made for fish tanks it sticks der so hence the knife to try and get it
off you've got to take your time prying the silicone impression up or it could
rip or bring bits of the box up with it this carving is too cool for just you
box now we can reproduce this carving out of a variety of materials whenever
we want with a bit of wire and some colored silicone you can whip up some
cool toys in no time I made this spider by creating a wire
armature and then just forcing some colored silicone around it and if you
weren't sold on the intricacy of that box let's see if it can steal shapes
from Mother Nature herself and while we're busy stealing shapes we figure cover
this aloe too and maybe that hard drive again with some glow-in-the-dark
silicone and maybe this other leaf as well and then 15 minutes later you can
peel away your prints this one was a failure because the silicone had already
started to cure when we molded it it didn't turn out right like the others anybody
need a stylish grip for something this one even glows in the dark we asked
ourselves where would a few silicone leaves really shine but we had no
success so we just stuck them on some lights and hoped for the best not bad at
all if you ask me
only another 95 to cover the rest of the lights yay
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watching we hope this gave you a bit of inspiration for some cool silicon
creations of your own join us next time when we'll be showing you how to be a
Halloween boss on a budget will be using silicone and a cheap store-bought mask
to forge a new mask so badass it'll make children cry till then we
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