{"id":4260,"date":"2009-08-24T07:15:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T11:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2009-08-19T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:27:05","slug":"moldingcasting-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4260","title":{"rendered":"Molding\/Casting Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/moldgarg-150x139.jpg\" alt=\"Gargoyle\" title=\"Gargoyle\" width=\"150\" height=\"139\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The inimitable Dave Lowe has put up a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/davelowe.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/halloween-09-molding-and-casting-cheap.html\">tutorial<\/a> on using plasticine and patching compound to quickly and easily cast small items.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a fantastic way to inexpensively create decorative items.  Make a mold of something like a skull or a bat, turn out loads of copies, and use them to accent things like mirrors or candlesticks.  (You could also experiment with running a bunch of them along the wall as a decorative frieze.)  The technique would also be handy for duplicating orphaned items, so if you&#8217;ve got a single gargoyle that you found at a flea market now you can give it a twin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inimitable Dave Lowe has put up a wonderful tutorial on using plasticine and patching compound to quickly and easily cast small items. This would be a fantastic way to inexpensively create decorative items. Make a mold of something like a skull or a bat, turn out loads of copies, and use them to accent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4265,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}