Hands & Heads Instructions

MAKE CUSTOM HANDS, HEAD OR FEET FOR MANNEQUINS OR OTHER USES

Now you can make hands, feet, model heads, mannequin parts or baby hand & foot prints for fun or sale. Use your own hands, feet or other body parts as well as modeling other hands and feet..

MOLD-MAKING PROCEDURE

• Materials needed for hands or head molding:
  
• Flat working surface with plastic sheet to cover work surface
• 2 ft. of 4 ply 9" cheese cloth (Standard width)
  
• 6 oz molding silicone with catalyst
  
• 1 quart or ½ gallon Head & Hands Mannequin Kit of self-skinning polyurethane foam
  
• 4 small paper cups
  
• Tongue depressors or small paint mixing sticks
  
• 2 one inch paint brushes with brushes cut to one inch in length
  
• 1 pair latex gloves
  
• Safety glasses
  
• Scotch tape
  

MAKING HAND & FEET FOR MANNEQUIN PARTS/ OTHER USES/ PROCEDURE

MAKING THE MOLD

1) Read the directions carefully before beginning either of these procedures

2) Clean and dry hand or model hand thoroughly before use

3) Hang or hold hand vertically over plastic protected table. Hand model may be stood vertically on wrist with fingers upward if applicable.

4) Thoroughly mix app. one ounce of liquid silicone mold compound with 10% catalyst for two to three minutes.

5) Brush silicone onto the hand from the top of the fingers downward and brush excess back upwards to the fingertips as excess amounts slough downward. This may be continued with an objective of maintaining an even coating on all surfaces, until silicone hardens too much to continue to move.

6) Continue steps 4 & 5 until all mixed mold compound has been applied.

7) Clean the brush bristles between applications by pulling them through a pinched cleaning rag.

8) Allow the mold compound to cure until it is solid enough that it will not shift or distort when touched with a brush

9) Repeat steps 3 through 8 until three or more good coats have been applied

10) Allow a 24 hour cure time before casting a hand from the new silicone mold

MAKING THE NEW DUPLICATED HAND

MANNEQUIN HAND CASTING PROCEDURE

11) Place the new silicone hand mold inside a container and position it vertically with the mold opening up. Surround the mold with rags or crumpled paper to hold it steady.

12) Throughly mix 50 grams of Head and Hand Mannequin Kit - A Side with 100 gram of B Side for 10 seconds

13) Immediately pour the combined mixture into the hand mold opening, making sure that it flows into all of the thumb and finger areas.

14) Rotate the mold in such a manner that the mixture contacts all inside surfaces as possible. Continue this rotation process as the mixture solidifies (app. 2 minutes)

15) Place the mannequin hand mold in a support container on a flat surface and position the mold opening up as level as possible,

16) Allow 20 minutes for the poured hand to harden

17) Repeat steps 1-3 above

18) Allow 3 hours before removing the hand casting from the mold

REMOVING THE COMPLETED NEW HAND

19) Remove the silicone mold from the model below the thumb then slicing it open upward along the side of the thumb to the end of the thumb.

20) Apply talcum powder to the silicone mold for easier removal, allowing the silicone to easily slip off against itself from the model hand.

21) Carefully pull the silicone mold off the model, pulling upward from the base to the finger tips

up and over itself in an inside-out manner until the silicone hand mold has been removed from the new hand.

22) Align the cut the silicone mold slit to fit together, then apply a “hot batch” (20% catalyst) of silicone and catalyst mixture carefully over the slit to hold both sides together. Apply a second coat of “hot silicone mix” over the repaired seam when the first application is firm.

23) Allow the 24 hours for the silicone seam to completely cure

24) The silicone mold is now ready to be used to cast a mannequin another hand...

25) You can use this same molding process on your hand or possibly the beautiful hand of someone you know

MANNEQUIN HEAD MOLD MAKING PROCEDURE

MAKING THE MOLD

1) Clean and dry mannequin or other head model to be duplicated.

2) Place the head vertically onto an easily handled workboard on the plastic covered table.

3) Thoroughly mix app. one ounce of liquid silicone mold compound with 10% silicone mold catalyst for two minutes or three minutes.

4) Apply mixed mold compound to the top of the head using a inch brush starting at the top of the head and working downwards.

5) Brush the liquid mold compound back upwards to the top of the head with the objective of an even coating, until the silicone hardens too much to continue to move.

6) Continue steps 4 & 5 until all mixed mold compound has been applied.

7) Clean the brush bristles between applications by pulling them through a pinched cleaning rag

8) Allow the mold compound to cure until it is solid enough that it will not shift or distort when touched by a brush.

9) Repeat steps 3 thru 8 until four or more coats have been applied.

10) Allow 24 hours cure time before advancing to the next step

11) Begin constructing a pressure/ shape containment shell for the silicone covered head by wrapping the head on it’s side using rolled towels protected with a sheet of plastic covering the towels.

12 Support the silicone covered head with a sheet of plastic covering the towels.

13. Lay a 4 ply piece of cheesecloth over the head allowing the lower edges of the cloth to hang straight down.

14) Apply one coat of Head and Hands Mannequin Kit (1 Part A Side to 2 parts B Side) mixed for one minute) brushed on and saturating the cheesecloth and allow 15-20 minutes to cure until it is tack free, yet still pliable.

15) When tack free, draw a line on the cheese cloth covering beginning with the Adam’s Apple up over the nose, forehead and down the center of the back of the head and neck. This will provide two sections, left and right hemispheres of the head.

16) Remove the covered cheesecloth covering if stiff enough to hold it’s shape, but still pliable. Cut along the marker line creating half a shell which covers one hemisphere of the head

17) Repeat steps 11 through 16 to form a shape/containment shell for the opposite hemisphere of the head.

18) After shape/containment shells are made for both sides of the silicone head mold, fit them around the head and cut away parts where the two shells overlap each other.

19) Re-fit the shells around the silicone head mold. Wrap Saran Wrap type material around the shells against the head and allow at least 8 hours for completed shape containment shell to cure to maximum hardness.

MAKE THE NEW DUPLICATED HEAD

MANNEQUIN HEAD CASTING PROCEDURE

20) Carefully fit the two support hemisphere shells around the mannequin head mold

21) Wrap a Saran Wrap type plastic snug around the support shells holding the mannequin head mold in open filling position while provide pressure containment when the casting material is poured into the mold. Wrap 5-6 layers of the plastic material tightly in such a manner that the head mold is not distorted in any way.

22) Place the head mold/support shell assembly in an inverted position inside an open box containing crumple papers or rags for support and vertical positioning and pouring

23) Thoroughly mix 160 grams of Head And Hands Mannequin Kit A side with 320 grams of B side for 10 seconds.

24) Carefully and quickly pour the mixture into the molded head opening and rotate the head mold gently so as to allow product to cover the face and ear mold surfaces first and then as much of the other surfaces as possible before the mixture thickens, hardens and will not flow.

25) Repeat Step 23

26) Quickly pour second mixture into the head mold opening then rotate the head to allow the product to flow over all uncovered surfaces up to and including the neck line of the mold opening. This must be accomplished within 30 seconds.

27) Set the mold onto a flat surface after all surfaces have been covered, opening side down, allowing some product to flow down and around the base of the head opening.

28) Allow at least 3 hours for the head casting to cure before de-molding

REMOVE THE COMPLETED NEW HEAD

29) Remove the wrapping from the shells in preparation of removal of the silicone mold from the model head.

30) Remove the silicone mold from the head by first cutting a vertical slit in the mold beginning at the base of the back of the head and slicing upward to the widest point to the back of the head.

IMPORTANT: The slit must be cut about 3/4" to the right or left of center. Do not cut exactly down the center following the line where the two shells meet.

31) Apply talcum powder to the silicone mold for easier removal, allowing the silicone to easily slip off against itself from the model head.

32) Carefully pull the silicone mold off the model by pulling upward from the base and then over itself in an inside-outside manner until the new product head as been removed from the silicone molded head.

33) Place the silicone mold into the containment shell which allows access to the slit which was cut up the back of the head mold.

34) Align the cut silicone mold slit to fit together then apply a “hot batch” 20% catalyst of silicone and catalyst mixture over the slit to hold them together. Apply a second coat of “hot silicone” over the repaired seam when the first application is firm

35) Allow 24 hours for the repaired silicone seam to completely cure

36) The silicone mold and supporting shell is now ready to be used to cast another mannequin or other head.