Plastic Fantastic!

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Hello fellow humans,

I’m in bit of a pickle – I’ve been trying to get information online on how to work with plastic, but I’m stuck. What I’m aiming to do are a few small plastic statues, from first making the statues in plaster, covering them in some sort of plaster-rubber to form the mold, then pouring plastic into the mold to get a plastic version of the original plaster statue.

I hope that makes sense. ;D

Of course, I have no idea what the technical terms for plastic castings are, or what sort of materials I should use – but this is for my (art) college portfolio, and I will be simply lost without it.

The kind of plastic I’m looking to work with is the typical hard regular plastic (poly urethane liquid plastic?), preferably one I can either paint or add color too during the melting process.

So where can I find these mystery products, either on-line or in the Los Angeles area – and what are the steps I need to follow in order to have a lovely end product?

All your comments are much appreciated!