Make molds with Blue Stuff!

How To: Blue Stuff!
This is your chance to learn how to make awesome molds using Blue Stuff!
And don't forget it's cheaper version Ouymaru!

Blue stuff is another awesome tool to add to your hobby-toolbox!

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Timecodes
0:00- Intro
0:12 -What I s Blue Stuff?
0:59 - Preperations
1:37 - One-Sided Mold
3:06 - Making The Cast
4:15 - Blue Stuff into Blue Stuff
4:38 - Hot Glue Cast
5:12 - Thanks For Watching!
5:33 - Double Press Mold
6:40 - Another Cast
7:59 - The Lego Form Method
9:56 - Last Thoughts
10:16 - Blooper

Until next time!
Pew pew!

[JakeStaines]

One other cool thing you can do with this technique is 'float' reinforcing bars on the inside of your parts. For something like that thunder hammer, the haft will be really bendy with green stuff or really brittle with milliput. So just before pressing the two halves of the filled mould together, lay in a length of paperclip or brass rod right down the centre of the haft, it'll come out much more strong and stiff.

For bonus points, sculpt some tentacles or cables, cast them in a two-part mould in green stuff with a thin florist's wire reinforcement, and when the putty cures they're basically poseable.

[adriannaranjo]

By far the *best* most in depth video about Blue Stuff. Most don't even show the failures or mention how making a two part mold sorta melts them together, your simple but effective methods really help demonstrate what to do and how to avoid messes

[Chaosmech]

You can also use Sprue Goo (leftover model sprues, cut up into small pieces and melted down with acetone) in these molds, but it's best used for very thin pieces. Otherwise, the acetone collects in one place and gives you big bubble cavities in two-part molds.

I never thought of using Lego with Oyumaru to make the molds stay together, that's really smart!

I found that one of the best ways to ensure the two parts of the mold could come apart later was to put the first half in the fridge for a while, then heat up the putty for the second half, slap it on, and throw the whole thing in the fridge again. The cold half of the mold resists melting long enough to get it back into the fridge where everything can cool down and the edges don't melt together nearly as much. Then, when it's time to peel them apart, I'd put them in my pocket to get them slightly warm and pull them apart that way. Easy peasy.

[tylertanner]

"You can even see my unevenly drilled barrel holes" felt

[timothytimh]

Very nice! Thank you. I am gathering the medicine for my toy production quest and you are one of the wizards whose power I am digesting.

[YanniCooper]

Don't heat the blue stuff in a container you're going to eat or drink from ever again, remnants of your epoxy/resin will remain on the blue stuff and can be pretty toxic.

[CherudexGaming]

i use milliput, and the best application is for bulky bodies (like Cities of Sigmar dwarfs), because you don't risk to lose details or to break them...
they give you 20 pair of arms, 20 heads, and 10 bodies: it's my duty to make 20 models

[ChocolatesMD]

This is such a fantastic video and I am so glad it came across my feed. Simple, effective, and easy to follow. I'm going to give it a try myself, thank you for sharing your experience with this method!

[XmortoxX]

The more Learn about this hobby, the more I love it!
While I'm focusing on improving my paint skills, I'm definitively trying this at some time

[trevorhitchen]

Before pressing part into the Blue Stuff, you should warm it up slightly . Pressing it in cold will cool the blue stuff a bit, some details will be not as sharp.
I mean your molds are great, just another tip worth trying

[CrickesYouTube]

Things I learned today, blue stuff is magic!

[Ball-destroyers]

I don’t need to dance to make the best of my 3 minute I use that time to watch videos like yours😁😁😁

[cameroncorrosive]

this is awesome, custom weapons and repairing broken parts will be easier than ever. awesome video!

[UltramanStrikerV]

Just wanted to say thank you I just got into 40K on budget. Can some of my minis were missing limbs this saved me so much money!!!

[TylrVncnt]

Suuuper impressed! Love that Lego press, it’s genius!!

[GrapeHate]

So many Swedish Youtubers these days. Love it.

[jimmyv]

I had the same issues with 2 faces cloning but never thought about using lego, you're a genius man ! "Mom where are my olds legos ??"

[retributionangel]

You need to use releas Wax when doing double sided molds. Or at least use Kitch Oil like Sunflower Oil.

If you do big parts like that TH-Hammer use a peace of Wire and lay it in the middel between 2 smal ammounts of Greenstuff when pressing it into the mold. So you end up with a more resistant Handelpart that doesnt flex or snap as easy.

[twincast]

I had never thought of a Lego press before. It's ingenious! I usually cast with a 1::1 mix of green stuff and brown stuff in my blue stuff molds. And I've almost never had a use for sprue goo, but now I want to use an Oyumaru cast to make a Milliput mold and try to fill that with sprue goo.

It's almost never an issue with recent character models anymore, but I hate mortals going into battle sans helmets, and for the longest time GW sold almost only helmetless character kits, so that was my top priority first use case for casting my own bits, followed by a bunch of pistols for the 2017 edition of Kill Team, and then additional bodies to not let all the extra weapons, heads, and often legs go to waste. And I'm excited for Warhammer: The Old World, very much including all the beautiful returning metal models, but I hate working with metal, and some are infamously top-heavy, to boot, so I'll most likely copy 'em all.

[lart]

My man you deserve more views on this video. This is a great and very comprehensive guide on how to use bluestuff. It got me pumped up to replicate some bits and pieces I need more of :)