Puppet Casting: Silicon body parts

To cast the silicon body parts, I had to make sure that I first mixed each colour correctly. I had to use oil paints and then added a small amount of each colour into a pot of silicon. 

The first casts for the Rumpelstiltskin puppet didn't work very well, they were too gooey and thin and didn't set properly, so I'll need to re-do these. I think this must be because I didn't mix it properly. 

Luckily the hands for the Troll king and the Millers hands and feet and the Millers Daughter's body parts all came out perfectly first time which I am very relieved about, as if they hadn't I'd have had to buy more silicon which would have set me back another week. 

Once I'd taken the hands and feet out of the mould,I had to carefully cut off the extra silicon and trim it down as close to the shape of the arm as possible.

The second attempt at Rumpelstiltskin's hands and feet worked much better, and all the silicon cured correctly, however the silicon had run out of the mould some how in the arms, meaning that the hands had worked perfectly, but the arms were really thin and wirey. This meant that I would need to edit the costume to cover the arms because I did not have time to order more silicon and recast them.