The next step after you have demolded your master molds.
Is to mix the prosthetic transfer material or PTM.
What you need to mix your prosthetic transfer material is Pros Aide in a cream form.
You can buy premade cream or buy liquid Pros Aide and mix it with Cab-O-Sil.
It's the exact same thing. I would say. because Pros Aide cream is more expensive at the store.
Just, mix your own.
If you feel confident enough, it's worth mixing your own. You also get to control the consistency if you mix your own.
That's true. But you also use flocking which is just tiny little fibers.
It's nylon fiber and it comes in different colors like skin tone colored.
Then you have fun colors and you have a base skin tone and to make it more realistic you add a little bit
of red or blue. Because your viens are blue. Maybe even a little bit of yellow, depending on...if your me and have
yellow or golden skin. It's yellow, I look jaundiced. (hah) Let's move on.
There is also brown. Or exciting. Skin Color.
But you will mix a little bit of that into the Pros Aide to pre tint it.
So it is easier to paint when you apply it to your own face.
basically the less work you have to do when you get to your painting time the
better because it just makes the makeup application faster
It's all about making it faster. Especially for LARP.
A lot of people use acrylic paint I would not
advise that. Don't ever use acrylic paint for makeup that's going on your face.
(please) I will come and find you. (please)
so what we're using is Mehron's liquid makeup to tint ours instead.
But, if you don't want to do that. if you want to do any of that. We the Larp House sell pre-made
prosthetic transfer material on our Etsy store. So you just buy that.
But we're going to show you how to mix it anyway.
she's gonna make it with the premade Pros Aide cream
and I'm going to mix mine by mixing Cab-o-Sil my dearest love.
I'm also going to be using the flocking and she's going to be using the liquid mahron paints
I'm going to use a little bit of flocking to simulate blood vessels and things like that but
most of the colors gonna come from the pain and that we see the difference in
techniques as both ways are completely fine and valid it just depends on your
personal preference. Let's do it!
One thing I want to say about Cab-o-sil, is that it's really bad for you if you breathe it in so please wear a mask.
now I'm opening up the Cab-o-sil and if you are mixing
larger amounts of Cab-o-sil then this you want to wear a mask.
but for tiny amount it's not so bad. I am mixing it with liquid Pros Aide to get a consistency that
matches peanut butter. You want it to be like peanut butter.
(Madison) The Pros Aide cream already comes thickened. So all I'm doing in the back there is adding different kinds of flocking
which are shredded nylon fibers different colors so I'm putting in a
reds and blues to simulate blood vessels in vans to give it a more
human-like appearance. (Cheyenne) I am now adding the mahron liquid makeup for color and
the flocking for blood vessel texture but if you have a darker skin tone you're gonna
want to put a lot more liquid makeup in it because the Cab-o-sil makes it
opaque and white. So here we are just smearing it in you just wanna kind of
spread it around as if you were spreading it on a sandwich. kind of work it a little
bit to get rid of the air bubbles.
This is one part of a two part transfer paper. I believe you call it a silicon
treated acetate. You want to cut a piece roughly the size of your mold. definitely bigger than your transfer.
(Madison) It has to be bigger then your transfer or it's not going to work.
what you do you get a sharpie and you draw the paper
with a sharpie on both sides. On one side the ink of the Sharpie will bead up that
means there is a release
agent on that side and that is the side that you want touching your mold material
transfer material so what I'm gonna do here is lay it down and get a tongue depressor out.
and use that edge and try to get out any air bubbles but use the
edge of the tongue depressor to create the perfect blending edge of the prosthetic and you
can kind of see exactly where the sculpture ends and that's great. That's where you're you're runoff comes
in handy
There is an airbubble there
And you can peel it up.
And she is just doing the same thing with her piece
So! once you have got
your Pros Aide material in your mold. and it's all nice and smooth and ready to go.
What you want to do is pop it in the freezer.
This polymerizes the Pros Aide
and turns it pretty rubbery. it's best to do this several times freeze it and
thaw it. if you can. We're gonna go put these in the freezer and forget all about them for awhile.
And eat some food.