hmsresolute
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I have Iron-oxide cement coloring.. will that work with plaster? It is red iron-oxide.
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ProgMatinee
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Give it a try. Plaster is cheap. If you mess some up, who gives a ^^^^.
hmsresolute
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The iron-oxide works very well! I just don't have a good mold for bricks... any ideas other than pop-sicle sticks?
ProgMatinee
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You can always pour the plaster as one big piece and as it dries or after its dry, carve the detail.
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I've done bricks before:
I have a mold that was created and does 50 at a time. It's time consuming to do and with dry time I can usually only do a batch per day.
I've seen others use sheetrock to make bricks. Not as strong as plaster, but they'll work.
The $.20 per brick might seem expensive, but if you can only do X amount per day, plus everything involved, then to sell them you need to maximize what you can get. The real pain in the ass is spending the time to get the air bubbles out of the poured bricks.
John
I have a mold that was created and does 50 at a time. It's time consuming to do and with dry time I can usually only do a batch per day.
I've seen others use sheetrock to make bricks. Not as strong as plaster, but they'll work.
The $.20 per brick might seem expensive, but if you can only do X amount per day, plus everything involved, then to sell them you need to maximize what you can get. The real pain in the ass is spending the time to get the air bubbles out of the poured bricks.
John
hmsresolute
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I was thinking about making a ton of red plaster on a pan and stamping it with a brick mold... MY clay mold is a P.O.S.
hmsresolute
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I won't paint it, I have red iron-oxide brick coloring that I use.
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The liquid that they use for coloring bricks (Quik-crete brand?) works well for coloring. Mix it with the water then add that to the plaster powder. There's different colors, red, tan, black, slate blue and a few others. Mixing batches of different shades works well.
John
John
hmsresolute
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What Kozin mentioned is exactly what I use.
I've done bricks before:
I have a mold that was created and does 50 at a time. It's time consuming to do and with dry time I can usually only do a batch per day.
I've seen others use sheetrock to make bricks. Not as strong as plaster, but they'll work.
The $.20 per brick might seem expensive, but if you can only do X amount per day, plus everything involved, then to sell them you need to maximize what you can get. The real pain in the ass is spending the time to get the air bubbles out of the poured bricks.
John
These look great!
hmsresolute
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They do look very good!
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