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How to Make a Carvable Foam Pumpkin

In this video, I show you how to make your own carvable foam Pumpkin. There’s a few ways to make foam pumpkins, this is just one. In this video, I give a step-by-step guide on how I make a silicone mould to cast a realistic-looking rigid Polyurethane foam pumpkin. This method eliminates the join line which you find on many foam pumpkins, however, it requires the pumpkin to have a hole at the bottom, something I’m ok with, as when on display you can’t see the hole, and it gives me a space t place a LED light inside… I will probably make another video at some point showing other ways to make a foam pumpkin without the hole. This method also stops the issue of paint flaking off, by painting the mould (rather than the finished pumpkin) you are making the foam stick to the paint, rather than the other way around, doing this leads to a much better paint job and eliminates paint flaking. When the pandemic hit, like many people I found I had a lot of time on my hands, in the UK where im based foam Pumpkins simply weren’t available to buy, so I set about trying to figure out how to make my own, after dozens of attempts at making various moulds I finally achieved something I was happy with. Although I have sold a few of these uncarved foam Pumpkins in the past, I have very little interest in selling foam pumpkins, I’m making these to carve myself, I am fully focused on continuing to improve this process and making the best Foam pumpkins possible, and happy to share what I’ve learned so far, and will continue to share new materials and methods I discover to improve this process. What you will need: -A well-ventilated area -PPE: respirator, eye protection, gloves Silicone Smooth-on, Mould Max 15T OR o Smooth-on, Dragon Skin 10 Slow OR An equivalent Silicone with similar technical properties -Rigid Polyurethane Foam o My favorite brand is the Smooth-on Foam-it range. o I use the foam-it 5 or 8, but you can use any rigid foam · Laminating resin o Any laminating resin will work, but you need one with a long “pot life” this is the amount of time you have to work with the material once mixed – I try and use one with a 20 to 40 min pot life. · Chopped strand fiberglass matting o Any matting will work – I use ones around 300gsm · Wax mould release · Newplast putty · Ribbon · Tape · Disposable paint brushes & mixing pots, above 1000ml (at least 10 of each) · Baby powder/ talc · Acrylic spray paint · Drill & paint mixer #FoamPumpkin #howto #pumpkin #haloweenProps #props #funkin