Fixing and repairing

Carolyn Doughty

This video shows you some of the flaws you may get in your poured baby, and how to repair them to make them invisible.

Tutorial includes:

• Pour spout
• Seams
• Blemishes and small tears
• Filling air bubbles
• Skin tags
• Re-building ear from thickened silicone
• Neatening webs in fingers and toes
• Transplanting a hand
• Transplanting an ear
• Opening mouth

Materials used in tutorial:

• Platsil Gel 00
• SAM Odorless Silicone Solvent
• Brushes, applicators, beakers, mixing tubs
• Flesh pigment - if possible the same pigment the baby was poured in (am using 'Rosy Flesh' from Bentleys Advanced Materials
• Thi-Vex

Information sheets / technical data / safety data

Platsil Gel 00

technical data sheet

Available from: 
www.mouldlife.net

Cost: around £25 for 1kg

SAM Odorless Silicone Solvent

technical data sheet

Available from this site

Cost: around £9 for small bottle

Thi-Vex

technical data sheet

safety data sheet

Available from:
Bentleys Advanced Materials

Cost: around £4 for one-ounce dropper bottle