What are bodykit molds made out of?

[aptiva23]

That is the question my friend.:ermm:

[spiral]

my brother in law made his own molds for a lambo-fiero kit and he made them out of fiberglass. he just sprayed over the shape then you have the reverse forms to spray into.

[Reminiz]

silverkit made his homemade kit out of styrofome, then put fiberglass over top of it I believe. He used the really thick industrial stuff.

[majikTib]

I'm not sure if that's what he's asking.

Let's say I took my Veilside Kit off and wanted to make a mold of it to reproduce others, how would I go about this? What would I use to make a mold of it?

[spiral]

plaster or resin. you would need to get get some kind of release agent then the original pops out when dry.

[aptiva23]

what I'm asking is that if I wanted to make a front lip for my car what would be the best way to make a mold for it. Is designing it from stirofoam the only way to go about it? Because I sorta tried doing that and its freeking hard.

[Arctic Chill]

...no one said it was going to be easy. You definitely need to practice doing it several times. I mean...you can't possibly expect to get it right the first time around, do you?

[aptiva23]

Well no. I guess I will have to take my time to make my art work pretty:chineseDude looks like he could be and artist). Make the first one out of stirofoam and then use that as the mold I guess.:|

[CCSPMP]

you prolly dont want to use styrofoam.
i am not sure where you can get it but i know we had acces to it last year for making models and what not at school but you need to get like an industrial 10 or 20 lbs foam. 10-20lbs refers to the density. then you can make a frame and por plaster or whatever you are going to use and work from there.

just a little note though the foam is expensive. if you need more info on the foam i can try to find out for you just let me know

[aptiva23]

Thanks, I'll look into and see what I can find.