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Chapter 5: Advanced Techniques
Precision Lifecasting & Other Approaches

Precision LifeCast™ applications are endless. If you have browsed the other areas of lifecast.net you're imagination is already working overtime with ideas.
Once you understand how to work with Earthium(f/x)™ it will seem as if nothing is beyond your abilities. All it takes is 3 or 4 exact ratios and techniques which you can apply to any given circumstance.

Non-Mammel Projects:
We have used it on living reptiles for example, by tricking them into dormancy long enough to make the mold. This is done by putting them in the refrigerator for a few moments. Being cold blooded, it doesn't take long for these creatures (lizards, frogs, snakes, etc) to lower their metabolism to the point where they can be LifeCast™ without suffocating.
AA life cast torsoSeveral taxidermists who buy from us swear by it for fishing trophy applications, every scale perfectly captured.
Plants are another subject for stunning sculpture. With thin, liquid ratios we have captured the metamorphosis of a single plant into its flowering stage over several days without harm. The one limit in botanical LifeCasts™ is the casting medium. Cements & plasters can only be used for certain succulents (desert type plants) which have thick bodies.
Erotic life cast tankConiferous, deciduous and other types must be cast in something liquid enough to get into all areas of these delicate molds. Professional waxes, such as those used for fine art metal castings are my favorite (see Chapter 4).
Another advantage of molds which are mostly water such as the ArtForm™ and Earthium™ is that they can be quickly heated up in a microwave oven to the same temperature as the molten wax.
Many problems are avoided by pouring hot wax into an equally hot mold so they both cool down together.
Fruits and vegetables make excellent subjects as this fellow demonstrates with the freshly bitten apple. With correct use even the complex artichoke has been captured.
Considering the high cost of good quality simulations, this can be a neat little method of creating promotional displays.
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