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Gary Gifford wrote on Sun, Nov 19, 2006 03:28 PM UTC:
James Spratt wrote [in the last DragonChess comment] that you can make
heat-free rubber molds ...out of simple clear silicon window-caulking (see
his complete comment for details).  Another method is to use Sculpy which
is a registered trademark name for an elastic polymer (like clay) which
you can add great detail to exacting shapes.  Sculpy comes in various
colors and can be bought in stone textures (great if you want pieces to
look like stone).  After you make a piece (one of each type you need) bake
them iin a standard kitchen oven per instructions.  Once cooled, the
hardened pieces can be pressed into sculpy to make molds.  The 2 mold
halves must be baked for hardening.  Once you have all your molds it is
easy to make uniform sets of pieces.  You can read a lot about Sculpy on
the internet.  I have made quite a few things from it myself... some of
which people didn't even belive that I made (they appear to be of store
quality).  Note: you can also paint Sculpy, but I prefer to use the
exisiting colors so I can avoid painting.