All of my castings had been with Alumilite's Super Plastic. It was readily available at my hobby store and I was anxious to start casting starships so I could work on a simple ruleset for ship to ship combat.
Over this weekend I went down to my local plastic store and picked up a $27 set of Smooth-on's Smooth Cast 300 on the advice of the great guys at https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/Stargrunt2/. It has a pretty similar working and set time when compared with Super Plastic.
However the A and B part of Smoothcast are less viscous which allows it to take finer detail in the molds that are being cast. That is a win.
I haven't seen a compareable size of Smoothcast vs Superplastic in the stores. But I know from the small bottles of Super Plastic I got in a kit, that the $27 set of Smooth Cast will last me a lot of castings.
I also suspect the lower viscosity of this resin will allow air bubbles to be removed easier, although I haven't personally had an issue with it.
In the end Smooth Cast was easily worth the purchase price.
Thumbs up on this product.
'Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,' the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. 'Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.'
-Robert E. Howard
Beyond The Black River
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