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.
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