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Has anyone tried to count how many times it can be used such a mold? I would like to make some pieces of decorative brick for myself, not thicker than 2 cm. Can special RTV silicone for molds be the cheaper option for multiple use?

Only small particles are dangerous to human health and you can’t check whether they have been caught by relying on your 99.99999 percentage . It is just misleading.

thank, you for you're helpful video.👍

Very interesting. One question. Can I use corn flour instead of Corn Starch?

The work you do sets a whole new standard ! Amazing is an understatement and a great video!!

2:22 you said silicone instead of cornstarch

Some outstanding work here. I particularly like the idea of using the sisal fibers and liquid rubber for reeds.

this is stunning. great talent.

I model on the cheap. I make all my own ground scatter (flocking) out of either sawdust that gets coloured in the electric coffee grinder my wife gave me for modeling, or foam rubber done same way in the coffee grinder. That way you can control the colours and the granularity of your finished product. I also make my own iron oxide (rust) by soaking about 4 pieces of 0000 steel wool in a quart jar with white vinegar. After about a month sitting in the window, I pour the mixture into a large pan (I use my old 11" x 14" stainless steel photo fixer trays when I had a darkroom) or baking dish and wait for the mixture to completely dry (usually about 2 to 3 weeks). Then I take a single edge razor blade and pulverize the contents into a fine powder and store it in little tins. Each batch I've done comes out a little different in colour. Then you use the rust as you would any weathering powder or chalk. It looks real, 'cause it IS real rust! I also colour my own chalk with acrylic paint and food colouring. I never buy weathering powders. Instead, I go to the dollar store and buy women's makeup in the little plastic containers. For $1.00 you can get quite a collection of different colours and they adhere better than weathering powders. For trees, I use the Nandena bush after the little red berries fall off, it leaves a perfect tree trunk (armature). I also have a TON of lichen growing out back on the hill behind my house. When using the Nandena bush tree armatures, you can paint them whatever colour you want--even grey for aspen trees. Cover the armatures with lichen, seafoam or whatever you want, then add your own home-made flocking and you're done. For pine trees, I use florist wire (wrapped) doubled and bits of jute cut in 1 to 1 1/2" laid in the wire, then using a drill, twist the wire while holding the other end in a pair of pliers.. I also use barbeque bamboo skewers with pig hair (horse hair) furnace filters (they're already green); have to paint the skewers first. And I never use spray paint since I use my airbrush for all my painting. I can use either acrylic or oil base paints; I usually use one airbrush for acrylic and the other one for oil base paints. Cheers from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee

Thank you for this very illuminating tutorial. I am doing something similar and have a little tip to add. I also found the ‘tentacles’ challenging, and then hit on the idea of doing them horizontally on a silicone mat. Then I glue the hardened drips onto the model. One other technique I am using is to wrap aluminium food containers around a wooden post. These are stiffer than foil, and also free. They take on some interesting folds, and I found them easy to use. Admittedly my scene is on a larger scale than yours. Really appreciate the diversity of techniques you used to get the different effects, and such a great result!

wait are the willow tree real or fake?? was wondering if you could use real tree and branches for dioramas

It’s beautiful, I love the willow tree!

I use epoxy resin, can this be used as well?

If you want your cheaper molds to last longer add a lot less cornflour and after it’s cured on the positive - before removing it, cover the back of the mold with a thick layer of plaster with a few registration marks to match it up again later. This will give your softer silicone mold rigidity. Place the silicone mold into the plaster mother mold cast your positive into the mold, remove the mould from the mother mold and pull out the cast.

Amazing there are no other words

Awesome work

Lovely diorama! Is it Mac Mac falls by any chance?

That is one of the nicest water/ willow diorama's I've seen. I've been searching the web to try and find someone who has made or can make a good looking willow tree. I've found that craftsman. Now all I have to do is transfer it into N scale. I don't suppose you do a Peppercorn tree as well or know of someone who can? Your mixing of odd components to make things with is great. The river weeds and the moss. My railway scenery job has just been made a whole world easier. Mate a fantastic result. You wouldn't think a clump of dry grass could be made to look so good.

You can skip the corn starch all together and the molds last a lot longer. What you do is put some dish-soap into water (a good amount but don't go overboard.) Squeeze the silicon out into the water and you can work it in the water without it sticking to your skin. As it begins to stiffen, you can kneed and shape it similar to the cornstarch method. Arrived here via originally discovering you from the sculptamold replacement video. I've been using that mix myself ever since! Cheers.

Дуже дякую! Дуже гарно! І англійську мову також вчимо одночасно. (Thank you very much! Very nice! And we also learn English at the same time.)

Saludos desde California

Great work! Congratulations!

Artwork!

Really cool, I’m gonna try this on my diorama

I was drawn to your channel to view silicone molds. Love this diorama. Beautiful work.

Brilliant!!!

Lovely build! Going to try the liquid rubber/ reed technique

Holy cow! That is phenomenal!

AWSOME INSPIRATION! THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR SKILLS WITH US! I like how you tested the waters route ahead of time and made adjustments accordingly. Awsome work! Truly inspiring. Thanks.

Can this be used on wood? I have a claw foot wooden table that I’m needing to repair.

If you used less cornstarch..would you avoid it getting hard and crack?

Amazing cave , looks so real, thank your for the only best cave tutorial 🙏🏽🤩

First time watching your channel love all your scenery great work

Awesome tutorial, I'm an architecture student, and this technique is a game-changer, thank you!🙏🏻🙌

Thank you too. I can now try to make a mold!

Fantastic. Congratulations.

"Can somebody tell me which waterfall in Mpumalanga south Africa was used in this diorama video?" (I'd would really like to know.)

You are an incredible artist!! It was a pleasure to watch you work and you deliver your videos in such an easy to follow way; I learned so much… thank you!

Beautiful

Felicitaciones, una clase magistral.

What color schemes did you use? I'm making my own cave diorama and your colors look much more realistic than mine.

Nice diorama and techniques, but a suggestion would be to eliminate the background music! Sorry, but it's really awful and you don't need it. I found myself turning the sound down most of the time. Otherwise, a great job on a difficult subject.

Thanks for sharing

Please come back with some more tutorials, they really are good.

That was magnificent to watch and the results are stunning, thanks for sharing :0)

That is not a double cyclone that's a single cyclone with a bucket extension. And the whistling is coming from using a ribbed hose with a powerful vacuum.

Good video, but the music is VERY distracting and loud with earbuds.

Very nice. How does it handle finer dust?

This cave looks pretty cool, and realistic. I do wish that you would've coloured the water a bluish turquoise colour though, because I think the water would've looked better if you had done that. I'm also not sure why you added things in white at the end... but other than that, this looks awesome. Great video 👍

Wow. This is good.