From Bean Bag Toss to Captain America Shield Toss Game
Introduction: From Bean Bag Toss to Captain America Shield Toss Game
The whole point of this Instructable isn't to take a Captain America Shield and make it in to a bean bag tossing game. Its to hopefully inspire you to take something that you already have and make it your unique or add your own twist to it. We have made several versions of this same game using the original pieces but just changed a few things here and there and we can make it in to something different.
Growing up neither my wife nor I had a lot of birthday parties so now we like to go all out when it comes to our kids. Whenever we have birthday party for our kids we make it a themed party. We let our kids decide the theme and then we decorate accordingly to match the theme. The whole family gets involved because we like to try and make a lot of the decorations too or as many as we can. One of things we have come to be known for is out party games. My wife loves to have the kids play different party games for prizes. They play everything from sack races, to hula hoop contest, to limbo contest, these games are always a big hit with little and big kids alike. Since the party is themed we like to try and make the games themed as well. Sometimes its just a name change or we change one of the accessories of the game. For this build I decided to turn our bean bag tossing game in to a Captain America Shield tossing game.
You might be thinking I don't need to know how to reinvent a game for a birthday party but in this Instructable I will cover how to make a mold of a plastic toy then duplicate it. This could come in handy for replacing broken toy pieces or missing pieces.
Supplies
Toy Shield
Dremel
Scarp wood or similar
Hot Glue Gun
Wooden Dowel
Casting Silicone
Pressure Pot
Razor Knife
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Epoxy
Epoxy Dye
Stir Sticks
Sand Paper
Polishing Compound
Step 1:
This toy Captain America shield is from one of my son's action figures. He doesn't play with it anymore so he let me use it for this project. It has a small peg that I cut off using a Dremel with a cut off disc. 726
I could have left this on but it would have made the mold more complex than it needs to be.
Step 2:
I took some scrap pieces of a white board, it can be any scrap pieces or even corrugated poster board will work for this part, and made a open faced box. I used hot glue to make sure I sealed up all the edges to prevent any leaks. The box has to be big enough for the shield actually it has to be bigger than shield you want to leave about a 1/4 inch of space all around the edge of the shield as well as the depth of the shield.
Step 3:
Since this is the model that I will use to make a mold of I needed to make a pour spout so I took a 3/8 inch dowel and cut it to fit the edge of the shield then I used a hot glue gun to attach it to the shield.
Step 4:
The shield needs to be suspended in the center of the box to make this work I drilled a 3/8 inch hole in the side of the box that would allow me to insert the 3/8 inch dowel. I secured it in place using hot glue.
Step 5:
Next I mixed up some two part silicone per the instructions and poured it in to the mold. You want to try and pour in the silicone from a corner and let it fill the all the voids slowly. Once the mold was full I put the entire box in my pressure pot. I pressured it up to 50 psi. and let it cure. This specific silicone cures in 30 minutes but I let it set for a few hours just to make sure it was set.
Step 6:
Once is was fully cured I released the pressure in the pot and then removed my mold from the box and used my razor knife to cut open part of the mold. This is were I realized I probably should have made a two part mold instead. When I cut out the shield my razor went in too deep and created an imperfection in the mold you can see this in the last picture. If I would have made a two part mold this would not have happened. As they say live and learn.
Step 7:
I needed to support the mold vertically so I used some scrap plywood and made a mold holder. This is nothing fancy just something that will hold the mold vertically.
Step 8:
It was time for my first attempt at making a duplicate shield. I used some Total Boat Epoxy that I had and mixed it per the instructions. 254