Impressive Reusable Molding Putty lets you make a mold any time you want.

It’s not silicone and there’s no limit to the number of molds you can make.

In this blog and video I will show you how to make quick and easy epoxy putty castings using the Impressive Putty, and then I will remelt the mold and make a new mold that I will cast with a heat formable plastic.

So take the Impressive out of the bag, heat it in the microwave. This 3 oz size, softens in 15 to 20 seconds. It can be hot out of the microwave, so be careful. Let it cool so you can handle it easily. At this point the Impressive putty is soft and formable.

Kneed the Impressive Putty a bit to make sure the temperature is equalized throughout, try to smooth out a surface, and then Press in your shape or press the putty over your shape. Either way works.

Impressive Putty can handle temperatures to about 205 F, but due to hysteresis, after softened it won’t re-harden until below about 85 to 100 F making it comfortable to work with. It also makes it work really well for 2 part molds because 1 half won’t stick to the other half unless both sides are heated and softened.

I am placing this mold in the freezer to cool and solidify faster. It took about 15 minutes to cool. You know the mold is ready to go if you press it and your fingerprint doesn’t show. Pull out the original shape and in this case, press in your casting material.

You can cast with many different materials such as epoxy, urethane, soap, wax, polymer clay, regular clay, quick cure concrete, heat formable plastics, and others, which I can’t think of right now. There’s also a lot of art and crafting epoxy putties out there that also work well. Use anyone that you’re comfortable with.

An Impressive Putty mold will also work with UV curing resins as long as you can get the UV light into the epoxy, so open molds will work, but not two part closed molds.

You can add pigments to the epoxy putty to change the color if you like or paint the final part when you’re done.

So just stuff the epoxy putty into the Impressive Putty mold and smooth it out. And you should definitely be using gloves while handling the Epoxy Putty, so do what I say, not what I do.

The Impressive Putty is firm enough to handle the pushing, but it can tear if bent too much. So you wouldn’t be able to flip the mold inside out like you could with a ComposiMold mold.

After you are finished with this mold, you can now re-soften and make another mold. Same process. Heat, press, and cast.

If you don’t have a microwave you can use any heat source like a double boiler or even a heat gun, but be careful not to overheat the Impressive Putty so it burns. That will damage it so it wouldn’t resoften.

Press in your part your duplicating, let it cool, and pull it out of the Impressive Putty. The heat formable plastic is heated in hot water. It needs to heat to above 160 F. The plastic turns clear when it is hot enough and you can form into shape. The plastic probably won’t burn you but the water might, so be careful.

After kneading the heat formable plastic together, I pressed the heat formable plastic into the Impressive Putty mold. The plastic takes a bit too cool to solidify. I could have placed it into the freezer to cool faster, but I tried to make a cool hypertime lapse of the plastic cooling, but it wasn’t as exciting as I hoped.

Now pull it out of the mold, and voila. A small piece of Impressive Putty broke off the mold, so I use scissors to pull that out. That damaged the mold, so I would need to remake this mold to make more of these dinasour shapes, and that is the cool part. Mistakes happen, but you’re not wasting money, you just remake the mold fast and easy.

Thank you.