Advice on mask making

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Nicola

Hey there, I'm not entirely sure this is in the right section, and I apologise if it isn't.
I'm currently trying to help out with a student production, and I've been tasked with making masks due to my halloween attempt where I painted liquid latex on my face etc.
It worked fine for that, but I've now been asked to make a series of masks which will be durable, not entirely flexible and ones which only cover the face, not the whole head.
Does anyone know any tricks I could use to do this? I'm thinking perhaps some layers of liquid latex sandwiching a layer of burlap/bandages or something in many layers of liquid latex could recreate what's being looked for, not I thought you guys might be able to let me know if I'm going in the right direction!
Thanks if you can help!
 
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Indymogul.com had a tutorial on one of the halloween episodes where they chopped apart a werewolf mask and turned it into a multi-piece appliance. (Appliance is the term to search for in youtube along with latex or silicone -- and silicone is a better option for longer lasting pieces).. Check brickintheyard.com for good silicone for making appliances.
 
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Quick and easy:
Make an alginate/plaster mold of the actors face.
Remove the mold and brush in plat-gel silicone thickened with plat-thix and cloth fiber (rigidity)

This will take about 30 minutes start to finish.

The right way:
Make an alginate/plaster mold of the actor
Cast the mold in plaster
Add clay and sculpt new details on the plaster mold
Make a silicone or RTV mold of the sculpt
Cast the new mold in encapsulated silicone (or latex)
 
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Nicola said:
The problem is all the masks I'm being shown are for the full head, whereas I'm looking for a mask that only covers the face.
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The overall method is exactly the same. You can adapt the full
head masks to face masks easily.

Once you make the mask negative you can use only latex (several
layers) or you can reinforce the latex with burlap or bandages or
even paper towels.
 
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