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Alligators
Art Casting Rollover
The Alligator Project

Alligators
Artists
Kelly
Nests
Rostovsky
Statue of Job
Alligators

The alligators were created for a gallery in Florida and were used as a fund raiser. The original art was provided by the gallery and site molds were created by another company. Beyond Design produced the production molds, the production line and the final products.

Mold Alligator
Complex, multipart silicone molds with fiberglass mother molds were made for this project. Steel tube attachment structure was integrated for attachment to the rotocasting machine.
Allligator and Girl
The alligators were rotocast in Smooth On Task 15. Once the Task made an initial set, we poured 5 pound urethane foam in the cavity for internal structure.
There were two different alligators and two mold assemblies that were alternately set up to be rotocast while the other mold was taken apart, the alligator de-molded and the mold reassembled and prepped for casting.
The exotherm from the foam (200+ degrees) accelerated the cure time of the Task 15 so we were able to de-mold the alligators a few minutes after the foam was poured. In all about 150 alligators were made.
They were primed in a urethane primer and shipped to individual artists who painted them in their own designs. They were then auctioned for charity, raising over $750,000.

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