| Bondo silicone mold | |
| When creating an action figure, a sculptor will create an original design out of wax or a similar material. This initial sculpt is fragile and needs to subsequently be converted into hard copies, which can be further tooled and used in the toymaking process. In order to turn the original sculpt into prototype hardcopy figures. A silicone mold is made from each original sculpt part. Resin is then subsequently poured into the newly created mold and allowed to harden creating nearly identical copies of the original sculpture in fine detail. Silicone molds remain one of the scarcest prototype stages to have survived. This is the silicone mold created for the Bondo figure head, one of the unproduced Ewok figures sculpted at the end of the Kenner line. Accompanying pictures show a completed Bondo figure hardcopy fully assembled and hand painted along with its accessories and collectors coin. A small chip of pink paint is missing on the right chest revealing the green dynacast urethane used for this piece. The hardcopy head, when removed fits like a puzzle piece into its original mold. Within the hardcopy mold small specks of colored urethane can also be appreciated as leftover remnants of the process. |
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| Description by: | Yehuda Kleinman |
| Photo: | Yehuda Kleinman |
| From the collection of: | Yehuda Kleinman |
| Country: | United States |
| Film: | Ewoks Cartoon |
| Licensee: | Kenner |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Category: | Prototypes / Action Figure Related |