On a recent field trip to the Australian Museum, Bunyan Films had a behind
the scenes tour of how Por-A-Kast and Por-A-Mold products are being used for world quality exhibits and displays. Hank Van Leeuwen director of the Palentology moulding and casting department, was our guide. The department makes all sorts of sculls & reproductions of dinosaurs, fossils, skeletons, and even casts from life. 

Pictured is Por-A-Mold SG-450 used to make rubbery reproductions of a Sun Bear's feet. The SG-450 has also been coloured brown.

The Australian Museum requires materials of the highest standard able to reproduce castings and moulds for virtually any situation. The range of uses is as diverse as full dinosaur skeletons to minute paper thin bat skulls.

Pictured here are some crocodile teeth. Using Por-A-Kast Mk 2.

 Unique Fossil

Pictured here is the top half of a diprotodon's skull. It was once a huge rhino sized marsupial relative of the wombat. This delicate plaster cast of the 10,000,000 year old creature is it's self over 100 years old. As it is a rare cast from an even rarer fossil find, this piece needed to be cast again. The Australian Museum has one of the only full fossil skeletons of this ancient creature. The Museum will be displaying this skeleton in an upcoming exhibition featuring Australian Dinosaurs later this year. In the photograph we see the skull being prepared for an injected silicone mould.

An ancient metallic pterodactyl?
No, just one cast in Por-a-Kast Mk 2
with aluminum metal powder added.

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In a recent television commercial Bunyan films created for The Great Outdoor Camping Centres Por-A-Mold S-111 was exclusively used to create a fully articulated animation puppet.
pictured right S-111 is poured over an original sculpted wing made from plasticine

"Normally puppets are made with foaming latex or liquid latex rubber" Antony Bunyan said,"but they are slow, expensive and problematic products to work with. Now, not only do I make the puppets out of Por-A-Mold but the actual moulds as well".

As you can see Antony has tinted the S-111 with Oxide Red Tinter to produce an excellent base colour.

Antony has found the Por-A-Mold polyurethane rubbers to be very tough and durable, able to withstand the rigors of constant handling, bending into many positions, and hot lights.

De-moulding the body of the puppet.