Constructing a 3D Settlers of Catan Board

Step 2 Additional Supplies

I strongly recomment some rubber gloves, a big stack of plastic cups, and some plastic spoons. The silicone is real greasy and difficult to wash off of things like your fingers. try not to get it all over everything. Use the plastic cups to mix your silicone. The cool thing is they clean up easywait for the silicone to cure then just peel it out of the cup and (if you mixed things up good), you can reuse the cup.

The two important things to remember here are: one, make sure you measure as accurately as possible each of the silicone liquids. Too much of either one and youll have stuff seeping out of your molds. Two, make sure you mix the two liquids completely. Its got a long enough pot life, so spend the extra minute or two mixing the silicone.

Take a couple of plastic cups, put one inside the other and pour 1/4 cup of water in the top cup. mark the side of the bottom cup at the level of the water. Repeat for 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, and 1 cup. You must have large cups to mix 1 cup of each liquid. Plus, the silicone gets harder to stir properly with plastic utensils when you have that much liquid. Remove the cup with the water in it, put a new cup in and measure parts A and B (in different cups). You can reuse the measuring cup until the project is done. Sorry about the dim picture, this one was hard to get with a flash. Look closely towards the bottom of the cup.