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In all honesty, my initial reaction was the same, but having now used the X-Preg a fair bit, I can confirm it is far superior to the EasyPreg.
It is a bit of a shame about vinyl ester, I'm in the same boat with having a lot of vinyl ester tools that aren't going to do me much good anymore. I don't have access to Unimould, but I use the Reichold tooling system which is very similar, and results with the X-Preg aren't actually terrible. They do have some pinholes, so it isn't 100% perfect. Gloss and everything else is actually better than the EasyPreg, so parts do still come out looking very nice. If that is unacceptable then you will need to make epoxy moulds, but I dare say most people would actually still be very happy with the results using X-Preg in a vinyl ester mould.
As for making complex split moulds with the tooling pre-preg, it is only really a couple of extra steps abd of course some more material costs. If you already have moulds, then it's as simple as just laying up a laminate with epoxy resin and copying the entire mould including the flanges and barriers. Then you can use those pieces to make the pre-preg tools. If you need to make new moulds, then you do need to make an initial splash mould in the ordinary fashion, then the epoxy patterns, then the pre-preg. So it's a bit of a pain in the ass, but not really that much more drama if you are actually getting use out of your moulds - for one-offs it probably isn't worth it, but then you can just make your tools via hand lamination with high temp epoxy.
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