Alright .. here's the photo diary of the Minions
The plan and one of the molds I used .. instant oatmeal cereal box
I used a cardboard insert in my silicone mold and poured the pants first. Sorry but the photo doesn't show the cardboard shaping for the pants well. I poured the pants upside down in a U shape with the bib being the U. Once dry I unmolded them and then turned them over and put them back into a different mold with the bib upright
Then my camera experienced a huge glitch and while I thought I had photos of the next step .. I didn't. Huge apologies. I put the block of pants into another mold, tall and narrow, so that the front of the bib was facing upward and used a silicone cutting mat to shape the heads and poured the yellow for the main body/head.
Bascially I poured all the pants and body/heads at once, with the original plan being to cut them into individual soaps after they were complete. But several failed attempts to make proper eyes and Soaping 101's soap carving video encouraged me to cut them into individual soaps before completing the rest.
Then also missing due to the camera glitch, I cut the block into individual Minions and carved out the goggle frames using a hole saw blade. I rested the blade on the soap and tapped it into the soap with a hammer, then turned it and tapped again and continued doing this until the entire circle was cut through.
After that I marked the strap locations for the goggles and pants but didn't want to separate the head into two pieces (as you'll see below if you look closely for the mark lines). I poured the frame for the goggles next, using a piece of rubber tube to prevent the entire circle from being filled because I didn't have another saw blade in the right size to cut the eye.
The four Minions waiting for goggles