dai sensei
27th December 2011, 08:15 PM
Gawdelpus (John) came around on boxing day and we were going to cast some more larger pine cones and Banksia. I start the pinecones by cutting off the leafy bits with a bandsaw on 4 sides before I sand them down round to fit my vertical tubular silicon molds. As I cut off the leafy bits, I was thinking hmm, what can I do with these :rolleyes:
Anyway, did the first cast of the banksia with some bright gold resin and had some left over, so put the leafy bits in a block mold, then poured in the leftover resin. It only approximately half filled the mold, so thought I will fill it next time I had some leftovers. Well the next cast 10 minutes later of green was a bit short, so when I made up some more, I did enough to fill the block mold too. The yellow hadn't gone off, but thick enough such that I knew they wouldn't mix.
When it had set and I took the block from the mold I noticed a pretty interesting mix of wooden leafy bits and almost perfect half green half yellow resin. Obviously the yellow had formed some holes though, no pressure, but were filled with the green under the pressure. I couldn't resist turning one to see how it looked.
Fitted to a gold Baron and finished with CA to cover the wooden bits.
Cheers
Anyway, did the first cast of the banksia with some bright gold resin and had some left over, so put the leafy bits in a block mold, then poured in the leftover resin. It only approximately half filled the mold, so thought I will fill it next time I had some leftovers. Well the next cast 10 minutes later of green was a bit short, so when I made up some more, I did enough to fill the block mold too. The yellow hadn't gone off, but thick enough such that I knew they wouldn't mix.
When it had set and I took the block from the mold I noticed a pretty interesting mix of wooden leafy bits and almost perfect half green half yellow resin. Obviously the yellow had formed some holes though, no pressure, but were filled with the green under the pressure. I couldn't resist turning one to see how it looked.
Fitted to a gold Baron and finished with CA to cover the wooden bits.
Cheers