Category Archives: Resin Casting

I wasn’t going to post another of these attempts as I’d hoped to be actually doing something with it now, but as it turned out, the red owl was a failure. It never cured properly: I figured out I’d simply not been careful enough measuring the quantities, so it remained really bendy. I had toContinue reading “Epoxy Resin Casting Attempt #3”

I tried the resin again, this time using the vacuum chamber. I mixed it up (using a different glow in the dark colour this time), and cycled it in the vacuum chamber a couple of times. The resin mixture also did the boiling in a vacuum thing! Yay! Once I removed it, the liquid lookedContinue reading “Epoxy Resin Casting Attempt #2”

I wanted to try something different so I thought I’d give Epoxy Resin casting a go. I have this cute Greek holiday trinket I inherited from my dad which I felt would make a good test piece: So, to cast it I first need to make a mould, then I need to fill the mouldContinue reading “Epoxy Resin Casting Attempt #1”