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| Aluminium (silver) Moon |
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| Bronze Sun |
Thought I would do some resin castings (used to be called cold cast bronzes). I haven't done any for ages so I had to go and get some supplies, such as Resin,metal powders,silicon for moulding etc. These I found have not gone up in price too much since I last made some bronzes some 20 years ago!
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| Brass Star |
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| Bronze Green Man |
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| Brass Green Man |
I already had a couple of moulds that I made back then and I had a nice little wood carving of a Green Man, so I took a mould from the green man and then set about making the bronzes, well I say bronzes but I made some from brass and one from aluminium. They turned out well though I also had a couple of failures due to not measuring my catylyst properly!and boy do they get hot when you put too much cat in, they also bend out of shape because they go off too fast. The Sun,Moon and Star I made out of Plastillin (which is like plasticine that we all used as kids but it doesn,t dry out so quick and gives a smoother finish), then took the silicon moulds. The Greem man I moulded directly from the woodcarving.I have backed them with chamois glove leather (I buy offcuts from Dents the Glovemakers) and put brass hangers on the back, will hopefully sell them at my local craft shop. The best thing is that once you have taken a good quality silicon mould, if they sell you can produce more!
