Molded Bud Project

  Molded bud  with silicone. 

Green-  330 epoxy  with green pigment/ had bubbles 

White - bees wax/ perfection

Purple- purple carving wax/ bubbles

Black- rubber/ worked but not into it / also had bubbles

I Also did a resin test and vacuumed it but that still had bubbles 

these pieces are Zpoxy resin  with electroformed parts 

 .5 volts for 12 hours and then 1.5 volts for 2 hours

Zpoxy takes about 2 and half hours to cure to a solid working state where  then it can be formed  by hand  and left to set for another 3 to 4 hours where it then become hard enough to sand and file 

Total time is about 6 hours

SO my grand plan was that i was going to make huge resin castings  which can be found  at the post
" an attempt"  But I just didn't like them on that scale after all. I tried to add the textile pigment and  they lost their transparent quality. So I am going to move on to using the small scale modes that i made in the beginning, and ditch the  color and just go with it.

my next move it to try and electro form around the castings so that  i can give them an edge.

See that looks great!  but this resin is so brittle that  after it sets its too hard to remove from the void and it cracks. Lame.

The one with the sparkly stones. yeah, dropped it , and it cracked, tried to mask it with the stones but you can stil see it.  These have electroformed edges that i then painted with  epoxy and  textile dye.

 all my molds :) yeah 

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