Spoke to Andy and Don- Ceramics technicians, about my fears about the amount of silicone being too thin to make accurate casts from and they agreed that it was too thin a coating and would be far too messy to try and use them to cast from as they were. So we came up with a new way, making small cylindrical tubes with a clay bottom that the figurines will sit in
and then pouring a slightly hardened silicone mix in. Once set i should have a better more solid mold to cast from.
So that's that done, again i have to let it set overnight before i can see if they will be solid enough to cast from. Which is a bit of a shame as when i began this i thought it would be quite a simple way of getting a vast number of resin figurines quite quickly, but nothing ever turns out to be simple. It will mean that i won't have them to show at my final crit on Monday but i am hoping to start casting Monday afternoon so i will know by then whether this week in casting has been a wasted effort or not
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