Hey all,
I decided to go ahead and make a small mountain of mono eyes, lenses, and random round things tonight. Not that I just had tons of extra time, but I couldn't wait to test the colors and get some small lenses cured. I made sure to make tons of the pink ones for zeon mono eyes for any future builds like that sms kampfer conversion I got a little while ago. I also have a neat idea for the clear lenses that I haven't seen done before that I plan to share soon once I make a test version. (possible detail up add on part kit accessory) But anyway here is my bunch of curing colored clear apoxy resin.
I mixed up the clear apoxy resin and since it has a 5 hour pot life (really more like 3.5 with the conditions in this room) I had plenty of time to color tint the various little pallets of apoxy. I carefully used a bamboo skewer and dabbed it into the liquid and let gravity do the rest when I dabbed it again onto a smooth mold top. I use the tops of various molds because they are smooth number one, and two because the apoxy won't cure to it. Now there are some oblong shapes and circles that merged or were made mishapen, but no worries as if even half of them are good its a crapload of good lenses of various sizes and colors, and this in reality only took 65 grams of apoxy. Yeah and I had a ton leftover because I'm stupid and always mix too much. hehe. So it would require even less than I used by half. But you do need a certain amount of material just to make sure your mix ratio has a little play.
Pittures!!
I will be back to my other projects tomorrow, I just needed to do this. Sometimes my curiosity overwhelms all other priorities.
Stay tuned mechaholics...
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