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It's Baking sheet. Used to line cake tins etc.

Thanks LDD. I think the time it would take to wrap the mould in grease-proof paper and get it into the lego, the resin would have set.

Lo Ish.

As Cam said. Greaseproof paper as opposed to Wax paper.

No proper update. I finished the commission piece and have attempted some more casts, but have mostly succeeded in making more broken things. Getting ever closer though.

Well there is one side effect from all this...

You will soon have enough "wooden" sprue to build a skyscraper. Or one of those amazing American railway bridges.

or a wooden coaster...

Yeah, I'm building a stockpile of future terrain bits at the moment.
I'm currently sorting the "failed" casts into
a) sprue,
b) bits that can be used as spares/whole parts,
c) bits that can be used as broken parts
and scrap.

apart from the scrap pile, c) is the largest collection so far...

Talking of collections, I may have a look though my various boxes of random "junk" for pieces that could be used as "junk" in Skalk's junk pile contest. Just for a change of pace.

lol....so you are producing your own junk for the comps entry... i wonder if that is an intended way of interpretation of the rules....

Indeed, it is my cunning plan...

Although seriously, I not sure if I will use any of my casts for the junk comp' yet. I have plenty of other actual real-life junk stored up, I may not need to. We will have to see, there's no rush yet.

Keep telling yourself that for the next few weeks

 monkeytroll wrote:
Keep telling yourself that for the next few weeks

You won't get me like that Monkey...

LOL! good ideas is why we have such a community.

Indeed, and sharing those ideas helps all of us.

Good News; I have a cast that has come out without missing any pieces and is set properly...

Still too much flash from this mould, but I know why... the flash is thicker nearer the middle (top to bottom) of the mould, which must be due to the tightness of the rubber bands giving it a slight bow. I have a solution to this that I will try next time.

The trick (if you can call it that) to getting this cast was to give myself enough time to let the resin level out within the mould. As it always fills the parts nearest the "in" first. You have to let the resin flow by itself into the further parts of the mould and then continue to fill the mould.

Once I have a complete cast from each mould I will start building a stock of casts and then I'll be ready to start selling them off.
You patience has been appreciated.

Grats on a full cast

Woot!

Full model cast


joke really wasn't worth the 7edits, but it was annoying me how I kept messing I up

Try two boards and sandwich the molds. Also did you use a syringe this time?

Thanks MT
Thanks Cam

Theo, I assume that's an american show that (judging from the picture) I'm glad to have missed.
and lol at 7 edits.

Galorn wrote:Try two boards and sandwich the molds. Also did you use a syringe this time?

Thanks Galorn. I think I have it solved (well minimised) with the addition of some cylindrical objects (pens) under the rubber bands in the middle of the boards I'm using.

Yes I'm using a syringe as it allows a little positive pressure to get the resin down into the mould.
I will have to buy some more syringes as the one I'm using is starting to look a little battle-worn.

Question: What does every scientist like?

Answer: Repeatable results!

That's a full set, cast one after the other, with no mishaps and minimal flash (mostly removed for these pictures).
I think I have this casting thing down.

So now I know what I'm doing and the moulds appear to be behaving, how many of what thing do you want?
With reference to the above picture:
Toilets.
Tiny toilets (separate, not on sprue) ,
Tainted toilets (FO3 style, on sprue) .
Boxes (top to bottom);
Box 3,
Box 2,
Box 1.

Let me know by PM as it's probably easiest like that.
This is not for orders just yet (and is not a binding agreement for you), this is just so I can get an idea of how many I need to be making.
I will let you all know when I'm ready to start taking orders and have decided on what these will cost...

i am currently without any need for toilets... but i am definetly in it for some awesome wooden boxes...at least i would need for our something like that...depends on pricing if i would go fully ballistic... and of course i would like to wait till you have that oblong version you keep teasing me with

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
i am currently without any need for toilets...

That must be painful...

but i am definetly in it for some awesome wooden boxes...at least i would need for our something like that...depends on pricing if i would go fully ballistic... and of course i would like to wait till you have that oblong version you keep teasing me with

Box 3 there is one of the two oblong boxes I designed. The other one with the cross-beam will have to wait until I have more (money for) silicone.
I will let you know when I know how much I'm thinking of selling these for...

after hitting the submit button i had a look again at the casts... and indeed you already have an oblong box ...

and not as painful as you might need to know...

I have been casting today and I'm currently on the third set of casts. So progress is being made (albeit slowly) but is no more exciting than the previous picture...

and by way of a teaser (as I've decided to keep my actual junk pile under wraps when I eventually get round to making it) here's a picture to show where the pieces are coming from... amongst this junk, a junk pile awaits...

Top left is my small plastic bits collection,
Top right is my small metal bits collection,
Middle is my medium sizes bits collections,
Bottom left is my "odd" materials collection,
Bottom right is my "tubes" collection...

Not shown are my "Large bits", Springs, Wires, Basing stuff, Sprue, Sprue waste, Putty waste, Lids/flat objects, GW bitz and "Other model" bitz collections...
...did I mention my hoarding habit...

From those things show above, I have selected interesting looking things for the junk pile. But this may be added to or cut down when it comes to actually building the pile... You will just have to wait...

...did I mention my hoarding habit...

you wouldn´t want to see my junk collection...

nice lil and curiosly hue homogen collection pics

i see lots of stuff i have collected too...that pink bref cup/spoon... i think we have to thank you brits for that color in my collection... bref and other british cleaning substances get more ´n more popular these days...

Nice little starting haul you have there.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

...did I mention my hoarding habit...

you wouldn´t want to see my junk collection...

Yeah We've had this conversation before. That in the picture is only a fraction of my model parts collection that ranges from the stripped remains of a broken (most definitely is now ) cd/radio, through soap dispenser and pill bottles, through what you see here, down to shavings/clippings of sprue... It'll all be useful one day...

nice lil and curiosly hue homogen collection pics

i see lots of stuff i have collected too...that pink bref cup/spoon... i think we have to thank you brits for that color in my collection... bref and other british cleaning substances get more ´n more popular these days...

Those are from "Vanish" in my case.
We can't help what the starting colouration of our bits are when you collect these things. But that's what paint is for.

Oh - that's what it's for

Didn't think it tasted all that good

monkeytroll wrote:Nice little starting haul you have there.

Yeah, hence the length of time it's taken me to go through it all...

monkeytroll wrote:Oh - that's what it's for

Didn't think it tasted all that good

You adorable little scam you...

Mum said she'd destroyed that pic

Someone's been busy! Glad to see your making progress with this project, very nice stuff your working on, mate.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Someone's been busy! Glad to see your making progress with this project, very nice stuff your working on, mate.

I have indeed...

Thanks Casey.
It's quite hard work with limited space, equipment and materials. But I'm getting there...

In other news; I have had what could be a brilliant idea for my junk pile, so I will do some work on that tomorrow.

does it involve millionzillions of toilets?

looks amazing how productive you have become!

Adversity breeds... something. I forget. Success? Innovation? I think I'm mixing up quotes now.

Adversity breeds toilets! Yeah... that'll do just fine.