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I have all of this resin form a huge FW order and have no idea what to do with it...this is whats leftover after i have already made about 50 barriers so i dont need any more. are there people who sculpt/ mould that will buy this stuff or am i just stuck with it?

I'm sure you could sell it to someone who will melt it down and mold something with it. I'd say sell it for about 20% MSRP you won't make all your money back but you might make some

I use mine for accents on the bases of most of my ruins terrain. It adds an abandoned, formerly fortified look to a lot of things. Also, you can stack up a big pile of them like you'd see on the side of the road during construction projects, or build a freeway overpass style bridge and run these in between 4-6 lanes to add elevation and depth to your tables. Food for thought

Raven Cowl wrote:
I'm sure you could sell it to someone who will melt it down and mold something with it. I'd say sell it for about 20% MSRP you won't make all your money back but you might make some

I don't think resin melts down all to easily.

I second the terrain ideas. If you have some plastic sprue to chop up to make rubble with you can use those to simulate cornerstones for buildings in your massive rubble piles.

I was looking to buy a bunch as it makes nice rubble. but atm dont need any.

You can smash them into nice looking urban rubble with a hammer and or chisels

you can give them all to me so I can made barricades

Barricades, rubble, objective markers. There's a lot you can do with it

 ClockworkZion wrote:

Raven Cowl wrote:
I'm sure you could sell it to someone who will melt it down and mold something with it. I'd say sell it for about 20% MSRP you won't make all your money back but you might make some

I don't think resin melts down all to easily.

Correct, resin is the end result of a chemical reaction, not a material like metal.

You could no more melt and re-use resin than you could melt a cake in order to retrieve the eggs, flour, sugar etc..

Huh, did not realize that. I thought it was a material, but I learned something today. So that's worth it. thanks

Raven Cowl wrote:
I'm sure you could sell it to someone who will melt it down and mold something with it. I'd say sell it for about 20% MSRP you won't make all your money back but you might make some

As Azreal13 said - You can't just "melt down" resin to reuse it. It's not like polystyrene or ABS or metals.

You can use the chunks as "filler" in larger casts.

You can grind it down into powder and use THAT as filler in a new cast (in the same way you can use plain talc) - this is incredibly messy and pretty much requires a damn good respirator if you are going to do it. Otherwise you'll end up with a lungful of dust - and ALL DUST is bad if you breathe it in (and asbestos or silica dust is even worse).

You won't get anywhere near 20% of the price of FW stuff you bought for it (you might be lucky to get 10%). All the good resin workshops cut this crap off their castings. It's just extra mass you will be paying postage on anyway.

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