#resin casting

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

The fossil lab has been partially overhauled into a makeshift art studio this week, because an Australia-wide palaeontology conference is happening later this year and we're putting a bunch of stuff into the auction that'll be happening there! And so I'm going to be doing a lot of model painting over the next couple months starting with this cassowary foot!

The palaeo department got a dead cassowary from a farm in Queensland years ago to add to our comparative anatomy collection, and before it was fully dissected a mould was taken of the right foot. This is a resin cast from that mould which I painted today with multiple washes and drybrushing passes of acrylic paint to match as closely as I could to a real cassowary foot!

Honestly as someone who's relatively new to painting models I'm really pleased with how this one came out! Things are very often not actually the colour you'd assume them to be in real life, so it was a fun brain exercise as well as interesting painting experience.

[katarinanavane]

Playing more Fallen London and revisiting my old carved stone tentacle key piece made me want to make new ones. And why not rainbow glow in the dark?

Started with real keys and polymer clay, then made a mold and cast in resin.

[clockwaysarts]

Time to get sparkly.

[corpseauthority]

To round off me catching up on posting some of my Warframe props I've made, here's my MR 30 slate!

Cast in resin, the slate part itself was sculpted in clay, the MR30 symbol I modeled in Zbrush and then 3d printed. I gifted a handful of these to the DE community team at Tennocon 2025.

I also made a few variants of these: A conquera version that I raffled off for QTCC 2025, a pride flag one as a gift to my spouse, and a Tennocon 2025 themed one I just barely managed to gift to DE Rebecca at Tennocon 2025.

Some WIP pics under the cut, plus bonus signed slate by the devs

WIP of the sculpting process, the golden symbol at that point was a resin cast I had made of the resin print- since it was such a thin piece I didn't want to risk it warping while I worked on the sculpt, so I made a quick mold of that and cast it in some spare resin.

Then the finished sculpt - I'm still super satisfied with how the slate turned out, doing all the stone texture was really fun.

And lastly the raw cast. I added some gold mica to the mold and then cast the resin in it, so all I had to do was paint the slate itself.

I'd honestly love to revisit this in the future and remake it a bit in a way that makes casting them a bit easier, plus I ran out of the mold making silicone I was using while making the mold and had to use some softer silicone just to fill it up all the way which has caused the mold to warp over time D: Plus there's some minor imperfections in the MR30 logo that I'd love to fix up. Idk when or even if I'll get a chance to redo this though tbh since at the time there wasn't really much interest in these.

I did however end up getting the slate I kept signed by everyone from DE I met at Tennocon (including Alad V's voice actor :D)

[0m3g4skanohiforge]

Is that a Mask Monday I hear????

By the stars, it somehow is.

It's been a long while, hasn't it? Allow me to share some updates on the situation.

I still don't have the renovations done yet - admittedly, I've hardly started. Still working on saving up for that... So as it stands, it's likely this could very well be my only release until fall, when this abysmal heat wave passes us by. Death to oil executives. To try to do anything to balance my productivity, I've been testing out larger batches with the safest colour - that being black - to fantastic results so far. Ideally I can make them even larger, but I have yet to see if my colour formulas are messed up by the increase in direct quantity. Time will tell, if I ever get the time again.

The other pressure pot has been busy making molds, which I've also been trying to make more efficiently. It's only slightly working, but still it's nice to have some old molds replaced.

I unfortunately don't have anything exciting to share regarding new colours, as again I've had very little opportunity to test and what I have taken hasn't yielded any exciting results. There are still new masks in Reclamation though, if folks are looking for strange ones. I was really hoping a test would get me something back with a big hurrah, but I'll take being here at all over fading into the ether.

[radioactivetoad]

I have done nothing but make resin bootlegs of pokemon figurines for 2 weeks

[songofamazon]

It's December 4 in Japan already, so that means:

Happy Dragon Age Day!

And I finally got a Rook cast where the Veilguard symbol stayed more or less where I wanted.

[hannahorca]

Chompers figurines are coming soon!! On the left is my original clay sculpt and on the right is an unpainted resin cast! Stay tuned for the final painted look and shop release info 🐸