987654321a
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So I remember a long time ago about 6 or so months ago, I was in an antique store and the morgan peace dollar popped into my head. So I bought one for 20 bucks and I molded it. Now I am thinking of offering polyurethane resin copies of this in the junkyard, but I would have to see if there is enough interest in a plastic copy. It is not metal, but it still goes good with a HD costume. I use very strong polyurethane fast curing resin.
My first prototype casting was used as a test for different painting techniques. It looked like crap especially when I clearcoated it and it lost about 40% of the detail. I used, and still use charcoal powder on the back but the excess amount of clearcoat I used resulted in lumps and clumps of the powder.... :lol
My second prototype casting was also a test coin, it was horrible as well. I didnt have any alluminum powder on hand so I did something else which was a waste of time. Haha.... you ready for it? I grinded down alluminum and mixed down the very little powder I had in there with the polyurethane. Well not only was it not enough but I learned that Cold Cast powder should be used with a clear resin.....
My third prototype casting was awesome because I used some leftover bondo body filler from another project I was working on. I squeezed the mold halves together and from it, I got a cool body filler coin.
This is the real coin to compare to my prototypes and my personal coin.
Next is just a clean no paint, no powder resin coin.
And now, this is my last prototype and best coin out of all of my coins. I sprayed both halves of the mold with silver paint, waited for it to dry, and poured in my resin. This resulted in the best detailed coin I made out of all of them, and this is what all of the coins I am selling will look like.
Let me know what you think.
My first prototype casting was used as a test for different painting techniques. It looked like crap especially when I clearcoated it and it lost about 40% of the detail. I used, and still use charcoal powder on the back but the excess amount of clearcoat I used resulted in lumps and clumps of the powder.... :lol
My second prototype casting was also a test coin, it was horrible as well. I didnt have any alluminum powder on hand so I did something else which was a waste of time. Haha.... you ready for it? I grinded down alluminum and mixed down the very little powder I had in there with the polyurethane. Well not only was it not enough but I learned that Cold Cast powder should be used with a clear resin.....
My third prototype casting was awesome because I used some leftover bondo body filler from another project I was working on. I squeezed the mold halves together and from it, I got a cool body filler coin.
This is the real coin to compare to my prototypes and my personal coin.
Next is just a clean no paint, no powder resin coin.
And now, this is my last prototype and best coin out of all of my coins. I sprayed both halves of the mold with silver paint, waited for it to dry, and poured in my resin. This resulted in the best detailed coin I made out of all of them, and this is what all of the coins I am selling will look like.
Let me know what you think.
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