Yep, down to the wire. Thanks O_B
Thanks Aoshi1 and Propazoid!
Moving right along.........."You could have heard a pin drop." And I did--several times :confused
The Pins
Not in my skill set to make pins and I'm gonna prove it
But I had to try, the real deals weren't in my budget.
Made the Pan Am jacket pin a couple of weeks ago.I bought one of those plastic "Junior Flyer" Pan Am pins to mold and cast one similar to the one winged stewardess pin in the series. I used some of that Sculpey Mold Maker clay to make the mold. After I baked it, I then filled in the one wing and the words "Junior Flyer" then baked it again. Molded the pin out of Sculpey and it came out a little wonky and distorted, I pressed on with it. Baked the thing, painted it with some metallic gold acrylic and hit the letters with some powdery blue. Let the thing dry and glossed it up with some clear nail polish. Glued on a pin back and I was done, though not proud :$
Okay, so I had the 1 1/2 inch Pan Am logo decal that Rick Hanson made for me and I needed to find something to put it on to make it into a pin. I ran up to the hardware store hoping to find a brass disk or plug of some kind, but alas there was nothing that size nor brass and I didn't have time to go running all over looking for something, so I settled for a fender washer. It had a tiny whole in the middle, so I filled it with Sculpey and ran a couple of wires though it to be the means by which I would attach the pin to the hat.
Fender Washers
Clayed and Wired
Baked that, then cut a circle of the blue fabric and ran it down over the wires and glued it to the back to help prevent the clay plug from dislodging. I covered the front with some gold foil I had on hand. It didn't come out as smooth as I would have liked, but it looked reasonably OK.
Fabric backed
Front foiled
After letting the glue dry, I stuck on the decal sticker.
Decal on
I had intended to apply gold Rub-n-Buff to the entire thing, let it dry and buff it up and be done.......until another but NOOOOO! moment. The Rub-n-Buff would not stick to the decal nor the foil. Tried the gold metallic acrylic, it wouldn't stick either. Had a gold paint pen and I tried that. Nope, not sticking. So I just gave up and cleaned the whole thing off with some paint thinner. I didn't really mind how it looked the white on gold, actually. And since the hat has the white piping, it looks well enough and I'm calling the hat and hat pin DONE!
And done and done...............
Thanks again, Rick, for everything!