V for Vendetta buckle

[Darth Mule]

So some new progress made today. Belt is nearly finished, I just have to revisit the dagger frogs and figure out a closure. Here's my newly cast buckle. Turns out pewter is both fun and easy to work with. Who knew? Melt it on the stove. Anyway, I carved this out of balsa, sanded, shellacced, negative cast in silicone, recast in Pewter. Need to do the cleaning up still, but here's what I have so far. The squares are an inch each, so you can see it's a bit larger than the one Russrep was offering, which IMO was wayyyyyyy too small. This one will accept a 2.5" belt. Tho the V belt is shaped, so it's actually thicker everywhere else. Mine is 3.5 around the waist and 2.5 where it goes thru the buckle.

 

[Shadow Duchess]

Looks pretty good so far, as for working in pewter isn' t it a pleasant surprise finding out that with a good mold that can handle the heat that it's fairly easy to handle?
I find that you have to be quick to pour though.
Looking forward to seeing more.

 

[BlindSquirrel]

That looks great. :thumbsup

Did you take any WIP photos?...I'm interested in how the pewter fabrication works.

 

[Darth Mule]

<div class='quotetop'>(Shadow Duchess @ Aug 21 2006, 09:26 AM) [snapback]1304457[/snapback]</div>

Looks pretty good so far, as for working in pewter isn' t it a pleasant surprise finding out that with a good mold that can handle the heat that it's fairly easy to handle?
I find that you have to be quick to pour though.
Looking forward to seeing more.
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Yes, I was hesitant to believe it was that easy. I talked to Toby (sithcamaro) about it because he has done the pewter casting a fair bit, and I thought he was just overeggagerating when he said you could melt it on the stove. He wasn't. You do have to pour pretty quickly tho.

Sorry no WIP pics. It's really not much different than resin casting with the exception of melting the casting materials over a stove instead of a two-part plastic.