pandabarnes
Active Member
This is a continuation on my thread asking for casting advice which RogueTrooper kindly helped me out with. These parts are being cast for an e-11 blaster build.
I cast my parts, and suddenly found that when fitting the front nozzle into the barrel, the cast part is slighty smaller than the original, enough that it now rattles around in the barrel instead of fitting snugly.
I checked them against eachother, and sure enough it looks like the polyester resin i used has somehow shrunk during the curing process.
I did put a tiny bit of black pigment in there too, because I thought it would help to have a nice dark base colour, but I'll try it without and see what happens.
Anyone else had experience of this?
Thanks.
I cast my parts, and suddenly found that when fitting the front nozzle into the barrel, the cast part is slighty smaller than the original, enough that it now rattles around in the barrel instead of fitting snugly.
I checked them against eachother, and sure enough it looks like the polyester resin i used has somehow shrunk during the curing process.
I did put a tiny bit of black pigment in there too, because I thought it would help to have a nice dark base colour, but I'll try it without and see what happens.
Anyone else had experience of this?
Thanks.