Grekwood Miniatures

Monday 2 July 2012

Problematic!

I was hoping today to be posting some WIP painted hospital beds, but unfortunately I am not able to. Over the weekend we tried casting the hospital beds but we don't seem to be getting much luck! Air keeps getting trapped in places where the resin finds difficult to flow into (as it's thicker than water). There is pretty much little we can do about it apart from keep trying.

So today I bought some new/different resin, which hopefully has a low enough viscosity to flow into all areas. It will hopefully be here near the end of this week, but could be here next week. I'm not sure if it will work, but it's worth a try right?

Most of the bed comes out fine, but all seem to get minor issues, either with the clipboard or the people's faces or some other random part not quite coming out properly. So I am not happy selling stuff which isn't casting correctly. So if the new resin (when it arrives) is still not producing results, I may have to remove the clip boards from the feet of the beds. If that fails...I'm kinda stuck for ideas. Casting in metal would be far too expensive.

It's put a bit of a downer on things as I was excited to get them cast. I'll try my best to test out different things. I'm determined to get them cast somehow, so it WILL be done! It's just a matter of time and tons of trial and error.

On a more happy note, here's some shops I bought/made. I plan to do a lot of conversion work with them, such as put in a Grekwood Miniatures shop and a bigger supermarket ;)


Over and out...



8 comments:

  1. That's a shame about the beds. I know nothing of the process, so I can't offer any advice.

    Nice buildings you made there, what line are they from?

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    1. Cheers, the building is a "warm acre" one. I have changed the "late shop" to a Grekwood Minis store now lol

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  2. Sorry to hear about the miscasts. Maybe you could try vibrating the molds a little to get the bubbles out or poke some vents?

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    1. The resin is quite "stiff" and hardens pretty quickly. shaking it doesn't really do anything. Good idea though :)

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  3. Sorry no help here either, good luck with the new resin. I've heard of spinning the mold but i'm assuming thats using a machine of some sort.

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    1. Yeah spinning takes place in a casting machine. We have one, but the moulds for the resin we have is a one part hand cast mould, so it wouldn't work in a machine. We'll work something out :)

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  4. Use a sander, upside down to a board. Place the moulds on the board. That may shake the bubbles out....

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    1. It's kinda like syrup, it's quite thick, so bubbles just wont go through it. I can see a tedious couple of weeks ahead! lol

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