Dunkin Junk - Casting Toy Soldiers in Alumilite
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2016
- In this episode I try casting pen blanks using red, white and blue Alumilite resin and embedding the little plastic army men.
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We never know until we try, Thanks for sharing Zac. Thumbs up.
+OG Timbercraft Yep, it's fun to experiment!! Some days it goes great, others are a flop :)
love your videos so much!! where the heck can I find those awesome white molds? I see woodworkers using them all the time. thanks!!
Great experiment Zac!
+AdventuresInDIY Thanks Chris, it was fun. Just wish it would have worked out a little better! Ah well :)
This video makes me want to play Tropico 5 😂😂 great video mate :)
Great video Zac . Loved it 👍🏽
Thanks Nick! Fun to try out some random stuff to dunk in resin :) I think a bottle stopper would have gone better, next time!
Yes that would be cool , I have something like this coming up with lego men ! Haha I do love lego . All the best man 👍🏽
I was sad to see the bowl with the Lego men in it didn't work out totally, but it was awesome looking even through a couple guys got decapitated. I can't wait to see what the next project is!!
Great episode! You never know until you try! Can't wait to see plan B for the pen challenge.
+Braxton Wirthlin Thanks man! I'm in the middle of shooting and making Plan B right now. So far so good!!
Thank you for the video. Enjoyed the music today.
New subscriber and new to casting. Love your "dunkin junk" vids. Everywhere I look anymore I see junk to dunk! Was about to head to HF for a pot but then grabbed a CAT on offerup.
Welcome to the addiction Andy! I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying the videos, and it's great to hear that you've caught the casting bug =D
Lesson learned- thanks for sharing!
+Timothy Broderick Jr. Sometimes you have something brilliant in your head, and it just doesn't pan out LOL. Ah well :)
Could you get something the same size as the tube and gently melt the figurines in cylindrical shape then mold them up centered in the blank so when you start turning it the mass of the figurines remain somewhat centered and wrap around somewhat? Maybe a wooden dowel might work for the center so you can still drill it out to the size needed.
That might work, good idea Johnny!
Thanks for sharing that!
+Steve Brown My pleasure! Thanks for checking it out :-)
have you tried turning a pen using segments of plexiglass. I thank it would be interesting
No I haven't yet, but Jimson Stuff did one with it: th-cam.com/video/yPsj3gcTmL8/w-d-xo.html Think I'm going to try doing something with cd cases sometime though
good to know. thank you.
+Vahan Muradkhanyan Thanks for watching Vahan!
A lot of men lost their lives this day.
Paint brass tubes camo and then cast them in clear?
+Allannvsj That's a good idea, might work if you can keep the blank wider than the soldiers.
nice attempt anyway.
without the figure fully encapsulated in the epoxy I don't think you could get that green toy plastic to polish up nicely anyway. still would have looked really kewl though to look at the pen and see a little green army man face in there staring back at you from inside clear resin.
+Dogwood Tales (Ray) Yeah, that's what I was envisioning, but I didn't account for how thin the blanks are. Ah well! It was fun to try anyway :-)
challenge ! I was looking at my scraps and thought of you. How about crown molding. face in different directions. might make a cool blank.
+Kinnamon100 That's a good idea! I'll have to add that to the list to try out. Thanks for the suggestion
Interesting experiment. Too bad the army men didn't show up too well--to me anyway. Bottlestoppers are a better idea. Hope you try that one soon. Would love to see the result.
+AnkleBiter Woodworks Yeah, I got all excited and just didn't think about how they would really turn out in the end, good to share the failures though too. I'll have to give a stopper a try one of these days.
great video not so much on the blank you cut those guys up pretty good....the idea with bottle stopper seams like a good idea...
+Robert Evans Yeah, I was a little disappointed in the outcome, but it's always fun to try things out :)
+Zac Higgins that is why you are the cast master......
+Robert Evans Heck yeah :-)
Have you tried just using clear cast????
Haven't cast toy soldiers in clear resin
Could you dunk sprinkles to make a pen?
I already tried, and it actually worked fairly well! =D I don't think I did a video on that one though, just posted pics on Facebook of it
Like the 🎵 music you got good taste
Tropico 5 music, LOL! XD Nice job anyway! :)))
Ever play with HDPE? Your molds would be handy with it.
+Xyienced That mold is HDPE :-) Works great! I advise against using cutting boards with the hash pattern on them though, those suck. The smooth stuff that you can buy in sheet form is wonderful though.
guess you've done this 1000 times, but I never have. Couldn't figure out what you were mixing up or what a pressure pot is - so guess I'll have to back up and find something more basic to figure out how to dunk my junk. Maybe I'll come back when it makes more sense. Thanks.
Sorry it was confusing for you. I cast them in Alumilite casting resin, pretty much the same idea as epoxy. The pressure pot is used to collapse air bubbles in the resin. You pressurize the casting, then once it's hardened up you remove it from the pressure bubble free
Use smaller army men. They come in 1/100 scale which is 10mm(guessing)?? Maybe messing around with the opacity of the resin would also help? Good luck and cool idea!
That's a great idea! I'll have to find some and try it out. My other thought was to just do a bottle stopper blank instead so I can cast it in the middle and not cut into it. That plastic was horrible looking and full of air bubbles
Glad I could help. The whole video I was wondering?? Why that size army men??
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What may work for pens is kinda morbid, but maybe decapitate the soldiers and cast the heads in a way that the faces will be just outside of the pen tube and do your best not to cut into the heads while turning. Also it might be better to use colors that are more on the translucent side.
This video is totally not what I expected it to be. Still found it interesting though
R.I.P
Green Army men toys
Have you ever thought about casting ants? Like the bugs?
+Penrod Garage Thought about it, but you have to somehow dry out the bug guts or it will fail. Haven't figured out how to do that yet... plus I'm not really a fan of bugs so it hasn't been high on my list LOL
+Zac Higgins haha
Thanks Zac. Now I glad I didn't find those in WalMart the other day. JimE
+Jim E LOL, yeah, not so awesome :-) Glad I saved you some time and money!
sweet eye wear brah
They're all the rage this year! LOL
Hey, you gave it the old college try, Zac. Nice try.
+Jerry Bell Heck yeah!! Unfortunately I didn't think this one through entirely, but it was worth it to see how the figures cast and turned anyhow.
should have done it in clear
I could have, but it still wouldn't have looked good. I think it would look better if you can fully encapsulate it. When you cut into it, it just looks like green blobs. Maybe a bottle stopper or something
Cut off the rifles and just use them.
That's a good idea!
what a wast ! :(
Worth testing out I think. Now I know.. and knowing is half the battle =D