Piranha Fish Tank for the Addams Family with UV Resin: Live Stream #13
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2018
- Join in with my UV Resin experiment trying to make an aquarium for the first time!
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I saw your tank when it was placed in the conservatory and it’s so well done that I thought you bought it like that. I don’t see the issues you see the fish are spot on. Just love it!
Awesome project. Ingenious fix to cover the plexiglass warping.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the build!
I have essential tremor and watching you do that was sweet as. You have no idea what shenanigans would have occurred if I tried something like that lol. So well done.
I think the fact that it warped makes it fit in better with the Adam's family decor.
Awesome job, you nailed the challenges you came across with. I love it.
SO, SO CUTE! I am obsessed with this fish tank.
Thank you!😊
You did a brilliant job of saving that lovely little thing.
Thank you Jenny! I am glad it could be saved because I'm almost out of resin! ;)
You are SO patient! I really admire that! It turned out amazing!🦴🦴🥩🦃
Thank you!! It was a fun project even though there were some bumps along the way lol
I appreciate the new camera angles. It does help with seeing how you create. The piranha tank turned out better than I could imagine!
Thank you! That is good to know... I will try to incorporate these new angles in my videos as well :)
I am sitting here holding this attempt at a mini bay window together while the wood glue dries and your voice is so soothing I fell asleep. I have been struggling with insomnia lately so I don't think it was because I wasn't interested but fatigue just won the battle! I was listening to the differences between male and female piranhas when I nodded off! I should keep that in mind, that piranhas lifestyle is capable of knocking me out! Lol I haven't slept a whole night for at least a week so it's my general fatigue that won out lol!
Their eyes are big. I think they look great..I think my witches cottage needs an aquarium with something strange in it. If not fish then a snake or other reptile or a spider! Yeah that would be creepy! You always give me great ideas!
i am so glad you were able to get some sleep! Now you will have a TH-cam playlist of piranha facts I am sure lol!
Oh my gosh i had 3 red belly Piranha years ago!!! Was so happy to see this And you did an amazing job. You impress and inspire me every time.
Next time, you can add a bit of resin to the bottom of the plant, put the plant into place, then cure it. It should help keep it in place as you add the rest of the resin in. Also, your piranhas are super cute.
I think you did an awesome job!!🐟
Everything you make is so amazing! I love how this tank came out 😍
Thank you so much Nabil!!
It is absolutely awesome!
Thank you Karen!!
Can't wait for beatle juice house. Love your work
This is so cool!!!!!!!!! Wow!! Super cute and you’re like the resin queen now!!! 💙💙 Thanks for sharing!!
Haha - I might be the queen someday... still learning for now ;) Thanks Leslie!
When painting super tiny things like this I like to use some sticky tack and a toothpick, add sticky tack to the toothpick then stick the sticky tack onto the tiny thing where you're not painting and it gives you a good handle and won't hurt your project.
Love, love it!!!!
love it so far... you do fantastic work. looking forward to also seeing more of the abandoned coffee shop.
Thank you so much! There will be more coffee shop coming up soon!
Oh wow, perfect ! Super impressive 😍😍
I am so glad you enjoyed it!
Your work always comes out terrific. Nice cover idea, it sealed the deal!
I was glad I figured something out... that would have been a lot to redo lol!
Love it Ara. Great job it's perfect !!👍😄
Thank you Karin!!
I loved it! Looks awesome.
Thank you so much Mariza!
👍Great video!!! So much inspiration! Thank you.
Thank you! It was so fun to play around and experiment with this one!
This turned out awesome! Never used uv resin. So that was crazy how it melted. I think the colors turned out great at the end.
Thank you💖 Yes that surprised me too! I think I got too confident and tried to cure too big a section at once... this causes a lot of heat and shrunk the plastic. Doing it in layers helps with that it seems!
Love the bones!
Awesome...… you have inspired me to use some resin...TKS
Awesome! Enjoy!
I like it, but if you ever decide to remake a new tank let me give you an idea. We had friends who had piranha in a fish tank. It was upsetting to me, but, they put goldfish in there to swim as food. You would see goldfish swimming around half eaten. I had no idea they could swim without back fins, but anyway, they do. Seeing as it's an Addams house, it may be a nice touch. Excuse the word nice.......LOVE THE FIX! Perfect!
I made a reptile enclosure aquarium. One of our dollar stores had some realistic lizards for sale for 10 per $1. I built the aquarium from acrylic and balsa, yes I painted the slats black first - lol. The walls are tiny pink, brown, white pebbles with egg carton sides. I used a spaghetti sauce seasoning I was given but won't use in food due to MSG for the floor bedding, looks real. I put in a stone "water feature" with strips of dried tacky glue. I added leaves, small plants and a few flowers, and a vine for the lizards. Lizards eat some flowers. I made a couple of ants out of beads & wire to climb on the walls and a couple of tarantulas I made up from flower centers. The lizards have to eat, after all. I made a lid from wood and a real strong cardboard photo frame back that has the little hanger on it. I painted it black and bent up the hanger to create a handle like real tank covers have. Under the lid I glued in aluminum foil and tacked in a small string of white lights. When I plug it in it looks so real my daughter-in-law thought it was a real lizard tank - though much smaller than a real one, I love it!
Wow that is crazy sounding! I can't even imagine a half eaten fish swimming around :o Good thing I don't plan to own my own piranhas... I couldn't do that to a little fish!! But that would add an interesting little detail. Your lizard project sounds amazing!! I love when people think my creations are real... such a compliment!
Looks great! Looking forwards to October ‘s live stream.
Thank you Gail! see you there ;)
Omg it came out so great ☺️ that frame really covered up the whole warp,, that’s awesome 👏🏽
I was shocked how well it worked... you have to flip it upside down to see the warp so yay! The piranha tank stays!
Bentley House Minis really tho,, when you panned the camera right above it I was like wow ☺️☺️ it’s beautiful
Thank you!
One of the best things about uv resin is that it doesn’t get as hot from the chemical reaction of solidification.
Just catching up on your videos...I'm loving your mistakes as much as the finished fish tank! Curved glass is very expensive and the Addams family is very wealthy, so it seems to me that they'd have a very unique fish tank. I think I could make one of these if I watch it again and write down steps so I don't mess up. You're awesome and this was seriously entertaining! LOL Thank you! (I play the harp and when I was taking lessons, years ago, my teacher told me that when I make a mistake, make it sound intentional. I try that with miniatures. If I mess up, I make it look intentional. Kind of like a cat falling off furniture. "I meant to do that" LOL)
That's a great way of looking at it Rachael!! I have called them "flopportunitues" before lol. That's awesome that you played the harp... I really wanted to as a child but it wasn't an option where I lived. Thank you!
Sugar Charm is a really great channel, but she does a lot of very sweet little things. I enjoy her stuff, but I like this sort of "darker" (but, not to me) project! My taste in dolls are bit more gothic, Sci-Fi or fantasy types. So, I love how your fish tank turned out!! It's perfect for this project! You are inspiring me a lot, even though I have dolls in 1/6 scale I may still try to figure out how to make a larger one anyway! Thanks! I'll be taking a look at your other vids! New subscriber!!
Same here... I love seeing sweet cutesy tutorials but then if I try them out mine always come out a bit darker lol. If you do make one I love to see it! Thanks for subscribing and welcome to the channel!! 💕
I think that's cool x
Ara, a great fun experiment as always (minus the fumes of course)! Love those lil bulldog-faced PC fishies, they're so cool! Did you know you can colour PC with chalk pastel or mica powders before baking? The sticky polymer holds the colour on - it's so clever :) I just bought my 1st batch of PC, so get ready for me to sculpt (badly) & burn stuff too LOL. I noticed the colours you tried in the UV resin were acrylic paint & acrylic ink. I understand that UV resin is a polyester resin & polyester rejects adhering to some other polymers e.g. epoxy glues & resins; Looks like it probably doesn't stick to acrylic polymers either. Sandrartes tints resin with both chalk pastel & alcohol ink, but I've never tried those, my experience with is limited to the concentrated colours actually made for my 2 part resin. The company I buy resin etc from here in Australia specialises in moulds, resins etc & they have lots of info on their site to learn about resins, mould making etc if it helps (like a free e-book & free e-course etc) at Aldaxstore.com.au
Thanks for the info. I will have to try with the chalk pastel next because I already have those. Thanks for the sharing the link, I am sure it will be helpful. Have fun creating with your new PC!
I know this is very late in the game, but I have aquariums, and anything bigger than a 10 gallon typically has a brace that goes in the middle across the top. It’s meant to keep the glass from bowing out when filled with water - the opposite issue you encountered, but same idea! (For future aquariums!) I also have an aquarium with a curved front glass, so you could say it’s a fancy stylized aquarium, though the frame you made really hides it well.
(I’ve had a lot of hobbies!)
That's great to know!! I am sure I will make another one sometime so I will keep that in mind!
The tank looks amazing! You’ve done a great job to cover up the warp.
I tried asking about using resin for a fish tank but the guy in the craft store seemed uncertain about it. Are there other things we could use as ‘water’?
I missed this but it is the Addams fish tank and nobody in the family looks quite normal either, which gives you lots of lattitude for how the piranah look! You did make actual piranah too while I am thinking on how I can suspend water decal fish in UV resin...maybe if I apply them to some clear packing material and cut them out?
You could use microscope slides instead on plastic/acrylic. They are easy to score and snap and sand the edges smooth.
Oh that's a great idea! Thank you!
Out of the blue, a tip: creating the piranha, just as the adam's family characteristics & physical features are exaggerated, i feel its jaw should have been highly emphasized like in a hannah-barbara cartoon, grinning eagerly for its next meal.
You're right! That would have been great!
My mom did this too (just plain resin) making “fish ponds” or bowls. Problem: open bowls of resin collect dust that just won’t get out.
Just now watching. Good job. I used an empty box a miniature from Germany came in. (Can't spell the company name)
I liked the camera the other way.
I love it! I feel like if you did do it again you could have a support bar or lid, partially open so you can pour more resin, across the top for support. I wonder if that would keep it from warping? I also feel like it's the perfect house for a slightly imperfect tank!
But, the frame worked great!
That's a great idea!
If you do another, you can put the fish on a plastic sheet, cover with resin then peel off to stand the fish in. Then you don't have to hold it, he will be on like a card of clear resin, easy to stand up
I think it looks amazing by the way, awesome job, especially the fish, you did a great job!!!!!
That's a great idea! I will def have to remember that because I know I will be making them in the future again ;)
I used scrap plastic from a plastic box that held donuts
Put a 3 X 5 card on your glass and bake your skulpey on the card. It never sticks and the card never burns for the time clay needs to bake.
Thank you for the tip!
I'm also pretty sure black water is not good for fish, so glad yours has nice clean water!
So true lol!
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Good experiment, I learned a lot about resin. Brilliant save on the aquarium, the finished project looks wonderful! I wonder, if you had framed the top of the aquarium with the wood from the beginning ... would it have kept the walls from warping? I am watching this in May 2020, by the way. I suffer from asthma, so have never tried to work with it, so it was fun to vicariously play with you. :)
I have friends who have a large piranha aquarium (their piranhas are big) and they feed them chicken. They fed them while we were visiting, so if you do another one of these tanks you could make the piranhas larger and have drumsticks, thighs, or a raw chicken next to the aquarium. Just thought I would share the little I know about these fish from the Amazon.
How interesting! Thank you for sharing that insight!! That had to be crazy to watch😮
@@BentleyHouseMinis ~~ It was, I was stunned by the speed with which they devoured the flesh off the bones! I can definitely say that piranhas are not my kind of fish. Just thinking of how they attacked that chicken ... what if by mistake someone sticks its finger in the water??? No ... definitely not a fan of the species!!! I love beautiful, colorful, fluorescent fish. 🌅
Hi! Watching from southeast Georgia, USA. Love your minis! This is a great project. What kind of glue did you use to glue the wood pieces and plexiglass?
Thank you so much Gail! Hi from North Texas :) I just used Aleenes Tacky Glue and it worked rather well.
I ended up not liking the glue fabric to cardboard method so I stapled cardboard then sewed the fabric on it worked but I wouldn’t recommend it because it hurts the fingers ouch so take breaks between stitching.
Good night and good morning I’m going to sleep.
If you print the image of size you want you can dome it with the U-verse resin till desired effect. Same with plants etc be sure to add an anchor so that you can be sure they stay upright. I usually attach to a plant or rock. Uv is tooooo expensive for a project like this epoxy resin in layers is a better choice, also no heat. Also that little light is not giving a full cure you need a 36 watt or a day in the sun
Thank you for the tips! I will always take any advice I can get for successful resin results ;)
The toothpick absorbed the ink.
You could try using glass real glass for your aquarium
Ara have you used the acrylic water? I'm going to give that a try for my toilets, sinks ect. Just wondering if you have any comments on how it works, or how to use it?
I haven't used that yet. If you do please let me know what you think!
If you get a lot of bubbles in a project blow thru a straw to pop them.
Thanks for the advice I will try that next time :)
GREAT first attempt! I love the fish too! HEY! I know this is over 2 years later, but does anyone know how many LED lights does her UV light have? How "strong" does it have to be to cure UV resin?
Thank you! I don't remember how many it is BUT I did find that even after the initial cure I had to put the items out in the sun to cure completely. So even if the lights you have freezes it in place the sun will take care of the rest ;)
I mix ink and resin all the time you have to mix first.
I hope that didn't come off sounding rude. It wasn't supposed to. If it did I'm sorry. I just re-read it and it sounded a bit snide in my head. I really didn't text it with any kind of attitude or tone. Lol.
Do you have a video on making a waterfall using resein?
😹😹LoL sorry I missed this one gave me a surprise when you said hi to me but was mixed up as the other Angela has a H at the start of her surname too 😹😹
Ha! That's hilarious! I am sure that was a bit surprising!
Bentley House Minis ❤️😹😹Yep it sure was lol good fish tank love it🤗
Hi Ara, So sorry I missed the livestream, I was so looking forward to it & then I got muddled up with the days; I got used to being a full day ahead of you guys when you do a nighttime stream & my brain just didn't cope with your stream changing to daytime & also on a different day LOL. I was too tired & stupid to just count the hours it had moved! ha ha. Now I know I'm going to regret typing this while still watching, but you know piranhas are a small fish, but a HUGE small fish, right? 20-35cm - so, even bigger than that ruler in front of you (8"-15" in the ancient Imperial language the rest of the world stopped using over 50yrs ago). That fish tank is going to get cosy :)
Yeah I was sad to move the day because so many people had gotten used to Wednesday but Tuesday is what worked for my new schedule :/ I hope you can make it to the next one! Yeah... I didn't really do my research on piranhas. I just googled a picture for reference and asked those in the live stream their size and went with it ;) Also I think my tank is too small as well. I made it small on purpose to make sure I had enough resin to fill it up!! I didn't even consider the size of the fish going in. Luckily the Addamses only have 2 piranhas!
Ink and resin will not work together at all, but it is possible to get some colors made for resin
Oh and it turned out great
Thanks Daniela! Yes I have learned that resin is rather picky...
Bentley House Minis they are
How about using some crushed moss powder
can u make shot tutorial for piranha fish ty
I make the piranha fish during the live stream so if you can find that moment on the video you can see each step that I do. Thanks for watching!
Hairdryer or bubbles
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12.99 for rocks, it looks like kitty litter box 🤔🤦♀️
Dot your eyes and cross your bones 😉🐟☠️
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Maybe trying it out completely before you tape it.