Mold-making and casting progress. For my first time making a two part mold it turned out ok I guess. A bunch of detail was lost when the silicone got stuck in the carved out detail work on the guard, which is unfortunate. At least it’s ok on the other side. Also, because I’m dumb, I didn’t pour through the highest point, so part of the guard is missing, but I can add that back on with apoxie sculpt I guess. The first couple of tries the mold leaked, so I had a lot of slush to clean up, but I realized I didn’t quite have the mold together properly, so hopefully I’ve fixed it for my latest cast.

I did a lot of dremeling to get the excess off (I don’t recommend it. Smells horrible and makes a lot of really bad for you dust).

Unfortunately, I didn’t anticipate quite how much light would get stopped by the pigment in the resin (neon green UV powder!), so even with an EXTREMELY bright 1 watt LED it barely lights up. 🙁

For my next cast I’m also adding a string of LEDs through the rest of the dagger to get it to light up uniformly (I hope).

The big problem is the fact that I’m moving to LA for college on monday and I’m running out of time extremely quickly, and resin can only cure so fast :/