right so here we are today i'm going to be putting some protective bases on a couple of skulls and
we've got a template already cut out there i'm just showing you a piece of eva foam which you
could also use with some glue but we're going to be using this sticky felt so you just cut out your
shapes to fit whatever you're gonna put the felt on and then you just take away the backing and
stick that on the base of your item and in this case of course you've got the skulls so
just iron up my uh template there so it might be boys to cut out a template for your object
if you're doing lots of casts so that'll save a bit of time i actually wrote on the template
uh which way it's supposed to go up but i just checked because i haven't used it for a while
so just use a felt-tip pen or whatever type of pen just to draw around a template so obviously
that'll guide you to where you want to cut the shape out i'm actually using one of those um
what you call it um watercolor pens so it's kind of got a brush and a pen it's just like lying
around and did the job um and i think a lot of i think they're popular amongst anime and manga
artists i think that's what i'm born for like try me hand manga so let's just come through
the letter box there if you might have heard a bit of a bang it's noisy here today there's
some road works going on outside as well and i just then just had to redo this audio because
for some reason um it kind of getting uh it was fuzzy in places and so it's one of those
days gremlins in the machine so anyway as you can see we just uh drew around the template and we're
cutting out two shapes there because we've got two skulls so we've got two bases and uh
we'll just take the backing away when we've cut the pieces out and stick them onto the bases of
the skull this is a straightforward thing but just showing some people
what you can do if you're thinking how to put any how to put a protective base on the bottom of your
ornament to stop scratches to stop scratching on your furniture or damage to your furniture
around the house if you're going to be putting concrete ornaments inside
or any ornament that is made of whatever that you might make even resin um casts
so just sticking those uh pieces in place in this video i actually did count some more pieces a
couple of circles to put on the back end of the skull the kind of heel end if you like
you'll see um what i do when we get to that part of the video but you don't really need to do that
i'll probably have to make another template so it covers more of the surface area of the base
of this particular item which of course is the skull
these skulls of course as you can see they've got like a simulated uh a fake candle thing on the top
so which is part of the mold of course uh or cast and um
it's designed to like use those that fits the um electronic candles in place so using like
electronic candles as i say for them i tend to use those they look pretty good as well but you can
also put real candle like the tea light candles in these skulls as well so anyway as you see there
i'm just got like a cup that was in a cupboard just to measure out that back end of the skull
and we could just stick an extra bit of felt um on top of the existing felt that we just put in
place just to add a little bit more protection towards the end of that skull at the heel end
did i say these two skulls are going to a friend
so um it's her birthday soon so they vote they've already been shipped off got shipped off earlier
today so courier picked them up and they're on their way so hopefully she'll be happy with these
a pair of skulls so we have two circles just sticking those on the back part underneath
on the base of the skull just testing them there on the work surface and they felt good
and no scratching to the work surface with those protective felt bases in place
so yeah that's a straight and he's a straightforward and easy
job um but here's the video anyway there is actually another video on the channel where
like it was done a couple of years ago where there was other items we put felt bases on as well
so there's the skulls with the tea lights in and that's it job done so anyway i hope you enjoyed
the video hope it comes in helpful for some and uh thanks for watching and we'll see you soon
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