Hello, welcome to Steve McDonald's arts and crafts.
And today we're gonna be doing is making some little goldfish.
Now I thought I saw these mold and I thought, I've just got a buy them.
I absolutely love them.
I'm not sure if they're designed for resin or not, but who cares?
They're silicon mold.
So we will give it a go.
I'm going to be using this in here.
What I will be doing is doing three different colors of gold
fish, probably using Mica powder and some resin pigment.
And of course, there's some glitter.
So what I'm going to do first is I'm popping a little bit of translucent pigment in,
because I'm using a white mica powder.
And I find whenever using a white mica powder, if you pop a
little bit of translucent pigment in it first and mix it
all together, it really does come out lovely, really
beautiful and white, and filling this up.
This mold doesn't take an awful lot, giving it a bit of squeegee.
Oops!! Giving it a bit squeegee and then using a
wooden stick, because this won't damage the mold in any way.
To ensure that I've got it in that dorsal fin.
And I've got no bubbles because don't want any bubbles or bits miss.
Now, don't me goldfish to look like they've been bitten.
And then top in this right, the way up to the top, I will leave
these for about five minutes and then go over them with a
long neck lighter to get rid of any bubbles just in case
there's any bubbles come up.
But I did mix my resin to avoid as many bubbles as possible.
And if you want to how I do that, and then check out the
video that I'll link at the end, it really will help you.
So this is just the gold mica powder I love.
You know, I love my golds and popping that in there now as
well, and doing the same thing.
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So top in this right up again, I will I'll leave it and then
go over it with a long neck lighter.
And now I'm a glittery one.
Now I'm putting quite a lot of glitter in this.
This is a nice fine glitter.
And I've used the spoon that comes with the JDiction,
mica powders, and again, topping this up, and I'll do
the same thing with this bit squidgy widgy.
Make sure there's no air or anything left in that dorsal fin.
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So again, just finishing topping this right up.
And then what I'll do is I will probably leave them five
minutes and then cure them overnight.
Well, the little goldfish all cured up now.
So it's about seeing whether they look like goldfish or fish.
When they come out of the little molds. They are so cute.
Now look at that white one is so cute.
So is the red glittery one,
and then look at the gold one.
I love this mold.
Now, I've got a little bit of flashing on this one, but
that'll come off really easily.
And that's where, as you know, I always over pour a little bit
like it don't matter how careful I am.
I always seem to over pour.
I'll just nip in there with my trusty deburring tool.
Get that out.
And that look that red one.
Oh, I love the glittery.
Well, who wouldn't have thought for one minute that I wouldn't
have loved the glittery one?
I love my glitter.
So I'm not sure if they're gonna fit in here or not kind
of fit in there that I want to have these going up different
height, like this in here, I'm going to use the edge of the
mold because they're just the right size kind of wedge in there.
But I don't want the mold to bend out really.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to try and reinforce the
sides of that mold with some tape.
So they do stick.
And then I've got to worry about doing anything in
relation to separate pours for this.
I can do one pour if they're nicely wedged in there, and
that has kind of made it a little bit more rigid, probably rigid enough.
Well, I'm filling my pot up just about a half a centimetre with my resin.
I'm a resins a little bit cloudy, because I didn't warm
it up before I mixed it, but it won't really matter.
It will still cure lovely and clear.
But I did want to mess around with it too much, because I
want to make sure I got us fewer bubbles in it as possible.
I'm now propping up these goldfish in here.
And because I've made this pot a little bit more rigid that
has helped a great deal and then topping up my resin up
until the top of the next goldfish, and then putting the
last goldfish in, and they do tend to stay there until I have a little bit.
of a disaster, which you'll see in a second and let cure up.
Well, this is all cured up.
Now it's got a nice and hard and lovely and clear.
Now I have to confess.
We've had some really quite bad frosts here ride over the last few days.
So what I did was I put this into my curing box, which is
just a polystyrene box, and I knocked it as I put it in, and
I knocked all the little fish down, so I'm not sure what
they're going to look like.
It could be look like just a bundle of sushi, who knows?
But I love my little curing inbox, because what it does is it
allows it to keep a really good temperature in there.
Don't add any additional heat to it.
So let's go for it and get this mold out and get this casting out.
There we go.
And I do love these little goldfish molds, I think they are brilliant.
But overall, I think that's come out okay.
What you think? That glittery one is beautiful.
I do love that.
Let me know in the comments what you think I'll be really
interested to read what you have to say.
I do read all the comments I love reading through the comments.
I find them really helpful and very useful as well.
And often quite funny.
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So it's easy for you to find check out the video that's
coming up next on how to cast without a pressure pot to avoid
getting too many bubbles.
Enjoy your resin, Bye.