Hello, welcome to Steve McDonald's arts and crafts.
And today I'm going to be testing if I can make a pattern
using polyurethane resin freehand. Hear my dogs
barking outside? And then fill it in with clear epoxy resin
and see if I can get a kind of like a stained-glass effect on it.
Now, I'm going to be doing it on top of this silicon mat that
is really, really shine it, because I want to have a shiny
finish afterwards.
And it does lay nice and flat boat.
Let's get on.
I'm going to mix up my PU resin.
I've got my resin mixed up.
And what I've used is some black mica powder,
pigment in this and I'm adding my pipettes and I'm going to fill
up three or four so I can speed it up.
And I'm using the pipette, because sometimes I get much
better result, because I have a tremor that I get a straighter edge.
And actually on the initial circle I do get quite a good result.
It's just that when I get to, adding more resin to it, I
start thinking about it more, and then I start wobbling all
over the place.
But I'm sure the bit of practice I just like to say
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So carried on, going around, thickening this up a little bit.
And this is really where it started to look at its best.
I should have left it alone here.
But no, I couldn't.
And I kept adding more.
And as a result, it then started to get really woggly
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So I'm doing a trying to do a yin and yang to kind of style here.
And this is where I get my tremors really starts to get bad.
It is because I'm doing this quite early on with the PU resin.
Now I do talk about this later in the video on how I could
improve this and got a lot smoother result.
And I do one where.
You can see where I get a much smoother result.
So just pop in the circles in.
And then what I will do is I will leave this probably for
about 20 minutes to cure up.
And that will be enough, because PU resin cures up as
you know really really quickly.
You don't get a very long pot time with it, but it does cure up.
You get your projects done quite quickly when you're using PU resin.
So now this is all cured up.
It's time to add the epoxy resin.
And I've put some translate, translucent, transluscent,
translucent, easy for you to say.
pigments into this.
And I'm pouring in a thin layer of that into this.
I don't want to over thicken and it because the actual PU resin
itself will be really nice and firm as its cured up.
And it will support that epoxy resin that's in there any
little bits like that.
I just took out and wiped out and cleaned up, because I want
the other color to go into this.
So just topping this up, a little bit more
with the epoxy resin.
And then I will move it around with the stick to ensure I get
it everywhere that I want it
just a little bit into that corner there.
And now, popping in the second color.
Now I do over pour a little bit with this one.
I should have been a little bit more careful and just tried to
have done a thinner layer in that original circle.
But it actually turns out okay, as you'll see.
And I definitely think that this is a method that I'm going to practice.
and try using something maybe other than a pipette I might
fill up a little bottle or something with a little hole in
and see how that goes.
And I'll report back on that later date.
So going over it with my long-necked lighter and let it cure.
It's all cured up now.
And I really like how it's come out.
It was a little bit wavy, but I think that's because I did this
as soon as it was mixed up where this one I did after it
had been sitting for about a minute, and it gave a much
smoother edge.
And it comes off really easily.
I think that's come off really well.
And let's have a look at the large one, see how that one is.
And that one's come out just as good.
I think
there is a little bit there of overflow of the actual
epoxy that I had but I can use my deburring tool to get rid of that.
So we can't see it.
There we go.
And because PU resin dries really firm and doesn't warp
like some epoxy resins.
Even though this is quite thin, it is still going to stay in shape.
I really like that.
I think you could master that a little bit more and with a
bit more practice, perhaps build this up a little bit,
have a second layer on there.
But what I think I would do going forward is I would mix up
smaller batches and maybe do the out I once that set up a
little bit, then mix another little batch and do the details
on the inside.
So you get a more smoother finish on your PU resin.
But I do like that as a technique.
I think that's worked out.
Let me know what you think of that in the comments below.
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