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Can't wait to hear the results ! Would be really useful for some special old blood heads for leaders !

 

Oh and also I would like your opinion after you complete some of your tests :
I am thinking of making an Iron Hands army at some point. Not really into 40k. spear and axe will always be the thing for me. Not tanks but still, Iron Hands is a project that I might consider.
It is also an expensive one as hell. So for example, I hope that I can make the "hand" symbol for the shoulders via this way. Looking forward to your opinion !

 

Oh no no I m bad at that. I intend to buy the blister once - for a unit of 10 for example and multiply it That's why I wanna see how it worked for ya !

 

Looks nice. I seen your post in the afternoon and I went to buy some Oyumaru haha
Tomorrow I'll try with millyput

 

Thank @Aginor, my Iron Hands army might actually happen at some point judging by the test results

 

Agreed, the casting quality is really good. I am curious to see how reusable it is?

It certainly looks good enough for small or even larger parts, especially when the individual cast pieces will be lost in the group/regiment/horde of other models surrounding them. Or of course as extra bling on other models!

 

I'm going to be re making a mould I made with it tomorrow so I'll let you know if anything changes on its second use but I'm assuming it will be very reusable

 

Update - I've chucked the stuff back into hot water several times over and it's pretty much the same every time - I will say you're looking for it to be stringy when you try pull - that should give you a good indication of when it's ready - also if it starts sticking to your pot don't worry because you can reclaim it later when you push more of the stuff back into itself . So I'd recommend allocating yourself a specific pot to use or you may loose bits here and there along the way. Finally I will say you have a limited time from when you boil the water to how easy the stuff will absorb the heat, I made a mistake and wanted to re-do the blue stuff but the water had cooled a little (this will vary with ur volume of water etc so you may find yourself that you can chuck it back in for a do over if necessary)

 

While we are on the subject I thought I'd experiment with the stuff since the video I watched and I think everyone watched about the stuff the guy says it didn't stick to glass plastics etc - so I tried using a two part epoxy resin from pound land on it - the cheap stuff people use for water effects - the good news is it dries really quickly and doesn't stick to the blue stuff. Might be a usefull way of making water features like spouting water from a pond etc. I'd pre mix it fast somewhere though I didn't mix it well enough and the bits that remain one part of the epoxy are still sticky - I haven't tried In a mould I should add just on a flat piece of the bluestuff after it had been heated and flattened.