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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote2013-02-05 10:59 pm
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Feeling crafty

With significant progress made on my two trades, I've begun work on the Ship in a Bottle.

By which I mean I've melted exactly nine crayons in the base of the bottle. See, I'm using a bottle like this - I'd go so far as to say it's exactly that type of bottle except it's more than three-and-a-quarter inches tall - and I wanted to have a base in the bottom of it to raise the characters up a bit. Gives 'em a bit more room, see. And while the crayons initially looked like they'd be the perfect solution, well. Completely drying left something of a sinkhole in the middle of wax, which isn't exactly a solid place for two polymer clay characters to be standing, let alone in close proximity to one another.

My next plans are either MORE WAX or more polymer clay, but if anyone has a suggestion for how I can get the wax to not do that sinkhole thing instead I'd love to hear it.
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Re: Off the Latest Things page

[personal profile] needled_ink_1975 2013-02-06 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, and your idea re: filling in the dent will be way easier than getting the wax out. There's just gotta be a bit of poking done to create 'anchor points' to keep the epoxy from separating.

–Nici