No, not a toy for small children, but the result of my first attempt at using Instant Mold:
It still needs a bit of cleaning up, but it's come out quite nice- if anything, the fiddly underneath bit needs less cleaning up and fixing than the fairly plain top...
The rearmost handle didn't come out, but other than that it's nothing a bit of scraping and filing won't fix! Inevitably, the day after I did this, I was reading a blog where the author suggested making one half of the mould (with a slight curve), letting it set, and then making the other half - that way, both halves will always align perfectly, and you don't have to go through the heart-stopping terror of trying to cut your mould in half without destroying the contents; so obvious in hindsight!
That came out pretty nice. Success.
ReplyDeleteThe rearmost handle didn't come out, but other than that it's nothing a bit of scraping and filing won't fix! Inevitably, the day after I did this, I was reading a blog where the author suggested making one half of the mould (with a slight curve), letting it set, and then making the other half - that way, both halves will always align perfectly, and you don't have to go through the heart-stopping terror of trying to cut your mould in half without destroying the contents; so obvious in hindsight!
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