Hi Phillip, You didn't mention the most important thing. Always wear a mask throughout the process and work in a well-ventilated place. When the resin powder enters your lungs, it's forever. There is no turning back and sooner or later, you will have serious health problems with that. Only masks capable of filtering particles smaller than 0.3 microns are useful (FFP2 standard in Europe, N95 in the USA and KN95 in China). The bubbles can be easily eliminated with a very brief passage of a small kitchen torch to avoid burning the rubber molds. The resin usually turns yellow when it has poor quality and has no UV protection. UV light hits the resin and degrades the epoxy polymers. I hope this has helped and always wear a f#%&ing mask when sanding resin. Regards!
Hi Pedro, yes, I totally screwed up and did a lot of this without a mask, so yep, masks on people! Let's hope lots of fresh air will help keep me alive until I'm at least 90 😂🙈 The torch helps and usually got most of the bubbles out, but I felt without it the cubes looked a little more realistic with a few in there. Thanks for the heads up, and yes, masks masks masks, which we're all pretty used to now 👌🏻
All resins will turn yellow or get a yellowing/amber tint. The more it's in sunlight it will turn faster.. I been trying to find one that doesn't but no luck. I use polygel or clear acrylic for small clear pieces. So far no yellowing. I am doing more research on this subject & trying to find a solution for this. In the mean time I warn people about the yellowing. I have noticed that a base layer of color helps not to notice the yellowing.
Hello. I have a few questions if you don't mind me asking. First one- I would like to do a bigger piece of fake ice. (To be more precise - I would like to make helmet of Jotun Loki from what if for cosplay/costume) Have you ever tried doing something bigger with this technique? Also- how heavy is the material and finished product? Because it shouldn't be too heavy so I can wear it comfortable for a long period of time. I would also appreciate, if you have any idea how to do custom form. I'm sorry if I'm asking on something that's already answered in the video. (Also- please excuse any mistakes I made in this comment. English is my second language.)
Thank You! I really appreciate that, this was a long haul one, took me a long time to perfect, so I thought it would be good to share the details with you guys!
Hey Philip, I'm thinking about making some cubes for my drinks photography work. I've spent quite a lot of cash on high quality fake ice cubes and would like to learn to make my own. I'm wondering, have you tried cleaning up the surface by using heat rather than sand paper? I know you can clean up perspex edges with a blow torch and was wondering if a heat gun might work on the resin to sort of melt the surface and level out any file marks. Have you ever tried this?
HI Charlie, to be honest, no, I haven't used heat. The cubes are so perfect after I polish them up that there is no need to. This might work though and could be a workaround but not sure. The way I've shown here is tried and tested after months of work and it really looks the part. I'm worried about what the heat could do to an already treated piece of resin.
This is what I have been looking for ... didn't want to spend 40+ euros, dollars whatever plus delivery and didn't want cheap products either. Thank you for taking the time to do this and for sharing. Let's keep in touch, I want get invited to your 90th birthday party.
I'm glad you found it! It takes a bit of work but looks great when finished! Yes, 40 euros plus that again for delivery!! 50 more years and we're having a party!!
Thanks for the tips and for showing you the process, with a little time you can have some good ice, which is great for when the summer comes and you want that shot with ice that you don't have to worry about melting. and gives that nice cool refreshing look. Handshake
Hey there. This is great. The cubes i cast all came from the same batch. And strangely from one silicone tray they came out yellow and the others didn’t. Maybe it has something to do with the makeup of the ice tray
It's odd isn't it, I can't get to the bottom of it. I've had some come out crystal clear and some yellow, it's really frustrating. Fun though, I love this kind of stuff!
Ok I try make my own ice cubes, and when I trying to shape them I scratched them up pretty bad I’m having a hard time getting the scratches out. Can you give me some tips on getting it shaped them?
Sure, this was pretty much all I do step by step. IF you do scratch them up with a little too gritty sandpaper, go back to the file, file it down, then go back to the sandpaper and work your way up to a super fine grit, then polish with paste.
I actually used art resin, specially for these types of projects, however, using the same method, and trying to keep it in the dark, I had the same batch keep clean and then a second batch go yellow, I can't get my head around it. So many different ideas as what happened, and it's not the first time, ehh.
@@PhillipSkraba Yes, light can do that to resin and plastic but for sure exist other kind of resin ($$$) that can manage the yellow thing. Need to check it. Thanks 🙌🏻
@@PhillipSkraba I look around and you have one that the manufacture says that it's up to 10 years without yellowish... But also you can add UV additive for be more strong with UV light (sun) and resist more... But sooner or later it will be yellow. Well... 10 years is okay, I guess. Cheers
The problem I'm finding is that this happens not every time, and with the same batch, and it happens when I take it out of the ice cube tray after curing. It's just the weirdest thing!
@@PhillipSkraba thanks man, because I bought some fake ice cubes, but it was pretty expensive bro. I'll try later your way. Have a great day, keep up the great work you're doing man 💪💪💪🎬🎥
I have so many fake ice cubes it's crazy. I found the best ones, my favourite ones, are the ones I made myself. The Trengove Ice cubes, the fake Chinese ones, I see them everywhere so I can tell in a second they're fake, I like photography, adverts, films where I'm immersed, if I notice any technical aspect, the magic is gone, much like with fake ice cubes. Thank for your support, it really means a lot to me!
@@PhillipSkraba I know what you mean bro a have some Chinese and it's obvious they are fake, but I'll try your way soon. Thanks to you for the amazing content and nice ideas. Have a great weekend man💪
