I've made a print that is an 9" tall figure that I've done as a comission and is supposed to be Oscar like. I'm about to fasten the print parts together but am considering filling the interior of this hollowed print with Titebond and fine sand to give it weight before I finish painting and sealing etc.
I’m curious what others have used and what they have found works well to fill interior figures with. I’m wanting it to feel solid and obviously if you were to move it around, I wouldn’t want there to be any movement from the sand and also as some parts are fairly delicate, no expansion can come from the glue setting up etc. Anyone use any liquid type filler or sand they would recommend?
I'm going to experiment but bought some Smooth-on Polyurethane 380 (1hr pot), and going to mix with bb's of various gauge. Think it should do the trick though.
I'm going to experiment but bought some Smooth-on Polyurethane 380 (1hr pot), and going to mix with bb's of various gauge. Think it should do the trick though.
I was going to say 385 but 380 doesn't shrink much and the cps is less than half of the 385. You should be ok.. If nothing else.. Fill it with Mercury.. :lol: :P
I'm going to experiment but bought some Smooth-on Polyurethane 380 (1hr pot), and going to mix with bb's of various gauge. Think it should do the trick though.
Only place I could find steel BB's on short notice was Wal Mart...:( However they are going to work great and the larger bottle is pretty heavy and the bb's there are all one size of 4.5mm dia. If anyone's curious. Think they will work great. Don't have any other prints right now similar to the one I need to do this, so I'm going to risk it and put the bb's in before hand, then chase with Polyurethane and take a big swig :)
My grandfather was a geologist and always kept brown UV or chem resistant jars of this and that. He used to always pour little balls of mercury into our hands when we would show up for holidays. Explains a lot about our last families generation as a whole..