VHD belt buckle

[aimeekitty]

finished my resin cast belt buckle for VHD this morning. Based on this image. xposted to HCC

Comments

[missmonstermel.livejournal.com]

oohhhh that is excellent!!!!

[naveen.livejournal.com]

amazing work. i'm an eternal fan of Vampire Hunter D, so i'm hopeful to see the rest of this costume come together! (my own doris lang cosplay will be out in a few months, if not i'll wait for next year). good luck on all those scarfy bits!

[mattymorgs.livejournal.com]

How expensive or difficult is it to do custom resin casts? Do you have a particular reference site to show how it's done? As an avid tabletop gamer I've always wondered because it could open up a great world of custom models, pieces of terrain, etc. It certainly shows with your excellent example there. Looks wonderful!

[uniformgrey.livejournal.com]

WOW!

[tempest-strife.livejournal.com]

Holy Crap.

[rurouni-jedi.livejournal.com]

That is awesome! Is there a special paint you use to get the silver to look so... silvery? Like real metal?

[smileysquid.livejournal.com]

i am soo amazeddd

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

doing resin casts is actually really easy. It just LOOKS scary. I highly recommend trying it.

Doing really small sculpts for something like tabletop, though, I would imagine, be very difficult. But that's not because of the resin process, it's because you'd have to sculpt really small.

my costuming group, HCC, has a number of tutorials on resin casting etc here:
http://whatishcc.com/tutorials/

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

I spray painted it black and then used rubnbuff. EPIIIIC