Im making a board for my little boy, some of you who have joined and read my other thread made some suggestions on how to make his board a little different. I’m mad on the idea for adding lego men into the foam befor laming it, but how would i inset them with without leaving air pockets?
For example: i have a couple of starwars jedi’s, i want to pose them fighting, but there will be little pockets of air between their arms and ribs, and in their hoods and neck areas ect… could i use slow cook resin mix and set them into the foam before i laminate it, maybe use a clear silicone glue or what?
you could try pre-setting them in a mold (when I was a little kid we used to do stuff like that in casting resin but it was usually bugs, ha ha) and then use a big forstner bit to make a round, flat bottomed hole in the foam…
Or maybe just take a digital picture of them and print it out on rice paper.
I would mix resin a bit slow, and dunk the figures a few times to get them good and coated, then drop them into a small mold to cast them. Then grind it into a cube, and but the little cube out of the blank. This way you can get them in the position you want and the pre coating should keep bubbles out of their joints and hoods. I’m assuming you’ll only be doing a couple. You could even paint the back side of the cast to be a background color.
Howzit brumstar, Before trying to set them ino the foam and glassing over them I would test to see how the plasticis going to react to the resin since resin can melt some plastics. Just had a thought about it. Aloha,Kokua
Use UV stable clear thin casting resin - the type you do table tops with shells, coins, etc… in - to set the characters, shape the result into a puck then set it in a thinner point of the board towards the nose where they’ll be exposed bottom and topside. Glass it lightly and put a high polish on it.
Bonus points if you bed the puck in a mix with glow-in-the-dark powder so it shows off the characters at night.
The title of this tread has to get some kind of Sways award at the end of the year? ‘How do you insert lego men into the foam’. Gold!
The mallet method sounds most fun but Ace should be commended for suggesting a little more finesse.
Threads like these aren’t doing anything for our public image of a bunch of excentric surfboard weirdos. Shaping/glassing in underpants, hydrofoil boogie boards, nude pictures of the queen, paper mashe surfboards, smashing legomen into surfboards, whats next?
Holy crap, I’m catching this a tad late…fricking classic. I say melt the jedi in the microwave and turn it into a chunk of crap. Maybe melt 3 or4 of them and call it a weird sexual position, or art? Jusrt shove it into the foam and call it a day.
guys i think he is wanting them to be in the foam like standing up and actually facing each other so you cant just pound them in youd have to have them molded into a puck like others have said, i can see that turning out really neat if the plastic lego is made from doesnt melt
guys i think he is wanting them to be in the foam like standing up and actually facing each other so you cant just pound them in youd have to have them molded into a puck like others have said, i can see that turning out really neat if the plastic lego is made from doesnt melt
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I hope not,,,,,
I can just imagine a light sabre in the kids eye,,,, that would suck
