Resin Gemmaking Tutorial - Part 1

I've revamped my resin casting tutorial adding in all the stuff I've learned in the past few years. (And you get to hear my voice now! Such as it is.) Sorry for the crappy audio quality. (And for sounding like a sloppy-drunk robot reading from a cue-card.)

You can find my prop and armormaking blog here:
http://proplady.livejournal.com/

My online cosplay gallery here:
http://www.amethyst-angel.com/cosplay.html

And my online armormaking tutorial here;
http://amethyst-angel.com/armormaking.html

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• cosplay
• resin
• gems
• jewels
• anime

[eternal8song]

this is extremely helpful. i'm making a costume for fai d fluorite from tsubasa, and i couldn't figure out how in the hell to make the gems on the staff, but this will probably work. one question, however. do you think that i could somehow manage to cast that giant crystal in the middle of his staff from resin, or should i find some other way of doing it?

[theproplady]

It would be tough if you wanted to make a gem that you could see all the way through since you'd have to build a mold that would divide into two parts. (Your better option might be to make two molds that fit together back to back and attach shiny mirror backings to both gems in the middle. )

[theproplady]

Oh, and for the Fai staff I made, I just used glass stones that I had bought at the local craft store. (The ones used for putting into crystal vases and such.) The iridescent ones worked very well for the small gems on Fai's staff.

[NabilT]

Oh sorry, my English isn't good, so i guess i didn't notice that part of the narration :$

[theproplady]

No problem. Just let me know if you have any more questions about anything!

[NabilT]

Hi, nice video, thanks for the uploading, but... when u are applying tape to the inside of the cardboard mold, couldn't u just cover the flat cardboard with tape (or even contact) before u cut it? or it may give a different result?

[theproplady]

I thought I explained that. (The tape will wrinkle if you apply it to something and then bend it. That's why you can only apply the tape to a surface after it's been bent. ) I may have to revise the narration of this video to make some things clearer...

[chibikyo7]

I'm going to try to use this tutorial to make Princess Garnet's (FF9) necklace. Hopefully it works out.

[Kurururules489]

I am making a drill pendent for a gurren lagann cosplay and I was wondering how I would go about making the mold. The drill is cone shaped and has a inner line that makes a spiral. If you can help me I will appreciate it.

[JuiceBoXaniZer]

I was wondering if it would be possible to make a gem with a premade gem already placed in the mold...if that makes sense. So if I were to use resin to make the eyes (for Fran from Reborn!'s frog hat) I'd do something like make the blue (iris) gem, then put it into a mold & pour the clear solution, or would the blue end up melting and/or causing troubles?

[dinamet7]

This is so helpful and you're really easy to understand in your narration. Thanks for putting this up! :)

[ChristalFir3]

I love how you sound like Washu from Tenchi Muyo!

[animeluvsinger]

how did you color the resin?

[emeraldline]

lol the intro made me laugh

[RedIV]

I really good alternative to taping the mold to keep the resin from sticking is to spray the mold with ceramic paint. It's way easier than taping, and it preserves the details of the mold a lot better. You can buy ceramic paint at any automotive store like O'Reilly.