Some advice from someone experienced with moldmaking and casting 1. The whole reason you make two part molds is to key them, therefore minimizing the seamlines. So I would suggest you make sure to key your molds. That also includes building the clay bed up to where it goes all around *exactly* where you want the seamline to be. So in the case of hands for example, it would be around the widest part of the hand, including in between fingers, exactly halfway up their width. 2. Especially if you aren't using a pressure pot, you can't really get away with just one pour tab, especially if you have detail like the fingers. You need vents. The vents don't have to be wide at all but they do need to connect every area likely to get bubbles to the surface. That will be any overhang, areas that are higher up than where your pour tab connects, and the tips of any small detail 3. Resin bubbling and not curing 9 times out of 10 means it wasn't mixed well enough. If you're doing it by hand, that's generally a few minutes of mixing. A popsicle stick isn't the best tool for it, because of the rounded tip: it doesn't get in the corners well enough. Another thing is, you may have added too much dye. Dye will actually inhibit curing, and resin dyes are made to be extremely potent, so you always want to use the absolute minimum that you need to get the color you want. Bubbles can also be a moisture issue in the dye. 4. Another thing re dye, it will always sink to the bottom to some degree, as well as show up differently on the surface versus the inside of the object. That's why doll companies always warn you that sanding seams off of darker skin dolls will leave marks. Obviously dye type and quality as well as curing time and method change how bad that effect is. 5. Pouring more resin on top of partly cured resin isn't the best idea. It can be done fairly okay with slow setting resins, but the shorter the working time, the worse it will turn out. That's because resin heats up as it sets. And the faster the curing time, the more violent the chemical reaction, thus reaching higher temperatures faster. The resin that's already setting is likely to cook the fresh stuff. Or your molds, if you introduce something like water and make the whole reaction go completely haywire.

For a beginner pourer this isn't that bad tbh, I'm quite impressed! A tip I can give is to cast a mould vertically. This will let you get into the smaller areas first with a syringe, toothpick, what-have-you and then pour into the larger areas. The type of resin might be an issue. The quicker cast can't get rid of the bubbles fast enough before it has hardened. There are some affordable 2 part resins on Amazon that take 24-48 hours to completely harden, but I've noticed they cure in as little as 4 hours with complete cure after 6-8 for smaller pieces like these. I hope this helps you on your resin journey! ♥️🥰

This is a fascinating process to watch!

Thanks for including us in the process! It's definitely interesting to watch. I hope the molds were detailed enough that the loss of your masters isn't too catastrophic

You may have used too much dye and it inhibited the curing. I think some things say to only use like 2% the amount of the resin is the max amount of dye to add. But, the darker tips on the hand looked pretty cool :3 Also, you may need to angle your molds so they are more vertical, the air will flow out better. But I’m glad they at least mostly worked :D

great video!

They turned out pretty good Lomi. My experience with the resin dyes is that you can't use very much or it will impede curing making very dark colors a hassle. This seems to be the case with your pieces with the bubbling and the marble effect as the dye is not evenly distributed in the over all solution . Hope this is a help Thanks I enjoyed the video

Hey Lomi! I'm trying to see your msd sized breaches that you resently released onto your website.. I'm not sure if you are going to do a tutorial, so could you give me a quick over view of how to sew them together? I'm mainly stuck on the front sections and the larger pockets Thanks Lomi!!

Hi I'm new to this,,why do you have to dye it lol