Made me some artificial corals

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My sculpting putty is suppose to be here tommorow afternoon

I have took 6 inch white PVC pipe and ran it through my dads table saw , making only one cut

I then put it in my moms cooking oven for 3 minutes at 350 degrees

Took it out of the oven and flattened the pipe to a 12 in x 18 inch piece

I will be tracing and cutting out patterns for elk horn corals when I get off work tommorow with his jigsaw

Here are some pictures of some elk horn corals I wanna imitate

Should be very easy, once the pipe cools I will cut out my pattern and then using a heat fun make several bends and edge bends to imitate the following pictures

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Pretty cheap alternative. I will texture it with a surface mold of a real elk horn coral

Will it be as detailed as a 150 molded coral? No. But pretty close enough for a poor boy like me ( who spends way to much of his money on the fish hobby )


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Hahahaha yea

I would love to start molding from real corals. I will definatly try it again but I didn't seal my first coral good enough ( gem coral) and the silicone basically went through the whole coral so I wasn't able to extract it. It was a very expensive mistake

Depends on the coral lol

These elkhorns. You can just tell that the PVC cutouts with heat gun edging will look just like the real thing

I want to put a couple on eBay. Maybe make some money back on the 136 dollar 2 gallon kit I bought of the sculpting putty


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Ask Polygem what kind of impression material to make molds would work best with their products. I'm thinking something like a polyvinyl siloxane dental impression material might work to make the molds you want (if it's compatible with the Polygem product). Polygem can probably steer you in the right direction.
 
Ok people. Ez sculpt is a way cool product. Not messy at all like the 307 and its easy to knead or mix. No drill or Hand stirring till your hand falls off

Makes work faster

I put a 4 inch pvc pipe 22 inches long with one cut down the length in the oven for 4 minutes then flattened the PVC sheet and let cool

The following pictures shows what I did

I made a elkhorn coral tonight
Finished coating one side. Got to do the other side tomorow ImageUploadedByMonsterAquariaNetwork1399438379.489863.jpgImageUploadedByMonsterAquariaNetwork1399438391.025811.jpgImageUploadedByMonsterAquariaNetwork1399438402.495434.jpgImageUploadedByMonsterAquariaNetwork1399438414.265959.jpgImageUploadedByMonsterAquariaNetwork1399438427.087515.jpgImageUploadedByMonsterAquariaNetwork1399438440.306169.jpgImageUploadedByMonsterAquariaNetwork1399438453.288722.jpg

When I get done with the above paintin and sealing ect it will imitate this
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