They cast!

These are the natural objects that I wanted to cast for my class. Upon taking them in I was initially told they just won't work. Mind you I had two small containers with various insects and other things in them. One look and the lovely lady at Len Rose said, probably no chance. But she took them to the caster and 30 seconds later she said "yep, no problem". Of course there was a chance of them not working out at all, but I was so desperate to see if they would. And it's only the cost of the spru fee if they didn't which isn't so bad.

Half the fish didn't turn out. Most probably because it was really thin, but there's still a large chance it still could have. Must take more fish in. The way this section of the fish has turned out looks great and sort of horror-ish. Very skeletal, probably because of the fish decaying a little and it being pressed into molds made from silpression over and over. Some of the scales were coming off and it was getting rather hagged before I took it in. Sprayed them all with a few coats of hairspray to seal them on the street before I went in.

The cast has captured the fish' mouth and bones and fins it's so detailed. Even most of the scales have shown up, though they just look scruffy at first rather than scales.

One yabbie didn't turn out, it was only really a chunk of the body in silver. Didn't keep that one. Now that I think about it I should've as I could've just melted down the silver again. oh well.

The bellow yabbie looks fantastic! Parts of the tail haven't formed but have created an old decaying veiny leaf sort of texture, which many things like leaves, do when they're cast and too thin. I like it. The claws have a bit of erosion on them as well most likely from the yabbie not burning out entirely well. I dont care, it's in all meanings of the word awesome.

ALL of the beetle turned out I was so pleased! And so very well. It is quite a heavy lump of silver. I think it is because of the thickness of the legs and the all round..roundness of the beetle that made it an easy cast. The burning out of the beetle was the main thing I was worried about it not working. Still very pleased! And so very cheap. $4 casting fee and about $3 of sterling silver. So cheap!

Caught every detail. Of the grooves in the outer shell, the insects mouth and eyes, tiny spikes on it's legs.