Mini Pinball Machine and Amazing Mold Putty...by Lonnie Sexton

Hello everyone! Lonnie here with another 1:10 scale minature project I've been working on - and Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Casting Resin helped make this come to life.

    

    

 This Assassin’s Creed theme Pinball machine was made from Basswood, Styrene, Brass and Plexi-Glass. The flipper arm rockers were made using Amazing Mold Putty and Casting Resin. I created design templates with artwork from UBI soft and deviant artist William Schoof.

Project

Cut parts; Basswood and Plexiglass

Clamped for Assembly

Assembled

Playing board rim outline

Assembly Progress

Design Templates Adobe Ill.CS5: Art work from UbiSoft and Deviant Artist William Schoof.

Playing board outline templates, Assembly progress.

Playing Board mini targets

    

    

    

Primary - Rocker Arms

I created the primary out of an ABS plastic servo arm, cut to shape. These rocker arms will attach to the bottom side of the flippers. The photo's shown below are out of sequence with the build photo's above. The arms were created previous to adding the graphics to the play board.

Parts/Tools:

Amazing Mold Putty - Link

Amazing Casting Resin - Link

Mixing Cup - Link

Mixing Stick – Link

Mold Release -

Poster Board

Bottom side Amazing Casting Resin rocker arms

Return spring locations

Topside flippers connected to rocker arms.

Flipper action

Finished!

Thanks for visiting!

Please come back and join us for more exciting projects, inspiration and tutorials.

~ LC Sexton

.................................

__________________________________________

Use this COUPON to shop at the Amazing Mold Putty

website HERE and receive 25% OFF your purchase.

Please use coupon code " summerhaus " {no quotations}.

Coupon expires June 30, 2013.

__________________________________________

.................................

Want to SOCIALize? Please follow Amazing Crafting Products on

Twitter @AmazingCrafting and on Pinterest HERE -or- join us on our Facebook page.

Summer Treats... AMAZING Altered Paperclip Tutorial by Isabel Villarreal

Who doesn't like a cool tasty summer treat?

These delicious altered paperclips hold your papers and even work as bookmarks. Attach a magnet to the back and use them to hold your fridge pics or display your little artist's latest masterpiece. Hi, this is Isabel and I'd love to show you how to make these cool clips in a few easy steps with Amazing Crafting Products.

     

My goal was to make something to celebrate the bright sunny days of summer and I wanted to cast something cute and bright since I plan to use these clips for EVERYTHING and I'll be looking at them a lot. These cute erasers came in a set of various desserts, but these two were my favorites. First, I coated the eraser with Mold Release (Vaseline also works) and set it aside while I prepared the Amazing Mold Putty, using equal parts of "A" & "B" and mixing them until I got an even yellow color. Be sure to use an amount that is about twice the size of the object you're molding. Once the mold putty was mixed, I pressed the eraser into the center. The eraser is 3 dimensional and I wanted the back to be flat so I pressed it only halfway into the mold putty.

Amazing Mold Putty sets in about 10 minutes so while it was setting I repeated the steps above for the second eraser. Once I had the 2 completed molds I mixed some Amazing Casting Resin using equal parts "A" & "B", then stirring slowly. The mixture will look milky at first, so keep stirring until it's clear. This happens pretty quickly, so keep an eye on it as you stir. Pour the resin into the molds. I made enough to fill both molds at the same time. 

Once the pieces were cast I jazzed them up with some bright summer colors and added some details. I tried a few different ways to paint them, but found that for this purpose markers worked best. Of course, you can use acrylics and other types of paint to get the effect you want. The painted pieces were then lightly coated with clear enamel spray paint and left to dry for about 30 minutes.

While the enamel dried I worked on the background. Brightly colored card stock and a large paper punch made it quick and easy. I used Mod Podge to layer and seal the paper shapes before coating them with a thin layer of Amazing Clear Cast Resin. The Clear Cast resin will give the paper some thickness and make a nice base to support the cast pieces. Pour the Clear Cast resin onto the center of the paper background and spread it toward the edges with a wooden stick or a throw-away brush.

After an hour I placed my cast pieces on the coated paper and once again coated the entire thing in another layer of Amazing Clear Cast Resin, leaving it to dry overnight.

Attach the finished pieces onto super jumbo paper clips using a hot glue gun or 2 part epoxy. To use on your fridge just attach a small round magnet to the back of the resin piece and use the paper clip to hold your treasures. Ice cream treats and long lazy summer days just go together perfectly and these clips really capture the best part of the summer season. Make these clips personal by casting items that remind you of your favorite things.

What part of the summer season

will your altered clips celebrate???

I'd love to see what you create - please share your creations

on the Amazing Mold Putty Facebook page!

~ Isabel Villarreal

.................................

__________________________________________

Use this COUPON to shop at the Amazing Mold Putty

website HERE and receive 25% OFF your purchase.

Please use coupon code " summerhaus " {no quotations}.

Coupon expires June 30, 2013.

__________________________________________

.................................

Want to SOCIALize? Please follow Amazing Crafting Products on

Twitter @AmazingCrafting and on Pinterest HERE -or- join us on our Facebook page.

Childhood Memories Kept Alive... AMAZING Inspiration from Michelle Galpern

My inspiration comes from many happy memories from my childhood. My father is a watchmaker and jeweler and his shop was in our home! It was never quiet, all day and all night I would hear the tick-tock and chimes of the dozens of old clocks he would be working on. It was a beautiful noise that was always remained in the background. If I slept over at a friend’s house it was so quiet that I couldn't sleep. Over the years my dad would give me clocks and their beautiful wind up keys. He had a box of keys that were so much fun to dig through and he would give me the ones that didn't have a match to a clock. My mantle is covered in clocks from my dad and peppered with his old keys. 

When my daughter started her bakery I knew I wanted to mold the antique keys as accents in sugar for unique cakes. They make great decorations for men’s cakes, Victorian and Steampunk cakes. Today we teach cake decorating and the key mold is one of our student favorite molds to make. It is wonderful to see my childhood memory living on and bringing another generation the happiness I remember. 

What objects from your childhood would you mold???

Until next time, Keep life sweet!   ~ Michelle Galpern

Simi Cakes & Confections

.................................

__________________________________________

Use this COUPON to shop at the Amazing Mold Putty

website HERE and receive 25% OFF your purchase.

Please use coupon code " summerhaus " {no quotations}.

Coupon expires June 30, 2013.

__________________________________________

.................................

Don't forget to subscribe to our blog via e-mail on the right side bar.

Twitter at AmazingCrafting | Facebook at AmazingMoldPutty | YouTube at AmazingMoldPutty