Greetings all, I've been really busy, but somehow my OCD found a focus and on Friday and Saturday I ended up making yet another prop to go with my costume (as if I don't have enough already???) for the Renaissance Festival. I wanted to add some additional weapons and tools, but things that would be plastic and thus safer (and lighter!) than real metal. This is something of a montage, at top you see the piece still in the mold. I made it so that what should be a 2-piece mold as only one piece: cast half of the dagger, wait until it sets, de-mold and pour the other half, as it's almost finished hardening, pour a small amount of the resin on top of the current half, and take the previous half and lay it on top. Result? two mirror-image pieces from only half of a mold! I wasn't sure if it would work, but I'm kinda pleased with the result. The middle shot shows the two halves after they were joined, and the bottom is what it ended up looking like after some grinding/filing/sanding/ and a heck of alot of painting. There are some superb metallic-finish acrylics that are amazingly easy to work with for this kind of thing. I hope you all had a good weekend, I strutted about the renfest sporting my newest toy, which nobody noticed amid all the craziness that is my costume, no less! Ah well, it's all of the details like this that all add up, even if people don't really focus on any particular element.