This week, I made a couple of molded fingers. Like most of the projects, I had a lot of fun with the entire process. in order to finish my project, I had to create a mold for my finger, mix/pour plaster into it, allow my fingers to set then take them out to clean up and post process.

I started off with casting two fingers to make two separate molds. While I originally followed the suggested about of powder for the plaster, I ended up needing to add more plaster to get it to a consistency that was not way too watery. I probably messed something up, but I ended up using all the plaster I made so it worked out.

 

In order to incorporate a blobfish into this project, I used double sided tape to attach a small 3D printed blobfish to my finger.

Unfortunately, the second mold I made did not produce a good finger. I believe this is because I put too thick of plaster into the mold and it caused my finger to look bulged and imperfect. My poor blobfish was very warped.

Because I did not want to make another mold, I reused the mold that produced a great finger! I was not sure how this would work because I cut the mold to get my fingers out but other than a slightly elongated fingernail, it went really well. On this one, I also etched a little cliff along both sides of the finger because I wanted to try and make a silly little art piece where my blobfish was sitting on a patch of grass surrounded by water. However, it was not until after I etched out my finger that I realized we did not have regular paint, only spray paint and markers. Everything turned out okay though because it is hard to see the cliff part of the finger with the spray paint.

 

With my two finished fingers, I decided to hydro dip my fingers. It seemed like a fun and cool way to coat them and I was right. I used light and dark green plus the gold spray paint. After they dried, I coated them in a clear coat and called them finished!

This project was over all a lot of fun and very cool. Casting and molding are skills that always seemed interesting, but I never had a good enough reason to try them so I am grateful for this project.

Price break down:

Material cost = $15

4 hours at $10 an hour = $40

Spray paint and pla = $5

Total = $60