Evan and Katelyn
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Resin Pumpkin 2022 - mega update!
🕑 Added 2022-10-20 18:47:10 +0000 UTCWe owe you guys a BIG update because we’ve been working on this year’s attempt to preserve a carved pumpkin in resin - and we haven’t shared any updates yet! We actually started it late September because it’s a project that needs a lot of time (both for resin curing, and to give us time to see if the pumpkin changes after it’s in resin)
So what’s the plan this year? Well we are taking it to an extreme and embedding it in a 12”x10”x11” cube of solid resin
The thing is, to pour resin this thick we needed to use a special “thick set” resin, which requires a LOT more time to cure between layers (and we knew we’d need to pour it over the course of several days). So to pre-seal the pumpkin (who we named Meatball), we coated him with fast cure resin first.
Once we started pouring the thickset over him in the box, we thought it’d be smooth sailing. But alas, we hit snags on nearly every layer, from things not curing fast enough to juice leakage to bubbles.
All the while we knew we had to get the resin fully poured before we left for TwitchCon, otherwise he might end up facing the same fate as Francis
Luckily we DID get him fully covered in time and we just recently demolded him after he fully cured. We polished him up and made a fancy little base that holds a light under him.
I don’t want to share a final photo yet since he still may continue to change over time, but I’m hopeful that he’s fully “locked in” now!
-Katelyn
Comments
Karen Sue
Meatball is SO CUTE! The heat making pumpkin juice is too familiar to me from trying to make chocolate covered strawberries. I always dip the fruit in too early and I guess the fruit "cooks" a little so I get strawberry pee.
E5C4P3 V3L0C1t
I wonder if you could use wood hardener and a vacuum chamber to preserve a pumpkin (like you would for a balsa wood knife handle)?
