the project was coming along so well, everything was beautiful. I made the mistake of starting my pour at the wrong time of day. As a result, my resin came out slightly wrinkled, which I initially thought no big deal, I’d seen worse waves, but then I set it in the sunshine to cure rock hard, and when I came back an hour later, I found this.

The resin cooled before it outgassed, and when it warmed up the air said I want out! Fuuuck! My project was essentially ruined, all that time wasted, and I still have my custom chess pieces, so what now?

I completely change styles, no more resin, block and mirror, to great effect.

So I got out my good old metal cast blue and purchased some 2 inch mirrors and added them in. What you see is the coating over the mirrors until I’m finished, we shall see.

next was to get a frame, and this time, I made sure it was at least 16 and a 1/2 inches to accommodate the little stretch that I get from the 2 inch squares.that being said on we went and I lined it up, I could have used glass or plastic. I chose plastic just due to the stress wear and tear and well, we’ll see.

last is the frame, nice,

I did the pieces early on nice and blue and white pearlescent, I think the whole thing fits in really well. I may go ahead and coat them, but we’ll see, until then, this is what you see thanks and have a good time.