Margareta - Germany
Arwen's Butterfly Crown in tin
and resin
I more or less followed the construction tips on your site. After
cutting the metal pieces I rubbed them with a wooden spoon to give
them a bit of a 3-dimensional look and shape them, after that I
embossed the outlines of the wing details with an embossing tool. Next
step was to glue on the wire parts with fast drying (5 min!) epoxy
glue. For more firmness I covered the whole backside with a layer of
epoxy resin, which is always a bit tricky: immediately after mixing
the components the resin is far too runny to use. You have to wait
about 30 minutes to have the right consistence and then have to work
quick before the stuff gets too stiff to use it. The resin needs about
24 hours to dry
After that I did the painting with opaque glass paint, accentuated with
silver window colour outline paint. The wire parts were painted with Color
Magic glass and metal paint, glitter silver, to keep them from oxidation and
give them a more noble look. To protect everything and get a smooth and
shiny surface I then attached a thin layer of epoxy resin. When the resin
was still sticky but dry enough not to run anymore I scattered silver
glimmer onto the surface, carefully leaving out the painted details. After
another 24 hours of drying I fixed the pieces. The back piece is attached to
the side pieces with jump rings.
