Here are images from my wax casting trial.
This is the newly built wax mold made with layered chipboard and lined with tacky glue.
This is the outcome after attempting to remove the wax from the mold. This trial was not a complete failure as the "positive" spaces appeared to be perfectly intact on the surrounding edges. But once it got to the middle area, the pieces were fragile. Not only that, the chipboard in the middle was soaked in wax and was almost impossible to remove without breaking the wax.
This is my second attempt at making a wax mold. This time, i used foam core.
Equally, I lined the inside with tacky glue.
This I have to say was not at all what I was expecting. The wax simply seeped through the foam mold and spilled onto the ground. It seeped through the lined glue areas like water. Also, it started eating away a bit of the foam mold.
At this point, I ran out of clean wax to use. With that, I decided to try out plaster.
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