I had some latex left from my iceberg making experience, so I proceeded to use the same moulding technique but it went awfully wrong as the surface to mould was too large and I couldn’t have any rigidity whatever technique I used. I even tried to set a 2 parts plaster mould to rigidify the whole and it just failed miserably. (pic 28)

Then I tried simply with plaster and it went even worse –even if the mould appeared to be okay at first, when I poured the resin in it I simply couldn’t detached it even though I had liberally greased the mould previously –when attacking it with a hammer I simply destroyed the whole. (pic 29)

Then, with a rather clear vision of the death of my wallet, I proceeded to cross half of the town to go and buy some silicon rubber. I built some walls around my master using some leftover bits of feather cardboard and poured the silicon. It went like heaven and in no time I had a perfect mould and a phone call from the bank.

Now using some polyester resin is all a question of attention, nerves and timing –I love and dread doing the water this way because in no time you can ruin 3 months of efforts and it kinda looks like my life. (pic 30)

I poured three carefully coloured different layers of resin and no more.