Anyone used the clear casting resin from Michael's?

[GMP440]

Michael's sells clear casting resin. Has anyone ever used it to cast model parts?

[RyanSilva]

I used it..i did not like it at all, to many bubbles..even pouring tiny streams and stirring slowly..I did not have my pressurepot at the time, so maybe now it would be ok..but i was not impresssed with it. If you can get it cheap using the coupon, you should be ok to exsperiment with it.

[Abell82]

I believe that all clear resins recommend the use of a pressure tank, to remove bubbles.

[torinobradley]

I did some things with it but it seemed to always come out sticky and shrank a few scales... I have a few casts of a 1/27th scale big block chevy...

[Aaronw]

Alumilite makes a decent clear resin, you are supposed to use a pressure pot with it but I've used it without one and the bubbles were not too bad. It really makes a difference on how clear you need the part to be, something you need to see through, you definately will want a pressure pot, I used it for lights so a fair bit was painted over, plus I used various Tamiya clear color paints on the lenses.

I have used another clear resin I bought at a craft store and it never really fully cured, the surface remained tacky. I still have a few pieces I cast with it several years ago and they are still tacky after at least 4 years.

Here is the link to the alumilite clear, it is actually pretty reasonable and it is a 1-1 mix like most solid resins, the other clear resins I've seen are 10-1 mixes.

http://www.alumilite.com/ProdDetail.cfm?Ca...umilite%20Clear