I made a snowglobe for my Mr. Freeze in Nov 2014. I broke it in March 2015. It seems a snowglobes will not survive a mere few feet fall. Whoops.
So I grabbed the figurine as fast as I could. It was hard for me to find a ballerine in this size. She is a cake topper. So I threw her in my bag. Left everything else behind. And was mad.
I got home. Ordered a new globe. I looked at the figure. And the paint was flaking off. I peeled most of it off with my fingers. I put it in my ultrasonic jewelry cleaner and removed 90% of it in 5 minues. Not good. So I set about figuring out how to make paint last underwater forever.
I assumed that my cake topper was the same plastic as plastic forks. I painted 5 forks. All in different colors of enamel. Then coated them in different clear coats (resin spray, shellac, laquer, poly urathan). And one control. I let them sit in my jewelry cleaner until I saw a result. 3 weeks later the Shellac seemed to be untouched. The rest had areas when paint was removed. So I finished enameling my figurine. Then shellaced her.
So I grabbed the figurine as fast as I could. It was hard for me to find a ballerine in this size. She is a cake topper. So I threw her in my bag. Left everything else behind. And was mad.
I got home. Ordered a new globe. I looked at the figure. And the paint was flaking off. I peeled most of it off with my fingers. I put it in my ultrasonic jewelry cleaner and removed 90% of it in 5 minues. Not good. So I set about figuring out how to make paint last underwater forever.
I assumed that my cake topper was the same plastic as plastic forks. I painted 5 forks. All in different colors of enamel. Then coated them in different clear coats (resin spray, shellac, laquer, poly urathan). And one control. I let them sit in my jewelry cleaner until I saw a result. 3 weeks later the Shellac seemed to be untouched. The rest had areas when paint was removed. So I finished enameling my figurine. Then shellaced her.
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