>>5516809You can find products from Alumilite, Amazing Mold Products (which is pretty much Alumilite with a different name), and Smooth-On. I'm sure there are other companies that make nice products, but those that I mentioned will probably be the easiest you'll find.
Resin is epoxy resin, for the most part. End result is ~some kind of plastic~. It's kind of a nebulous term since any plastic-like substance which hasn't yet chemically solidified is 'resin'. Clear stuff I've been using is Alumilite Water-Clear, which according to the SDS is "72D Casting Urethane", whatever that means. Of course, you won't be able to make bubble-free parts without a pressure chamber.
>>5516817of course, in fact here's a tutorial I found for minifigure helmets while I was doing research a couple days ago:
http://www.minifigcustomizationnetwork.com/howto/3975There's a couple of Star Wars fans I've seen who use resin to make customs, one guy even made a classic-minifigure-creature style tauntaun:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10569>>5516532Thinking about it, I do have some older (and not cheapshit) oil paints that I used when I made pic related, I seem to have gotten more solid colors out of them... They were definitely more oily. Dying resin seems to be tricky, I've tried a lot of things from ink to acrylic paint and various washes (alcohol and pledge w/future don't mix with resin AT ALL). The substance must be as liquid as possible, and not water-based in order to work... and oil paint is the cheapest thing which meets those marks. Will look more into that.
>>5516523Green krana was made with dark green paint, came out a "minty" green. I made a mask of water in the same color but it kinda got fucked up (connectors didn't fill) so I just tossed it out.
>>5517398that'd be easy, it's been done by resin jewelry makers before. making sure stray glitter doesn't fuck up the surface of the thing might be tricky, but I don't know
