Drama's Q&A | September 2020 | Cutting Corners | Concrete Castings | Diamond Painting Kit & More...
hello and happy september everybody so
before we get started just like to wish
chris well that's mr concrete artisan i
expect uh some of the people that are
watching this video
uh watch uh mr concrete artisan chris
as well so wishing luck in his new
ventures
from drama alaska evolution here
recently we've been doing some concrete
castings we've been getting back into
that after making a load of molds the
year before
last year uh there's been a few comments
about how people mix up their
concrete um but i would suggest to
anybody
if they're new to concrete casting is
follow tried and tested
recipes and methods they're not there
just for the sheer hell of it so
um and there's no point in uh
reinventing the wheel so
say for instance like the concrete mix
we want aggregate sand
cement um a bonder
and maybe a plasticizer um i mean that's
a tried and tested method
like i said there's no point in
reinventing the wheel um
so you may notice some comments
on some of my videos uh which you might
need to take with a grain of salt
because there's some people are giving
not very good advice and it could
result in you producing a weak
cast or a substandard cast so on this
channel we try and
get things done to an optimum standard
and if you're going to make something
then you want it to stand the test of
time
uh somebody said they make casts and
they they they um
sell them the next day after they've
pulled them out the mold
um i personally wouldn't do that
if you want to get your concrete as hard
as
uh possible for them to like sell on you
want your product to be
durable so um and most people do this
and most people will agree
they're doing concrete statuary that
they will keep their pieces
moist and wrapped up for around about a
month
and then they will unwrap them and then
they're ready to
do with whatever you want to do so you
might put some paint effects on it but
you might sell the
the cast straight off so but you want to
wait that 30
days so if anybody tells you any
different
um it's probably not
well it's not good advice i wouldn't
take that advice you don't be cutting
any corners when you're making stuff
that's all i'm
all i'm saying is do the best you can
put pride into your work
and you can't really go wrong i mean
obviously you're gonna make some
mistakes
from time to time say for instance i
made
a batch of casts a couple years ago with
concrete and my cement was out of date
so therefore the pieces were
weak so also i wouldn't sell those items
but of course
you are going to make mistakes on the
way um even even with experience you're
gonna make the odd mistake
but um you're striving to make a good
quality product
so like i said there's no cutting
corners and
also get as much information from
professionals as you can
and try and avoid the people that are
going to give you bad advice so we'll
have some more caster videos coming up
shortly
uh we had a couple of videos last week
and in that video i didn't mix my
concrete
uh to a summary consistency to get a
nice clean
cast which is explained in the videos so
um some of you might have seen that in
some
you may not uh we ended up with a
dry mix so with a dry mix you end up
getting
there's more chance of you getting
bubbles in your mix and trapped there
and all that type of thing and i
explained in the video
sometimes you might actually want that
type of effect depending on what you're
going for
but that was just an accident in my case
so this week we'll be mixing up
the uh proper consistency to make up
nice
clean castings other things are on the
go we've got a diamond painting kit on
the go here so that's been sent here and
we'll be
reviewing that soon it's going to take a
while to
make the kit so i'm aiming for the end
of the month to get that video up and
there'll be a discount code for anybody
that wants to
buy the kit actually there'd be a
discount code in the
description below so more on that later
in the month
i've got the snow speed and model to
finish off the paint job
paint effects i know there's some people
that don't like the model
kit videos on this channel but
people that are into the concrete stuff
they may benefit from
paint techniques which are used on these
models which you can transfer onto
your concrete castle model casts or
whatever
so that's about it quick quick update
questions and answers video i'll
probably change the format of these
videos at some point because i think
they're
uh they might be a bit um we might need
a bit of a change i think so we'll
probably would do the last
few of these um
until the end of the year and then
change the format for
what we're going to do i'm not quite
sure what that's going to be because i
think some people get bored of these
uh questions and answers and update
videos so we'll see what happens
anyway that's about it for now um see
you in a month lots more videos coming
up this month
and uh so we'll see you there thanks for
watching
see you soon and over and out for now
you
