Bob in SF
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Yes - I know there were 11 Pipers Piping on the 11th day.
But I was alone (and unafraid), and there were no other pipers in sight.
Decades after I'd piped innumerable cake frostings when the children were young, I had a little light bulb moment: Why not make some heat-sealed acrylic paint-filled tapering polyethylene bags (also recycling pen kit parts bags), cut the ends open, attach small piping tips with some press-and-seal wrap, do some alcohol ink underpaintings on brass pen tubes, pipe on some leaf-like "terrains", airbrush-seal them with Createx acrylic gloss top coat, let them dry for a week, tube-in cast them at 50psi with Douglas and Sturgess PR, turn them "fat" to avoid cutting into the "terrains", finish as usual and assemble? I realized that I'd be the same age whether or not I did it - so I did it.
Here are some techniques, a Virage fountain pen, a fat Slimline stylus pen, and some close-up views:
Happy Memorial Day!
- Bob
But I was alone (and unafraid), and there were no other pipers in sight.
Decades after I'd piped innumerable cake frostings when the children were young, I had a little light bulb moment: Why not make some heat-sealed acrylic paint-filled tapering polyethylene bags (also recycling pen kit parts bags), cut the ends open, attach small piping tips with some press-and-seal wrap, do some alcohol ink underpaintings on brass pen tubes, pipe on some leaf-like "terrains", airbrush-seal them with Createx acrylic gloss top coat, let them dry for a week, tube-in cast them at 50psi with Douglas and Sturgess PR, turn them "fat" to avoid cutting into the "terrains", finish as usual and assemble? I realized that I'd be the same age whether or not I did it - so I did it.
Here are some techniques, a Virage fountain pen, a fat Slimline stylus pen, and some close-up views:
Happy Memorial Day!
- Bob
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