Personal Project Journal: January 15, 2012

Last week I have been working on building the model dock and I finished casting the blocks out of plaster of Paris.

1.  I made a piece that was perfect and then I compacted sand into cupcake tins and pressed the piece in.
2.  I then mixed up the plaster and poured it into the molds.
3.  After it was dry I removed it and sanded the sides to remove the left over sand from the edges. 

I had to repeat these steps ten times to make the correct amount and to have some left as spares. Now I am gluing the posts onto the blocks and then I will glue those to the dock. Here's a video of me making the perfect piece.