Final and Finished Piece

I think the way I made this replica was the right idea to choose. The sand and resin mix worked so well as the material I was working with was a texture in its self. It feels durable and the rust will not come off on your clothes. I really enjoyed making this piece and I was really surprised how well the material worked for me. Its true plain and simple can be the most effect way of working with things.

I used a dark chocolaty brown to spray on dry all over the bomb, this was its base colour. I then mixed up a more ready brown colour to spray on certain areas to give definition and a more depth look to it. Then I mixed a orange brown to spray all over here and there it helped blend in the two colours before. The last colour I mixed was a very light brown. I mixed more thinners in to this colour because as I sprayed with it, it would trickle in to very small places and gather like rust would in areas. With all the colours i used I made sure I mixed matting agent into them as I didn't want a glossy finish.

Spraying the Rust Colours

The texture and colours I used worked really well. I used a total of three different shades of browns.

Adding the Lumpy texture

I was able to us my sculpting skills but with a different material. I was a challenge to recreate rust by sculpting it but because of the material I was working with was a texture all by its self made the finished piece look even better than expected.

I mixed a slightly more wet mixture of sand and resin to create a lumpy texture. I had to do this as if it was any dryer i would not stick to the layered sprinkeled sand.

Appling Texture

For the length of the bomb I applied the sand in a different way. I just painted on some liquid resin and then sprinkled sand on to that and then tapped it off again as if it was like glitter . I did this until it was completely covered. I repeated this process twice so it would give it strength and it would also hid what ever was underneath it, IE a plastic drain pipe.

For the tail end and the front end I mixed a more sand to resin ratio mixture. By doing this it make it more workable and when I put it in its place it stayed there and did not drip off. Because of this texture I could leave marks in the material so it would set with a texture.

Texturing the Bomb

Before I stared putting the texture on the bomb I had to prepare it first. I scratched up all of the tube with a low grain sand paper. then I applied a layer of resin all over the bomb so that the sand and resin mix would stick to the tube and the fins.

Tail End and Fins

With the fins I cut them to shape out of aluminum then fixed them together, then placed and glued them to the aluminum wrapped around the tube.

For the end of the the bomb I wrapped two strips of aluminum around the tube on top of each other. I fixed them down with extra strong adhesive.