Oils resin figures in crock pot(slow cooker)?

[pipetrepid]

i have a general question, hopefully someone can help me on this. can i place resin busts in a crockpot at the lowest temperature? i paint with oils and would like to speed up the drying time. i used to do this with white metal figures but not sure if resin figures will hold up. please let me know and thank you.

 

[pmfs]

Yes, I have my new bust drying this moment with 50w lamp.

 

[ausf]

My resin supplier recommends a low temp post-cure heating of a few hours.

So, unless it produces some mild outgassing (isocyanate urethanes break down into benzene-like compounds) or leaching that would hurt paint adhesion, you may even be helping the product by 'crocking' it.

Couldn't hurt to test it with the primer coat or early on in your process. Different resins/paints may all act differently and it wouldn't be good to have 20 hours work end up peeling off.

 

[megroot]

I do my oilpainted figures under a 60W lightbulb the whole night.
The other morning everything is dry and matt.
With the crockpot you can do the same. It works for resin to.
Sometimes i found that resin is become soft. Don't touch it, let it sit into the crockpot and switch it off.
After cooling the resin is again rockhard.

Marc

 

[Einion]

One thing I think you do have to worry about are thin parts that stick out - like a sword held in an outstretched hand as an extreme example, which might have a tendency to sag.

Thinner parts (like muskets or pole arms) might generally be something to be cautious about as I've experienced some bowing of them even from heating with a hairdryer.

Einion