I realised over the weekend that the peice I had been working on (above picture) had the wrong tapers on the sides because they went all the way down to the base, thus making the outer ring of studs start further in to the piece. Today I re made the outer studs to meet the existing edge of the segment and fill the whole shape as intended and as the actual badge appears(below).

I also drew out the centre ring and letters that I have arranged to laser cut tomorrow.

In the afternoon I was able to sign off on the mould for the point segment and made a casing for it from styrene (see below).

I then stuck the point segment in place and went to pour the silicon. As this is only a small mould I only needed 100g of silicon(Part B) to 10g (10%) catalyst(part A).

Supersil Silicon Parts A and B:

This was mixed and then degassed. Then at Will's instruction I poured the silicon in to the mould at an angle 'like a pint of guinness' so that it slowly made its way up and over into all of the 'trench' like gaps on the segment. This was to avoid air bubbles being caught in the mould.

Hopefully this will have worked well and I should be able to produce my first test segment in resin tomorrow.

I also discussed getting hold of metal powders for my sample badges with Julia in the workshop. I may be able to use some of the existing stock but I will plan to buy some of my own just in case. I must decide on this either by the end of this week or early next week so I can make the order and start to produce badges in different finishes.

Below: Some examples of metal powder effects being made by Julia as example pieces.