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In the process of using a friend's custom belly pan to mold my own.
Wrapped his in saran wrap, mixed up the resin per the instructions, brushed it on the saran wrap, laid the mat down, and brushed more on top.
Where I'm stuck is that I can't get the mat to "stick to" a couple of concave parts.
After brushing everything patiently, and playing around with it for like half an hour, I realized it wasn't hardening as fast as I expected it to, so I mixed up a little more resin hotter this time (3x the "normal" amount of hardener - i.e. 30 drops for about an ounce of resin) and figured that would start hardening fast enough for me to start forming the concave parts while it hardened.
That still didn't harden "real time" like I thought it would, so I set it aside for about 20 minutes and went back to it. It was starting to get hard (that's what she said) but now it's sticky and hard to press into the concave parts without it just pulling back out - using the brush vs. a gloved hand helped, but still not going as well as I thought.
There's got to be a better way. I figure I've got very little time before the stuff sets for good. Anything I can do to salvage this? Or am I going to just have to start over tomorrow? If so, what do I do different.