Sealing terrain which has glass on it

[JerryH]

Hi,

We're making some small terrain pieces (sort of a "forest" of sea glass which is imbedded into hardened sculpy bases) and I am not sure what to use to seal it or which order to do so.

Basically, the order we're making them is..

1. Pick out sea glass (it's the frosty looking glass commonly used for decorating or fish tanks, not sharp unless broken).

2. Push sea glass into sculpey in neat looking designs.

3. Remove glass and bake sculpey.

4. Super glue sculpey "base" to larger plastic base.

5. Apply glue to plastic base, place sand and re-glue with watered down PVA.

6. Paint base, drybrush, etc.

7. Super glue "glass" into holes created in sculpey in step 2.

That's it.. but I need to seal the entire piece. I was going to use some dullcote or matte sealer (krylon?) but realized I might not want to spray it onto the actual glass pieces.

Now I'm not sure how to approach the final steps (got it all done other than gluing glass in and sealing).

We started these for halo covenant terrain but now that I've found this site, we're considering using these for a Cryx themed board. If need-be I can likely get some pics posted.

Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

-Jerry

[Iff]

It seems too obvious (so I'm probably overlooking something), but have you thought about spraying on the sealer in between steps 6 and 7? That would protect the sculpey, the sand and the paint job. After that, you can glue in the glass.

[JerryH]

Yep, that's where I assumed it would need to be done if it's an issue being sprayed on the glass. I guess that helps cut my whole verbose post down to the proper question - is it ok to "Seal" the glass along with the rest of the piece? Will it peel off later, cause discoloration, etc.?

Thanks Iff.

[Greywolf]

It should not peel off of the glass, but will dull it if you are using a matte finish. So it really depends on what you want the end look of the glass to be.

And as far as discoloration goes, you'll want a product that specifically says it prevents yellowing such as Krylon's Matte Finish.

[JerryH]

Great, thanks for the advice Greywolf!

I'm off today to pick up some Krylon. Appreciate the help guys.

-Jerry

[JerryH]

A few pictures of the pieces prior to sealing. They're sitting on the board we'll be using them with.


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[iG4MER]

Can ya get us a bigger picture of the whole table.. it looks spiffy!

[fire4effekt]

Try sealing a spare piece of glass like you plan on sealing the terrain and see what happens, it may be fine. It may explode your mileage may vary ;)

[Aníron]

Oh, there is Tiberium in the Iron Kingdoms? ^^

[PretiJewel]

Coat the glass with rubber cement, let it dry, spray it with Krylon, then the rubber cement (with the matte finish on it) will rub off the glass.

Then the next time you build terrain, make sure that anything that should not get coated with a sealer goes on the very last thing after you've sealed the rest.

[onitora]

I wasn't liking these pieces as you were explaining, them- But then I saw the pics. Bravo! Looks nice!

[Hollow_Echo]

In my head I had a different looking landscape idea almost like a hill with glass nodules poking out the top,but looking but after seeing yours I answered my question of "when you bake scupty doesn't it shrink?"

[fire4effekt]

When you bake sculpy it does not shrink(if it does its minute)