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well while ago we used some kinetic sand
and some molten gallium to cast a small
version of Grant’s face today we wanted
to scale that up and we’re going to be
trying to make a life-size cast of my
face in metal
this kinetic sand stuff is really cool
and it compresses down holding a
surprising amount of detail which is why
before we took this little 3d print of
grants face used it to make a mold and
then cast some gallium into that sand
that worked out really well and today we
want to try scaling that up we’ve got
quite a bit more kinetic sand and we’re
gonna see if we can do a full size
casting of my face what we’re going for
here is pretty simple we’re gonna take a
bunch of kinetic sand put it into a box
and then try smashing my face into the
sand to make a mold filling it with
molten gallium which should cool off
into a solid metal face so we’ve got
kinetic sand here here here and here and
then we’ve got a bunch of gallium and
this stuff is supercool by which I mean
it’s molten while it’s quite cool I can
easily put my hand in it without any
worry of burning because it’s just not
that hot our thermometer is actually
currently registering the surface as
below the freezing point of gallium
which means it should be solidifying and
it is a little bit we’ve got sort of a
skin on here this gallium is currently
just barely warm enough to stay liquid
it’s cooling down fairly quickly and we
start getting solid parts and this can
easily remelt including just by putting
it down at the bottom of this but it is
cooling off quite a bit when it’s hot it
stays bright and silvery a lot quicker
but this is cool so as I clear a space
away it just starts freezing and you can
see it stopped being quite so silvery
very quickly so the goal is going to be
to take our kinetics and put that into a
box and try and smoosh my face into it
well enough that we can cast it in
gallium but I do have a couple other
things I want to try I have a bunch of
coloured sand and I actually just want
to see what it looks like pouring the
molten gallium into that coloured sand
so I’m going to do a few experiments of
sand is so much lighter weight that it’s
actually just floating on top
[Music]
galium pours into sand fairly
interestingly the sand sort of floats on
top of it we’ve seen that it does not
behave the same way with kinetic sand
especially if we smash it down so let’s
take all of our kinetic sand put it in
this box and see if I can make a mold of
my face
[Music]
[Music]
I’ve got two methods that we’re gonna
try first I’m gonna see what happens if
I actually just smush my face down into
this sand I’ll hold my breath keep my
eyes post and press my face down in see
what sort of indentation I can get now
the sand has some good give to it but so
does my face so do all faces so I’m
afraid that may or may not work out too
well but I do have a plan B but let’s
try this C go my glasses got a towel for
when I pull my face out so I can just
wipe it all off things I do for you guys
it’s like if I were turned into
Voldemort and Voldemort had a beard you
can see all my facial hair picked up all
the detail but like my whole face is so
smashed flat so smashing my face down
into the sand gave an impression of an
extremely smushed face that’s not quite
what we’re going for entertaining as
that is to look at so we do have a plan
B
several years ago helping out in a
friend’s makeup class I had this made
this is actually a copy of my face if my
face had no hair on top no eyebrows no
facial hair nothing but that’s me right
there this is made of what I believe is
called ultra cow it’s sort of a cross
between plaster and cement it’s really
really hard much harder than my face and
much harder than the kinetic sand and so
if we press this down into the kinetic
sand we should just get a nice imprint
without any deformation we’re gonna do
that now we’re gonna get the sand back
to being fluffy and then we’re gonna set
this up so we can tip it down and just
smush it down into the sand and
hopefully get a nice clean unmasked
version of my face in the units and
I’ve got the face smushed in pretty good
and I’m just trying to smush down all
the rest of the sand so it’s properly
reinforced and will hold its shape
that’s alright I’m just gonna kind of
grabbed me by my ears here and we have
my face smushed into the sand and theory
my current actual face should fit nicely
down into that and I’m gonna see if it
does that fits quite nice guess I
shouldn’t really be surprised it’s my
face after all but like it it goes down
in and I can just feel it lightly
touching all parts of my face and maybe
getting pink sand on it I don’t know
about that but now we’re gonna round up
all of the gallium that we have and
slowly carefully pour it in there that
random fact kinetic sand is made out of
98% regular sand and 2%
polydimethylsiloxane
an important component of silly putty as
full as we can get it okay guys my face
has now been poured in gallium and we
need to let this cool down and that
actually takes quite a while the gallium
when it’s in a liquid state likes to
hold on to it for a while and so it’s
gonna take some time for this to all
freeze back into a solid block once it
is we can pull it out of the sand and
see if we have a metal cast of my face
okay I think it’s time for the main
event
let’s try pulling this face out or sand
sticking to it but I think we’ve got
[Music]
well I think that worked out pretty
nicely now it’s a little bit hard to see
the similarities when you’re just
looking at an all one color face that
doesn’t have the rest of the head or
hair on it
but I think that did a really good job
you can see pretty much just the same
shape
now I have my lovely metal face to go
along with my lovely concrete face and
my okay skin made face I want to see if
I can’t polish this up it’s a little bit
so we can have like a shiny metal look
[Music]
casting my face in kinetic sand that
actually worked really well of course we
had to use my stone like face to really
get the mold because I was getting a
very smooshed look when I just pressed
my face down into the kinetics and
although that was pretty fun too but
overall I think we had a great result I
don’t know what I’m going to do with a
metal face of myself but it’s pretty
neat this kinetic sand works really well
for casting gallium gallium melts at
such a low temperature like 85 degrees
Fahrenheit that it doesn’t burn the
kinetics and the way like molten
aluminum does there may be some other
things that will cast really well in
kinetics and – we’d love to hear your
ideas of what you’d like to see us try
it is still a granule sand so we don’t
want to do things that are too liquid I
suspect most types of resin will just
seep right down through the sand but
maybe if we compact it enough that
wouldn’t happen
we also may sometime decide to show you
how to make one of these things for
yourself we’ve already got a stone cast
Nate maybe we’ll make a stone cast grant
guys thanks for watching but that’s not
all that box up at the top will
transport you directly to our last video
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and offers go ahead and click the link
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well while ago we used some kinetic sand
and some molten gallium to cast a small
version of Grant’s face today we wanted
to scale that up and we’re going to be
trying to make a life-size cast of my
face in metal
this kinetic sand stuff is really cool
and it compresses down holding a
surprising amount of detail which is why
before we took this little 3d print of
grants face used it to make a mold and
then cast some gallium into that sand
that worked out really well and today we
want to try scaling that up we’ve got
quite a bit more kinetic sand and we’re
gonna see if we can do a full size
casting of my face what we’re going for
here is pretty simple we’re gonna take a
bunch of kinetic sand put it into a box
and then try smashing my face into the
sand to make a mold filling it with
molten gallium which should cool off
into a solid metal face so we’ve got
kinetic sand here here here and here and
then we’ve got a bunch of gallium and
this stuff is supercool by which I mean
it’s molten while it’s quite cool I can
easily put my hand in it without any
worry of burning because it’s just not
that hot our thermometer is actually
currently registering the surface as
below the freezing point of gallium
which means it should be solidifying and
it is a little bit we’ve got sort of a
skin on here this gallium is currently
just barely warm enough to stay liquid
it’s cooling down fairly quickly and we
start getting solid parts and this can
easily remelt including just by putting
it down at the bottom of this but it is
cooling off quite a bit when it’s hot it
stays bright and silvery a lot quicker
but this is cool so as I clear a space
away it just starts freezing and you can
see it stopped being quite so silvery
very quickly so the goal is going to be
to take our kinetics and put that into a
box and try and smoosh my face into it
well enough that we can cast it in
gallium but I do have a couple other
things I want to try I have a bunch of
coloured sand and I actually just want
to see what it looks like pouring the
molten gallium into that coloured sand
so I’m going to do a few experiments of
sand is so much lighter weight that it’s
actually just floating on top
[Music]
galium pours into sand fairly
interestingly the sand sort of floats on
top of it we’ve seen that it does not
behave the same way with kinetic sand
especially if we smash it down so let’s
take all of our kinetic sand put it in
this box and see if I can make a mold of
my face
[Music]
[Music]
I’ve got two methods that we’re gonna
try first I’m gonna see what happens if
I actually just smush my face down into
this sand I’ll hold my breath keep my
eyes post and press my face down in see
what sort of indentation I can get now
the sand has some good give to it but so
does my face so do all faces so I’m
afraid that may or may not work out too
well but I do have a plan B but let’s
try this C go my glasses got a towel for
when I pull my face out so I can just
wipe it all off things I do for you guys
it’s like if I were turned into
Voldemort and Voldemort had a beard you
can see all my facial hair picked up all
the detail but like my whole face is so
smashed flat so smashing my face down
into the sand gave an impression of an
extremely smushed face that’s not quite
what we’re going for entertaining as
that is to look at so we do have a plan
B
several years ago helping out in a
friend’s makeup class I had this made
this is actually a copy of my face if my
face had no hair on top no eyebrows no
facial hair nothing but that’s me right
there this is made of what I believe is
called ultra cow it’s sort of a cross
between plaster and cement it’s really
really hard much harder than my face and
much harder than the kinetic sand and so
if we press this down into the kinetic
sand we should just get a nice imprint
without any deformation we’re gonna do
that now we’re gonna get the sand back
to being fluffy and then we’re gonna set
this up so we can tip it down and just
smush it down into the sand and
hopefully get a nice clean unmasked
version of my face in the units and
I’ve got the face smushed in pretty good
and I’m just trying to smush down all
the rest of the sand so it’s properly
reinforced and will hold its shape
that’s alright I’m just gonna kind of
grabbed me by my ears here and we have
my face smushed into the sand and theory
my current actual face should fit nicely
down into that and I’m gonna see if it
does that fits quite nice guess I
shouldn’t really be surprised it’s my
face after all but like it it goes down
in and I can just feel it lightly
touching all parts of my face and maybe
getting pink sand on it I don’t know
about that but now we’re gonna round up
all of the gallium that we have and
slowly carefully pour it in there that
random fact kinetic sand is made out of
98% regular sand and 2%
polydimethylsiloxane
an important component of silly putty as
full as we can get it okay guys my face
has now been poured in gallium and we
need to let this cool down and that
actually takes quite a while the gallium
when it’s in a liquid state likes to
hold on to it for a while and so it’s
gonna take some time for this to all
freeze back into a solid block once it
is we can pull it out of the sand and
see if we have a metal cast of my face
okay I think it’s time for the main
event
let’s try pulling this face out or sand
sticking to it but I think we’ve got
[Music]
well I think that worked out pretty
nicely now it’s a little bit hard to see
the similarities when you’re just
looking at an all one color face that
doesn’t have the rest of the head or
hair on it
but I think that did a really good job
you can see pretty much just the same
shape
now I have my lovely metal face to go
along with my lovely concrete face and
my okay skin made face I want to see if
I can’t polish this up it’s a little bit
so we can have like a shiny metal look
[Music]
casting my face in kinetic sand that
actually worked really well of course we
had to use my stone like face to really
get the mold because I was getting a
very smooshed look when I just pressed
my face down into the kinetics and
although that was pretty fun too but
overall I think we had a great result I
don’t know what I’m going to do with a
metal face of myself but it’s pretty
neat this kinetic sand works really well
for casting gallium gallium melts at
such a low temperature like 85 degrees
Fahrenheit that it doesn’t burn the
kinetics and the way like molten
aluminum does there may be some other
things that will cast really well in
kinetics and – we’d love to hear your
ideas of what you’d like to see us try
it is still a granule sand so we don’t
want to do things that are too liquid I
suspect most types of resin will just
seep right down through the sand but
maybe if we compact it enough that
wouldn’t happen
we also may sometime decide to show you
how to make one of these things for
yourself we’ve already got a stone cast
Nate maybe we’ll make a stone cast grant
guys thanks for watching but that’s not
all that box up at the top will
transport you directly to our last video
you should go check that out the other
box will show you what YouTube thinks
you should be watching next and if you
aren’t a subscriber yet just hit this
bomb to get in the club that way you
never miss a video don’t forget to ring
that Bell and we will see you in the next one talk to you then
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