aaaaaaand now, when the finished product STARTS to take shape. this is after the hotcoat. i wanted to cover all the disgusting holes and discolorations and water damage and nasty edges and my mom really likes turquoise, so i mixed up the hotcoat with blue and a bit of green to get this. i put a bit of q-cell in to make it just a bit more opaque, but not enough to change the liquid properties of the resin. damn...what a frickin' mess that was. i have turquoise resin under my big toenail...i have to wait for this to harden a bit more, then i'm going to go on the underside and do a glosscoat there to seal it. i THINK i'm gonna pigment that too but i haven't decided yet. maybe just flat blue, that could be cool. then i gotta turn it back over to this side (top) and sand the sit out of it to get it as flast as possible. after that i'm gonna let my mom decorate as she wishes with acrylic paints and then glosscoat the top and i'm done.