Lead to gold ? huh, child's play.
I've just turned plastic to copper !
This is genuine old school alchemy.
So what's going on here is I've been thinking about electroplating 3d prints for a while.
The game season is coming up and a friend just bought one of these:
http://www.mackspw.com/Item--i-FIN100And i said, I can make those for a lot less money. lol
The problem is that while the plastic ones are 'probably' strong enough, you can still break them fairly easily.
So I started looking into electroplating - turns out one of the uk's best suppliers of kit happens to be based about a mile up the road from me.
Gateros electroplating - though he calls it electroforming.
Phoned them up and popped over for a chat on monday.
Dan is a great bloke, had a great chat, learnt a helluva lot and bought a kit for not much money.
Result, I can now alchemically cover plastic with a very strong metal. Hot diggity !
Now I just need some sigil covered robes and a skullcap !
Pick below shows a plastic finisher clone and the new and improved copper version. And that is super strong, can't break it with my hands.
Actually i can plate pretty much anything, still trying to think of a sling based usage for it.