Last Year, around Xmas, I got into kit bashing and scratch building figurines. My goal was really just to keep everything super cheap... if I was buying green stuff for 20 bucks, it just wasn't worth it. Eventually I stumbled on some potential game changers: oyumaru and sprue goo. With these, in theory, I could recast figurines infinitely for pennies. As usual, I gave myself a deep dive into Youtube for an education and started to experiment. The first experiment was an utter failure. I bought dollar store nail polish remover and used spare plastic minis (because I didn't have any actual sprues).
I soaked them for days and nothing happened. Eventually I figured out that the dollar store nail polish remover was more water than acetone and wasn't strong enough, so I bought this...
Success was just around the corner ... except it wasn't. This didn't do anything, either. I was frustrated and considered giving up, having spent ten bucks on useless acetone. Then I thought I'd try another experiment and put Styrofoam into the acetone ... and it worked! The resultant goop was not very easy to work with, but it had a couple of good points. It didn't stick to my fingers and it didn't stick to the oyumaru.
I found a few immediate uses for it, including as a medium for basing.
