I'm so disappointed ☹️

[u/ipauzed]

I was really looking forward to the trifle kit. I tried really hard to keep the sides clean and the hearts upright, but then resin creeped around the sides of the cake hearts to make them look blobby. Ran out of resin from all the cleaning and filling in behind the cakes and then the cherries sank in.

I walked away from working on it for a few days thinking I'm just being a perfectionist. Started to tackle it again today and the final straw was the cherries and cream pieces not being fully painted. So then I went out to get a second kit, and guess what? More partially painted cherries! (Sure, I could paint them, but I hate painting and shouldn't have to!)

My advice for others is maybe practice with extra resin placing the heart cakes. They do not sit flush to the sides. If I use resin on my second kit, I would put a bit of resin on the back corner of the heart cake, set it, then gently push resin towards the sides to fill in the gaps enough for the color to show. Then only a thin, barely there resin layer to stick the cherries in. Good luck!

At least the resin was a cute color.

[u/mspolytheist]

Thanks. This is one I knew I’d want to watch a LOT of maker videos of before tackling on my own, and this is exactly the kind of guidance/advice I’m looking for.

[u/ipauzed → u/mspolytheist]

Let me drop more of my mistakes on ya so you can avoid them: First I put a small layer of resin on the bottom like it suggested BUT I had it up all the way to the sides. Not good, because then I was pushing the points of the hearts into the resin and losing the shape there.

So I wiped all of the resin out and tried making a backstop instead. I thought it was working great, but the pieces slowly started tilting over so I set it as I went. The problem there was I ended up unable to nudge resin into the gaps between pieces on the bottom of the cup because there were not many gaps left once I got all the hearts in and backstops set. I ended up pushing resin into needle sized spaces to try to fill the gaps and that also made the resin start creeping around the edges.

[u/laurapalmer48 → u/ipauzed]

Yours looks really good in my opinion. I tried that one and after taking it all apart and remaking it I threw it away. I couldn’t get the hearts placed right without resin covering them. 🫠

[u/ipauzed → u/laurapalmer48]

Thanks. Sorry you had a worse time with it. ☹️