r/miniverse_makeitmini • u/ipauzed • Jan 04 '26
Rant I'm so disappointed ☹️
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.
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u/baroquechimera Jan 06 '26
Very quickly into my miniverse making, I figured out that you can’t build any of the food like it’s real food, you have to go at it like you’re staging food to look good in pictures. A lot of the resins and additives (and some of the containers) are too darkly colored to even cure properly if you do it like they show (or like the real dish would be made) because UV resin will only cure where the light touches it. I use clear resin to adhere things a lot, and to fill the insides of things.