Time to acquire your Infinity Gems, luckily for us we won’t be fighting Iron Man, Adam Warlock or Mr. Fantastic to get them.
Though, less arduous, this step still takes a few days to allow the gems to cure unless you use pre-cast gemstones. Obtain eight containers (six to colorize your epoxy, two for mixing), a wood stick (to stir with), six toothpicks (to mix the colors) and a slab of non-hardening clay rolled flat and thick enough to press your gems into to make a mold. Make your mold as seen in the images by pressing the purchased gemstones into the clay then popping them out with a thin screwdriver. This may leave some disfiguration of the mold which is fine since the edges will be covered in the final design, though you could always mount a handle to the gemstone to help pull it out.
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To prepare the epoxy, start by reading the directions to the clear casting epoxy materials completely. Follow them to mix up enough casting material to make your six gems. It’ll take some time to harden so no rush, work carefully over a protected surface, stirring occasionally.
Prior to portioning out your epoxy, prepare the six containers you have for coloring with one drop of each food coloring. My food coloring came with four bottles, red, green, blue and yellow. To make orange and purple mix 3:1 yellow:red and 5:1 blue:red, respectively, then add one drop of each mix to the respective cups. Decant the clear epoxy into each cup by pouring it against the mixing stick, pour about twice as much as you think you’ll need for each color.
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Once the clear epoxy is decanted, mix each color verywell, the water and glycerin-based colorants aren’t very miscible in epoxy so they take a lot of effort to mix thoroughly. Once mixed, decant the colored epoxy against the toothpick into each gem mold (remember the green one is the larger of the six gems), try to get it even with the top of the mold. If you get a little zealous with your pouring, like I did with the green gem, just build a barrier to collect the over-pour and protect it from the other gems. Any over-pour can be trimmed off once the gem hardens.
Pop the gems out after they are cured (anywhere from 24-72 hours usually) and clean up any over-pour with your rotary tool or knife and sand paper. I also had to clean the clay off of the gems because I forgot to spray a release agent on the clay. You should also lightly sand the backs of the gems with fine grit sandpaper to diffuse the light from the LED. Any marring or dullness in the gem surface can be rectified by painting on some clear nail polish or super glue.
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