Pills

To make the pills look more effective they'll be cast in resin. Turned on a lathe to start with the block of material had to be cut to shape for the lathe to hold onto it

Pretty hard thing to get to grips with this lathe business. I kept getting confused with lefts and rights and ins and outs and almost completely destroyed it a fair few times. Because it had to be millimetre perfect it took me ages to get i down o the right size, through fear of stripping away too much material. Leaves a really nice finish on the surface of the material though. 

The rounded edge was created with a bit of free hand filing while it was rotating. Don't have many photos of the process, all my time was spent concentrating on not ruining it.

So to cast them in resin a little silicon mould had to be made, 

(the pills were made in two parts as they are eventually going to be different colours, so both ends clear and coloured can be left to set together), two moulds in one

The silicon looks so awful because the while part, which was the RTV that was poured in before the catalyst was added, poured back out off of the side of the jug... brilliant...

Hopefully it should still work the same though, if not, lesson learned!