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Casting With Water-Clear Resins This was a fun little project inspired by a Poly Optic resin piece I saw in an old Polytek mold manual. The description in the manual didn't really offer instructions, but from what I could gather, the hand print was made with PolyOptic 1411 and PlatSil 71-10 silicone. So the other night I set out to make my own version of this sculpture. To begin, I molded my hand with Accucast 590 palm down on a board. Since I really didn't need the back of the hand I just focused on getting a good palm print....