Making the unit look like it was chipped out of ice was a challenge, first I had to figure out a way of emulating ice then I had to adapt it to the case. At this point I decided to make a rough model of the design so I made a box from clear acrylic and attacked it with a whole lot of modeling clay so I could get a rough idea of what it would look like. The finished model looked more like the Flintstone’s TV than ice so I wisely scrapped the model and decided to wing it. I had been discussing this idea with my friend Kyle at south bay Plastics who is the most knowledgeable person I know when it comes to plastic’s. We had decided the best way to accomplish the idea was to form it out of clear casting resin, The next obstacle was finding a way to make it look like ice. We spent the next week or so experimenting with several ways of creating ice, eventually was came up with the crumpled foil method.
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