I’ve been collecting enamel pins for a couple of years now, and sometimes I want something that is either too niche to already exist or is related to an uninvolved party’s copyright, or both.
To get around this I’ve dabbled in DIY pins before, hand-etching acrylic panes to use as molds for solder—don’t try this at home unless you know what you’re doing—as well as 3D painting onto flat bases, but both methods take forever, and the results have always been pretty ugly unrefined. I’ve recently started experimenting with 3D-printing and potentially combining it with silicone casting (don’t want to spend 50 bucks every time I want to try a new color or want to gift one).
Of course, my favorite horse bot has been on my To-DIY-list for a while, so I thought why not use this as an opportunity to test some new sizes and depths with the material.



![[Description] a collage of horse figurines in various colors, from a red to a turquoise to a green. Each image is on a separate layer [Text]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/da62d974222a138312e4d5b9468530ee/3b136d0972b7cfc8-ce/s500x750/a840d9092dda35f9f86313f46cacd374fd707ce7.png)












