18 | Research zine & Coffee soil
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This week I will be contacting people who are working in the modeling world, like architects, Warhammer gamers or artists to ask how they would like to receive the information of making a bioplastic board and replacing the chemical products that they are using now with more environmentally friendly products to make any scenery they want with these recipes and examples. So that I can focus next week on how to make my project 'remakable.' Besides that I will be handing in the first draft of my research zine. I will also make coffee ground that looks like soil to get rid of the white spaces I still have in my landscape.
Normally to make 'fake dirt' for modeling, sand and a lot of sand is used. The sand is mixed with the glue so that it can be modeled in whatever form. Of course glue is not an environmentally friendly ingredient, so I am not using this today and I am looking for another option to give something a more clay structure.
I saw this coffee composite recipe on Materiom and it looked kinda cool to me but I didn't had alginate in my house so I decided to still follow the recipe but without the alginate and just see what would come out. I also had no idea what I wanted to do with it once it was finished.
I let it sit for about 3 hours and then I kind of pressed it on the mountains. It felt like clay structure.
When it was still drying I spread the coffee ground over the white surfaces of the mountains and pressed it against it to cover it.
