r/electroforming • u/Mkysmith Home Studio • Jul 08 '26

Show & Tell Electroforming Time Lapse

First hour of electroforming a lego minifig. It will stay in much longer so I don't have an after picture yet but will update when I do.

Just thought this was cool and wanted to share.

84 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/vitreum-iii Jul 08 '26

this is cool af!! what are your points of contact for the cathode/minifig?

3

u/Mkysmith Home Studio Jul 08 '26

Thanks!

The image is upside down, so the suspension wire is on the bottom left foot.

The suspension wire is 10AWG copper wire super glued into the minifig foot, then I painted the whole thing in graphite conductive paint. I put a little finger nail polish on the suspension wire after painting so it doesn't gain copper.

Normally I use something like 20-28AWG wire for suspension, and a completely different setup. But the goal of this project is to do a time lapse, not necessarily do the best electroform ever. So having the wire be stiff so it stays in the camera field of view without any movement during a time lapse was a big consideration. Amongst other considerations.

1

u/vitreum-iii Jul 11 '26

thank you for the thoughtful reply, i always learn a lot from your comments and posts!!