Material Guide
An explanation on the unique and strong materials we offer for castings
Fibreglass
This is an incredibly strong material and extremely lightweight, so hanging your casting is as easy as hanging a picture. This is our most affordable option for body castings. The casting is coloured topically with professional and delicate colours to achieve a variety of faux metal looks or polished finishes depending on your final colour choice. Fibreglass is only available for Body Castings.
Fibreglass castings take 9-12 weeks to create and deliver.
Taking care of your fibreglass casting:
- Always keep your casting away from direct sunlight as this will fade the colour of the final piece.
- Never use any cleaning products when dusting the casting, only use a soft lint free cloth to keep it clean.
Cold Cast Metal
This is our most popular material choice due to the finish provided from the material. This material is made from a mix of resin with real metals; copper, bronze, aluminium, iron or brass.
This creates a realistic metal finish that can be aged or polished to look and feel like real metal. because the colour comes from the metal within the casting, these castings can be handled much more and touched.
Cold cast metal is available for body castings, baby castings, pet castings & holding hand castings. The metal content makes the holding hand castings quite heavy with a beautiful weight due to the mass of material. However whilst the body castings are a little heavier than fibreglass they are not as heavy as the hand castings.
Cold Cast castings take 13-16 weeks to create and deliver.
Taking care of your cold metal casting:
- Always keep your casting away from direct sunlight as this will fade the colour of the final piece.
- Never use any cleaning products when dusting the casting, only use a soft lint free cloth to keep it clean.
Foundry Bronze
Our most luxury product with a stunning array of patina possibilities. Foundry Bronze baby, pet or hand castings have an incredible weight and strength. Foundry Bronze is the strongest material we offer and can be used indoors or outdoors.
Foundry Bronze castings take 9 - 14 weeks to create and deliver.
Taking care of your bronze casting:
- Never use any cleaning products when dusting the casting, only use a soft lint free cloth to keep it clean.