INCOMING! - Flexible Fantasy Sport field - Flexible Board

Pug · Post by **Pug** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:33 pm

Hi all,

Currently (inbetween cast Pot-Plants and Rigid Resin Boards!!) experimenting in making a version of the boards in flexible poly-u foam resin.

The first initial trial segment in raw form is great (Gonna do one for myself regardless for tourni events!) foam set feels like calk board but retains the detail of the rigid boards in similarity.

Current spray and flex tests using a generic car plastic blacking spray and a brown "Plasti-Kote" spray have performed very well. With severe flexing of the trial board the paint did not crack, the only point to make is that the next time I spray one I will fix it to a round surface so that deep crease areas are flexed and opened so that the spray will hit that as well.

Current experimentation will include resin pigment colouration of the raw resin and with "Pre-Flocked" effect. As in the raw resin is pigmented to either a brown underlaying colour or a gark green and a FLock added to the moulding proccess to bind straight in with it to give a ready done board. I ain't painting the lines on it!!

Anyway,

If pigmented to a colour and you didn't want it to be flocked etc and used straight from mould with marker lines painted on by yourselves what colour would it be. Brown , Green (Shade?), Grey/blue (to match granite effect already there) ???

Trial section will roll up like thick leather. Its going to be great for sticking in a rucsack to go down the club with rather than wedging in the standard board for use.

Initially it will be the two parter as a set...if it goes ahead and the resin/pigment/material costs look OK.
I may even stretch to forking out the £70 in raw molding rubber to cast a full board....maybe....doubtful, there must be a major interest to consider this.

Right your thoughts now, I've still got Pot-Plants to cast!!

duttydave · Post by **duttydave** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:55 am

It sounds like something I'd be interested in but would like to see the finished prototype.

Sounds good though mate.

Magictobe · Post by **Magictobe** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:20 am

It does sound good (in a way that foldable pitches would make a sound)

Keep us informed how it goes!!

bjorn9486 · Post by **bjorn9486** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:30 pm

Would love to see a flex board; could you post pics?

Pug · Post by **Pug** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:45 pm

I will try and get some pics of the demo sections up later . not much to show but i'll get some flexing images of them. still in trial at the moment . trying to work out best method for even spread of resin in the mould

swntzu · Post by **swntzu** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:11 pm

This sounds like a really good idea. I might be interested depending on how the demo stuff looks.

Pug · Post by **Pug** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:19 pm

Had a break from casting and Im off down the Club for a little bit. Going to wave the trial section around under the noses of the BB players get so feed back from them lot.

Picks later.