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In South Africa, this insect is known as a Koringkriek or a Parktown prawn, much hated by the female section of the population.
This is actually my second cast insect display. My first one follows on this one and has less photos because I was slack.

I cast this type of insect by first sprueing it up with a heavy central sprue of about 8 mm in diameter.
All the legs get two 2 mm thick sprues and I burn out at 720°C and cast at 500°C.

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Once the resin has cured, I grind the box down on my gem cutting machine.
Handy to have, but not utterly necessary to do a good job..

Preparing the lid for gluing.
I glue masking tape down and then trace the outline of the box on the tape.

Then I cut away the section where the glue must make contact.

I use the minimum amount of glue so there is less clean up.
Here I am shining a UV light on the glue. It takes about 30 minutes for it to cure.
It is not the absolute best UV light to use but it stumbles along and eventually gets the job done.

Then I cut a piece of Delrin that fits exactly into the box.

Then the base, which is made from a piece of recycled wood called Rhodesian teak.

Now I position the insect, ( who is known as Boris the Avenger, by the way) and I drill 0.5 mm holed by Boris' feet . Then I thread a thin piece of stainless steel wire over the toes and through the Delrin.  I tie it on the under side and this holds Boris firmly in place.

I need a chain around the box to keep visitors to Boris away, like they do in Hollywood for the movie stars.

Then I make four gate posts that I top with some colored glass that I cut to a point on afore mentioned gem cutting machine.

Just testing for the look.
Can't look to girly, because Boris is a mean type of insect.

All the the posts and chain links are finished.

I use a 3 volt LED that I modified out of those strips one can buy for sticking in the house and discos and other low light places.

The problem with that LED was that is was to blue/white for my taste
So I cut a small piece of pale yellow cubic zirconia that I had lying around.
The yellow lowered the temperature of the light a bit, making everything look less harsh.

Then I sealed it into a tube that will be fitted into the box like a miniature lamp post.

Now I make the battery compartment. I mill out enough space for two penlight batteries in series. The two brass inserts are threaded and will hold the battery cover in place.

The on/off switch has always been a mission to make in previous projects. I finally came up with a design that hit rock bottom for simplicity. The screw turns in and then closes the circuit. It does this by pushing the batteries together. When the circuit is open, the batteries are lying loose in their compartments, completely isolated.
The only thing one must be careful for is that they don't leak, so they good for five years or so.

Matching decorative inserts for the other side.

When the light was switched on it shone to much out of the top.

So I put a cover on the outside of the box.
The next display that I am going to build will have the cover built into the lamp post.

I wanted to see which angle and voltage gave me the best light and shadows.

This is such a bad ass picture of a bad ass insect.     I just love ol' Boris' spikes.

He also looks bad ass from the front.  I use liver of sulfur to make him black.
Then I polish certain sections back to make them more silver.
He is also dipped in a protective coating to stop color change and tarnishing.

Setting Boris up.

Detail shot.

I added a plate under the wood base and I was going to light it up with leds, but when I tested it out it looked too glitzy and much more classy dark.

I drilled two 2 mm holes on opposite sides at the base of the glass box.
The screws go through the glass and into the Delrin, and holds the box firmly in its place.

I drilled two 2 mm holes on opposite sides at the base of the glass box.
The screws go through the glass and into the Delrin, and holds the box firmly in its place.

This is a  Southern-African-Spitting-Scorpion-(Parabuthus-transvaalicus)
This was actually my first one that I cast.

I also made the bottom like the other base.

Wiring leading to the light post.

On the display base.

Looks mean, though.

The real boitjie.

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