After figuring out how to construct a mould which will be used to make the plastic base we talked to Liz in metalwork and Jewellery to find out if it wold actually work because we were aware of certain restrictions such as small details not working and that we might have to angle the walls of the mould so that it can be removed from the plastic.
The best solution to making the mould is going to be to laser cut the bulk of it and then sand a 3º angle on each wall of the mould.
After measuring the radius of our medicine bottles I have prepared the files to be used for laser cutting, I have added small pads at each 90º of the circle that are designed to decompress and grip the bottle tighter than if it were just a straight face.
As we are basing the perfume on medical products we are going to create some blister packs for swallowable perfume tablets (see design context) as a design proposal as this is a modern invention and would help the brand stand out against competitors.
This will be vacuum formed with clear plastic so that the colours of the tablets will show through
We had some problems laser cutting at first with getting the right depth and also the computer was playing up a bit and not sending the files to cut, eventually we got about 30% of the things we needed.
The mould for the base, however, was too small, despite measuring it accurately
We will book another slot and try this again.
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