An honest comparison of epoxy resin and eco-friendly alternatives like Ecrylimer Creator. Fumes, cost, safety, and what's actually right for your making practice. Australian makers read this first.

There's a piece sitting in the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra that most visitors would assume was made from fibreglass, or resin, or some specialised material shipped in from overseas. Part of it is fibreglass. But the material that made it possible — the compound that created the landscape base and the pattern surface for the entire sculptural form — is Ecrylimer. An eco casting compound invented and manufactured in Australia. This is the story of how our materi