Early Attempts at Mushroom Casting with Aluminum

Casting a couple of mushrooms with molten aluminum. These are my early attempts at doing this and while I made a few errors, they came out looking pretty cool. The main issue I had was getting the plaster dry enough to prevent steam from coming up through the aluminum and ruining the cast. I now have a much better drying method which I used for the mushroom cast in the other mushroom casting video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=F9UwQ6MR00o See all of the finished mushroom casts at http://anthillart.com/mushrooms