Customer Reviews

Skullduggery Eyewitness Kit Fossilworks Casting Kit

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Although the plastic tray seemed pretty lightweight and flimsy when I first opened the box, I have to say that I've really gotten my money's worth out of it. I've used this mold at least 30 or 40 times over the past year or so, and it's holding up great. I teach a summer school class on dinosaurs and fossils, and I use this kit as one of our activities to demonstrate mold/cast fossil formation. I make the plaster fossils, then give them to the children to paint and take home. They love it. I haven't actually opened the baggie of plaster that came with the set because it's far too small for the quantity of casts that I make. I've been using plaster of paris and mixing in a little bit of powdered LaHabra stucco color (available in a variety of colors) to tint the plaster, and it really turns out nice.

This was just a plastic tray with some holes in it to pour the plaster of paris into. It came with some paint and a paintbrush, but really there is not much to this kit. The book that came with it did not really seem to go with the fossils that we made.

I bought this thinking it had somewhat durable molds to make plaster casts of fossils. The molds are cheap plastic and though it did make a decent cast it wasn't worth the money in my opinion.

Great adventure toy... children are given everything they need to create a three dimensional replica of a fossilized shark tooth and other fossils. The younger kids will need a little guidance, and over 8 can finish the project alone. You end up with a very realistic fossil shark tooth.