glassing... and screwing up...

really messup up wrapping of the rails. gonna be messy to clean up...

another view of the mistake! eeee
two containers at top of pic show how much resin got waisted by added too much catalyst. i've read many other posts now of guys doing this and have found tips on preventing this. actually i'm psyched to do the top layer now that i have some experience and further knowledge on how to do this.
finished bottom. like i said, i like how the flat part (other than the rails) turned out adn i really like the colors
shaping shack. sorry melissa...not sure how you put up with this
mixing color!
cloth ready to get glassed on!
list of what to do. make lists. they help, but they don't prevent certain disasters still...
glassed the bottom of the board yesterday... i was super nervous, but excited. mixed up the colors and added a bit extra catalyst bc it was 68 in our apt and not 78, which i'd read is the ideal temp. well, turns out i added a bit too much catalyst and it started gelling after about 10 to 15 minutes (who knows i was panicing and trying to do it all as fast as possible, but neatly), and ideally you want it to start gelling in 30 minutes. anyways, i got the flat glassed nicely, but when i went ot get more resin out of the container to start wraping hte rails, it was already gelling. the resin on the cloth wasn't yet as it was spread out- i visually saw how resin will gel quicker when in a large volume, rather than when spread out in smaller volume- a unique property of it. so i mixed up some other resin i had set aside in case this did happen and tried to frantically wrap the cloth everywhere. i think every curse word was said in the this process, whether it was said in my head, under my breath, out load and really out loud. i was seriously panicking and sweating at this point. everything was getting sticky adn harder to work with by the second. in one of my extra panic batches of resin i mixed up i added way too much resin hastily and saw that in fact, resin can start smokign if you add too much catalyst. when i got around to the tail end, the white cloth, it was pretty ugly. i did my best and got whatever i could wrapped as well as possible. i'll have to put alot mroe effort into it to clean it up. I posted pics and my scenario on a diy shaper site to get some feedback on what to do next and how to make the best of it. in my main tutorial i'm using in doing this process, it states "probably the worst thing that can happen is for hte resin to start gelling as you wrap the rails". well then, i experienced the worst thing that can happen, adn i'll deal with it. can't get any worse right? hope so.
on a high note, i like how the colors turned out adn blending them went smoother than expected also.