The past few weeks I have been pondering over a new cache and a way to hide/blend it into the surroundings, and after I had already done two unusual ones for my 'Three R's; Recycle, Reduce, Reuse' caches, I managed to complete a local cache, Gargantuan, and I felt I had to try and come up with something half as good again.
During the past week I have been trying to set up a multi cache with hopefully a bit of a difference, I won't let on at the moment what it is, but I hope the Bonus cache will be an eye opener!
Now, we received a polystyrene box at home the other day and I was about to throw it out when I suddenly thought, I can make use of this. So here goes ...
Here is a list of the things I needed;
First I had to glue two pieces of flat polystyrene together to make it thicker, it needs to be deeper than the cap and bottle neck. Next, while the glue dries, I cut the neck of the bottle off and trimmed it. Then I put a small piece of cling film over the base of the neck to stop any filler entering the cap/cache area.
Once the glue was dry on the polystyrene block, I scratched out the centre area to make a hollow, making sure the bottle neck with the cap on, was almost below the top edge. I then rolled some cling film into a sausage shape first, then wrapped it around the thread of the neck, keeping the lip below the thread clear to help secure it in the filler.
Once I had finished making a nice, odd shaped hollow, ensuring I didn't go through the other side, I mixed up a batch of filler with water, then the filler was slowly poured into the mould, just enough to sit the bottle neck slightly higher than the top. The bottle neck was then placed in and the remainder of the filler was then poured in up to the top level of the polystyrene.
Once the filler was set over night, the whole thing was carefully removed from the mould and left to dry out further.
When the filler was completely dry, the cling film around the thread was removed and the edge of the hole was chamfered to allow chubby fingers to open/close the cap.
Now it was down to the camouflaging, this will depend on where you wish to hide the cache as to what you use, for this one I sprayed all over with Matt black, then from a greater distance a couple of different browns to allow the black to show through, doing this made it look like a piece of broken Tarmac.
My cache is now completed and ready for hiding. You could disguise it further with some moss and dirt from the area it will be hidden to help blend it in better, or before spraying, smooth out the outside to make it look like a stone.
Hope you enjoy making your caches using this method as much as I have, and good luck in hiding it!
During the past week I have been trying to set up a multi cache with hopefully a bit of a difference, I won't let on at the moment what it is, but I hope the Bonus cache will be an eye opener!
Now, we received a polystyrene box at home the other day and I was about to throw it out when I suddenly thought, I can make use of this. So here goes ...
Here is a list of the things I needed;
- Plastic bottle with cap
- Polystyrene
- Cling film
- Pritt Stick
- Scissors
- Filler - I've used the wall filler type
- Water
- Scraper
- Spray paints for camouflage
First I had to glue two pieces of flat polystyrene together to make it thicker, it needs to be deeper than the cap and bottle neck. Next, while the glue dries, I cut the neck of the bottle off and trimmed it. Then I put a small piece of cling film over the base of the neck to stop any filler entering the cap/cache area.
Once the glue was dry on the polystyrene block, I scratched out the centre area to make a hollow, making sure the bottle neck with the cap on, was almost below the top edge. I then rolled some cling film into a sausage shape first, then wrapped it around the thread of the neck, keeping the lip below the thread clear to help secure it in the filler.
Once I had finished making a nice, odd shaped hollow, ensuring I didn't go through the other side, I mixed up a batch of filler with water, then the filler was slowly poured into the mould, just enough to sit the bottle neck slightly higher than the top. The bottle neck was then placed in and the remainder of the filler was then poured in up to the top level of the polystyrene.
Once the filler was set over night, the whole thing was carefully removed from the mould and left to dry out further.
When the filler was completely dry, the cling film around the thread was removed and the edge of the hole was chamfered to allow chubby fingers to open/close the cap.
Now it was down to the camouflaging, this will depend on where you wish to hide the cache as to what you use, for this one I sprayed all over with Matt black, then from a greater distance a couple of different browns to allow the black to show through, doing this made it look like a piece of broken Tarmac.
My cache is now completed and ready for hiding. You could disguise it further with some moss and dirt from the area it will be hidden to help blend it in better, or before spraying, smooth out the outside to make it look like a stone.
Hope you enjoy making your caches using this method as much as I have, and good luck in hiding it!
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