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Awesome work. Clearly professional stuff, if there ever was a doubt.
I've been on a Lovecraft kick for the past few years ... my skills are limited to paper props and whatever I can crudely execute via TinkerCad & Shapeways. I haven't actually tried to sculpt anything with my own two hands...
MJ
I was getting to mold the beast last night and of course I instead decided to fix a few things before.
When set onto a flat surface the sculpture feels like it tilted to the right slighty. After checking the "squareness" of the base the bottom face proved to be off on the right side by a 1/16 of an inch or so which caused the small but noticeable tilt.
To fix this a made a puddle of body filler the size of the base right next to a 1/16 thick piece of styrene which the right edge of the base would rest on. The filler would harden and give me my newly corrected and level base.
I then smeared on some more filler to fill out the edges so I could then sand it back to it's proper edge shape.
Here's all the excess filler sliced of while the glop is in it's midway "rubbery" phase.
I then sanded it it out and filled in any little holes or hard edges with red glazing putty to create a seamless fix.
Nick
Getting back into the Cthulhu project.
Here's a couple of sketches made for the tablet/ bas relief-
My first silicon mold is finished!
I love the way it looks at this stage!
Cthulhu has claimed his first victim!
Peeling off the hot glue blob that held it down to the board.
It was stuck down firmly enough that a part of the original sculpt started to pop off when pried off. Not bad though.
Building the mother mold with plasti-paste.
Mold porn!
Nick
Sorry for the wait. Got sidetracked with a costume project last month. I'm now officially back in Lovecraft country for a while.
Poured up my first resin castings tonight with much success.
Learning a lot going through this process. The casts are pretty clean over all. I used Steve Neill's baby powder trick on the first casting and I think it definitely reduced the bubbles compared to the other two. The are a couple bubbles in the silicon mold in a couple deep wrinkles but the result resin balls pop off pretty easily with an exacto.
These castings will be mainly be used for paint tests.
Next I'll try tinting some resin and see if I can get a green/black swirl effect in the actual material and might even try some translucent material. Also want to try casting in cement to get the weight and cold feel of a real stone statue.
Also want to try casting with marble dust in the resin to make it colder to the touch as well. I remember reading something about that a while back when first researching the project.
I'm looking forward to making a new mold as well. There are two areas in the tips of elbows where air bubbles are getting trapped when they try to rise to the top. Tilting the mold a little bit reduces them a good amount but it's still annoying. I desire perfect castings! After I wear out the mold with these tests, the next one will be two part with proper vent tubes in those spots.
More soon!
Nick
Love it
Looks great! Love the little plaque as well.
Can't wait to see this with a translucent effect!
Chris
They look awesome! I would love to get my hands on one of the finished products.I'm a huge fan of the Lovecraftian.
Thanks guys!
I'm just as excited to finally get this project out my brain and into reality. A few years in the making really.
Again it's cool to see that my vision of this classic character (can you call Cthulhu a character?) is connecting with others.
Nick
If you make a run of these, I'm definitely interested too. Amazing work!
agreed! amazing job, im looking foreward to the inevitable JY run!
Aw man sweet! Go all out and fill your house with these things. Maybe put them in a basement shrine thing so when you die one day long in the future and people start to clean out the house you'll freak them out!
Well, that's what I'd do...
incredible work manI totally love your vision of cthulhu and the so-famous idol from the book.
Can I ask you... are you spanish? because your bondo have spanish writing on it hahaa. I'm also spanish and I'm looking for propmakers from this country
I've travelled through Spain, married a half Cuban girl but I live in Texas. A lot of our products have Spanish on them due to our large mexican population.
This is a great build dude. Love how you got Cthulhu looking nice and fat. Eating all those humans can really build some blubber.
Nick, I'm in for one if you do a run.
Pay or trade - whatever you want to do.
Laffo.
Try casting with a bronzen powder...it would do wonders for you bust. The ratio is something like 50% of the total resin volume in powder. Afther the cast buff it up with steelwool and some shoe polish!
Been doing some paint tests trying to nail what approach to take on the statue.
The book describes the Idol's color this way-
"Totally separate and apart, its very material was a mystery; for the soapy, greenish-black stone with its golden or iridescent flecks and striations resembled nothing familiar to geology or mineralogy."
I picked up a number of variations of pre mixed acrylic greens and some glazing medium for added transparency for the faux-stone tests. I kinda have an idea how I want to approach the final finish but I thought trying some trying some stranger variations might result in happy accidents.
I think got some pretty interesting textures and effects. Lots of transparent layering is really gonna be the main trick to achieving a realistic stone feel.
One interesting note while researching real stone statues is that a lot of striations and color variations in the stone tend to hide sculptural detail.
As opposed to a statue where the color change is minimal-
Also a High gloss kills much of the sculptural detail too. I was originally going to aim for a polished Jade feel until I compared a matte/semi gloss to a high gloss finish. The gloss has a cool slick quality but the forms get lost and the errors in your sculpting really stand out. That said I'm sure I'll gloss up one of the painted test statues to see how it looks.
Next up- Painted Statues!
Nick
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