Dullam-Causey car update both cars

Here are a few steps on the Kilmer car hubcaps. positive piece (wheel cover ),
then a snad mold is made . only can pull one piece per mold.

aluminum is melted and poured into mold. out comes a beutiful extreamly serious piece of armor for the wheel covers.

then the piece is metal finished (pictures not yet avalable) this will be made into a satin finish matt
all metal parts will have no paint on them .

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The Bridging vehicle now has bronze tinted windows.





Here is the very first shot of this cowl. This is the third cowl, if you count the small bust. This is foam latex.

Hot damn you guys never cease to amaze me!

HOLY PROGRESS SHOTS BATMAN!

I've always prefered the Tumbler but the work you both are doing on both of these cars is incredible. Watching your progress, especially with these new wheels, I'm coming around to really admiring the Kilmer car.

While I eagerly await photos of the finished projects, these progress photos give us all some idea of the hard work and incredible talent you both posses.

Keep up the wonderful work.

Ted.

Doody, I always see you posting "Dullam-Causey" are these cars for personal use, a client, what?

Are you building a Batman museum?

If so, I'd visit. Awesome stuff.

I am amazed by both the your truly phenomenal level of craftsmanship and dedication to a project, but also the HUGE brass balls you guys have for taking on such enormous and complicated projects.

I'm sure I speak for than myself when I say that the work the two of you do sets the gold standard for many of us.

Thanks much all.

These cars are for ourselves. no clients. Client stuff is mostly just heads/busts.

Bob C.'s car is the Forever, Mine(Bob D.) is the tumbler.
The big metal box you see over the top of the car is the oven I use to bake foam latex in. And also high-temp epoxy parts. Much more stuff comin.

The fact that they are for you guys just makes it so much cooler!

I myself don't collect props like busts, even though I have sculpted somewhere around
15 or so, I don't even own one copy of one. I lean towards stuff that is more real than,
non functional. Nothing wrong with the other way, it's just my preference.

Doody,

I have a fast metal casting question for you. Are you making a Wax casting of your Hub than then encasing that in the sand, then melting out the wax before you cast?

I'm curious about this because I have a few Back to the Future parts which could benefit from this method...

-Gary

Great work, guys! Keep us posted.

So are you guys self taught or were you apprenticed by an FX shop?

Is the Tumbler a working vehicle or a static display?

By FAR the most impressive thing I've ever seen someone build... I can't wait for the first full tumbler shot, Bob!

Some answers: We have no training. self-taught. Everything is self taught, not much
instruction here in the midwest for this sort of thing.

Yes Tumbler is funchtional, not a static display. I like things for my own collection that
do something.

Not wax, no undercuts. lost mold method though.

thanks all for such kind comps. More pics and mpegs. check out the 95 car mpegs at:
The Bobs place

very cool, to cast those is very impressive.

Sweet!!!

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Some answers: We have no training. self-taught. Everything is self taught, not much
instruction here in the midwest for this sort of thing.
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Well I&#39;m guessing then you learnt it all from books. Any good reads that you could recommend?

No books either. I used to buy starlog mag years ago. Some makeup stuff in there once in a while. but not
really this type of stuff.

Here&#39;s what I think about inst. stuff. If you follow someone&#39;s cookbook recipe for something then often,
you recite it parrot-style. Now if something changes, or materials change, or the project doesn&#39;t fit neatly into the recipe you&#39;re hosed. On the other hand if you grow into this learning to reason things out, you are used to thinking on your own, and never need anyone to hold your hand through a project.
Think of it like a math class. You learn to do differentials (differential calculus) by doing them over, and over. Now they start throwing story problems at you, and suddenly it&#39;s a whole lot tougher. You suddenly are forced to think on your own. Every project is different. Every project requires different thinking, and always thinking out of the box.

You learnt to work with molten aluminium by trial and error? Sounds dangerous.

Alrighty, no wax.... Using a cast resin part and then burning it out?

-Gary