Re: Finished! Salacious Crumb Puppet - Build Thread
would you think about a casting material which wont rotten with the years? I think thats a major problem with normal latex stuff. Remember the stuff from Illusive Concepts.
Thanks again for your compliments & questions! While it is likely possible to create a similar result with another casting material, I will be sticking to latex for the time being. I'll use nearly a gallon of latex per puppet, and it helps me keep the cost down, and get a result that is very close the the original (which was cast in latex), a result that would be very difficult, if not impossible, using another material. I figure I should be able to get at least a good 10 years out of this puppet - I imagine if I were to just let it sit as a display piece, and keep it out of direct sunlight it could last many more than that. Its very hard to say how long one of these puppets might last, as I have not really had experience with a latex prop of this kind. I can tell you that latex is used in many, many professional & licensed props & toys (Even the new little
Disney Salacious), and while they will break down over time, they generally live a nice full life before they get there.
I would also like to know if you have compared your version with the Sideshow Lifesize version. Are there any differences in scale? And again...really fantastic work.
I have not yet had mine next to a Sideshow salacious. I am pretty confident with the scale of mine though. I printed out a full sized outline from on a picture of the original, and lined my parts up to it through the build. I also had quite a few pictures of people standing next to the original puppet including the one above in
post #28 (which shows the scale of mine as well as that of the original). While the sideshow statue was sculpted by the original sculptor, which is really flipping cool, but I think they tried to make him look more realistic and lifelike, and there were a number of issues with it that caused me to shy away from it as a reference source. I have no real sculpting experience, and certainly no reason to brag as mine has issues with it as well, but I do feel it is a bit "truer" to the original puppet than the sideshow statue is.. but I'm sure im a little biased :angel