In the past I've stayed away from sculpting my own stuff. In the Star Wars world, someone has always done it better than I would have already, and I'd rather just buy something than spend hundreds of hours on a not-quite-round wheel of my own.
But Firefly changes that... there really isn't much out there in the way of props, particularly from Serenity.
For Dragoncon, I made a Jayne costume from the movie. With it came his arsenal.
The pistol seemed to be a good thing to try making a mold of. Small. Complicated enough to be interesting but not overly so. And my home grown one came out pretty well.
it's an Airsoft pistol with extra parts built up out of plumbers epoxy, bondo, scrap plastic, screws, some spare change (no, really - the discs on the sides are dimes!), bits of paint brushes, and whatever else worked.
Not perfect, but not bad either.
I posted all of my failures in my blog should anyone want to see me waste around $100 worth of resin...
http://tk7602.livejournal.com/924254.html
But, eventually, after learning all sorts of things about where to put your pour holes, how tightly to clamp the pieces together, what angle to pour at, etc... I got one!
I ended up with 4 that are good enough that I can clean them up and sell them to anyone that may want one. I've got a 5th that I'm not 100% convinced is salvageable, but I'm going to try.
Once I get the error ones cleaned up I'll post 'em up cheap in the junkyard. I'm nowhere near talented enough to try to do a bunch of them, but I'm all happy that I successfully made a copy of my airsoft buildup!
But Firefly changes that... there really isn't much out there in the way of props, particularly from Serenity.
For Dragoncon, I made a Jayne costume from the movie. With it came his arsenal.
The pistol seemed to be a good thing to try making a mold of. Small. Complicated enough to be interesting but not overly so. And my home grown one came out pretty well.
it's an Airsoft pistol with extra parts built up out of plumbers epoxy, bondo, scrap plastic, screws, some spare change (no, really - the discs on the sides are dimes!), bits of paint brushes, and whatever else worked.
Not perfect, but not bad either.
I posted all of my failures in my blog should anyone want to see me waste around $100 worth of resin...
http://tk7602.livejournal.com/924254.html
But, eventually, after learning all sorts of things about where to put your pour holes, how tightly to clamp the pieces together, what angle to pour at, etc... I got one!
I ended up with 4 that are good enough that I can clean them up and sell them to anyone that may want one. I've got a 5th that I'm not 100% convinced is salvageable, but I'm going to try.
Once I get the error ones cleaned up I'll post 'em up cheap in the junkyard. I'm nowhere near talented enough to try to do a bunch of them, but I'm all happy that I successfully made a copy of my airsoft buildup!
