Good Evening Folks!
sorry, it's been a quiet week, in true fashion returning to my 9-5 job killed every creative cell in my body... I still worked on some small tasks but nothing major, most of the work was done by Karen who worked diligently to sand the smaller parts we intend to direct cast.
we checked the new neck part on gwyn and it looked great!
as well as a few content appropriate snacks
we did hash out a new duct tape dummy for Gwyn we may have overstuffed it but it will be workable!
the rest of the week Karen as I said sanded and filled away:
we only did a very light pass to deepen the detail lines and take the worse offenses away on the chest as we intended to do a waste mold
Friday came thankfully and I got my spark back so I dove in and got straight into setting up the waste mold after the discussion about the lower detail from the pants being separate I sawed off the detail and extended with some polymer clay as it is a waste mold it didn't need to be A grade perfect just close I made a base mount for the part with EVA Foam to work on and act as a spill for the silicone
once I was happy with the extension I began applying my silicone in the following qty/order (i will have a full video describing my process for anyone interested by the end of the month)
100ml Silicone Brushed Detail Layer
100ml Silicone Brushed
150ml Silicone (Thickened) Troweled
150ml Silicone (Thickened) Troweled
100ml Silicone (Thickened) Troweled
100ml Silicone Brushed
100ml Silicone Brushed
I then applied 3 layers deep worth of Plaster Bandage and let it set up
the mold came out great after a little cleanup and clipping to secure things it was good to go
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Really really pleased how it came out for a waste mold part the process was actually a lot more economical than I had presumed
my calculations had it at:
EVA £5.00
Glue £2.00
Sticks £0.50
Cups £0.60
bandages £5.00
Silicone £8.72
Total £21.82
Personally, I think this is ENTIRELY worth it for the hours saved, it took me all in about 5-6 working hours (not counting curing times etc however in that time I could not have made as much progress as I did after part came out within 4 hours of the pull I was able to resurface the join marks re-establish the detail lines over the fills, sand one top half down removing 90% of the striations and I was able to begin detail sculpting on the detail lines .. I cannot stress how much of a pain this would be to sand into the 3D Master
this, in my opinion, has taken an average-good master 3D and taken it to the next level (personally anyway) in a very time efficient way!
sculpting detail lines by hand in Resin is a Breeze!
Comparing sides right side the raw finish and the left the sculpted detail lines
SO excited to progress further!!