Wrapped up this project a little while ago and thought I would post it.
Recreated the SKYFALL sign on Bond's house from the movie. I had a couple of research images that showed the actual prop being handled.
The piece is 36" wide and 11" tall. To figure out the exact dimensions, I found a guy online who has the original sign from the movie attached to his house. His house happens to be made of brick. He lives in the UK, so bricks there are a standard size of 8"x2.25". So, using photoshop I was able to cut and paste the bricks to figure out exactly how big it was. For depth, I went with 1", which looked like the one from the gallery.
Started by printing the sign at full scale. I used extruded foam to carve the stone look, spritzing it with acetone and sanding it to give it a more coarse look.
Then it was time to box it up and pour the silicone.
It took almost two gallons of silicone to pour it. That's a mess of silicone. I used Mold Max 30.
The first two pulls were of UltraCal. It turned out great, but weighed almost 40 pounds. I had even sunk a 3/4" sheet of ply and mixed in some cabofil to help lighten it. Unfortunately, during the full cure phase, they cracked apart and were lost.
My next attempt was with fiberglas. I have a bad reaction to the smell, so I cast it outside and it just kicked so quickly that there were many pock makes and voids. It was my first attempt with this size of a fiberglas piece.
So recently I did a job using Smooth-On's Apoxa-Cast and Apoxie-mite and I had no reaction to the smell. So I thought I'd give it a try and I managed to pull two perfect pieces out.
They ended up weighing less than 4 pounds! Now just time for some finish paint and I can hang it up.
Recreated the SKYFALL sign on Bond's house from the movie. I had a couple of research images that showed the actual prop being handled.
The piece is 36" wide and 11" tall. To figure out the exact dimensions, I found a guy online who has the original sign from the movie attached to his house. His house happens to be made of brick. He lives in the UK, so bricks there are a standard size of 8"x2.25". So, using photoshop I was able to cut and paste the bricks to figure out exactly how big it was. For depth, I went with 1", which looked like the one from the gallery.
Started by printing the sign at full scale. I used extruded foam to carve the stone look, spritzing it with acetone and sanding it to give it a more coarse look.
Then it was time to box it up and pour the silicone.
It took almost two gallons of silicone to pour it. That's a mess of silicone. I used Mold Max 30.
The first two pulls were of UltraCal. It turned out great, but weighed almost 40 pounds. I had even sunk a 3/4" sheet of ply and mixed in some cabofil to help lighten it. Unfortunately, during the full cure phase, they cracked apart and were lost.
My next attempt was with fiberglas. I have a bad reaction to the smell, so I cast it outside and it just kicked so quickly that there were many pock makes and voids. It was my first attempt with this size of a fiberglas piece.
So recently I did a job using Smooth-On's Apoxa-Cast and Apoxie-mite and I had no reaction to the smell. So I thought I'd give it a try and I managed to pull two perfect pieces out.
They ended up weighing less than 4 pounds! Now just time for some finish paint and I can hang it up.
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