Sedulous Studios
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I've pulled four copies of the khajiit mask so far. One is mine, the second goes to a friend who's in my Skyrim D*C group (and also staying with me at D*C--all five of us in the room are doing Skyrim costumes, three of which are khajiit!) and is not yet finished, the third went to another friend, and the fourth I made extra thick. It's my new master copy, for when I need to make a new mold given how many people who see this thing apparently want one. Another one has been paid for already and I just need to cast it. The second one I did we made too thin, so I needed to either redo it or fix it. We were able to brush on some thickened Dragon Skin while holding it just so and thus make it so it will be useable, but I still need to make it thicker and fill in a ton of bubbles. Since having it in the mold means I can't be brushing another copy into the mold at the same time, and for another reason I decided to make a support shell I could set the castings into.
The other reason (which is really the primary reason) was that I need to be able to make supportive shells for most of the castings (unfortunately the shells won't fit on the faces of bigger guys with wider faces, as the mask was sculpted around my face). However, because the overall shape is narrower toward the back of the head, I needed to make a support that's split down the middle of the face so I can actually remove the shell without distorting it. So a two-part support was in order, ideally one that I could actually lift and rotate around (the heavy mold is hard for me to move).
I had read about using fleece with polyester resin for speaker surrounds. I don't like polyester resin, but thought I would test because hey, who knows, it might work with my Onyx. And guess what--it does!
Fleece stitched (and stapled, but I wouldn't do that again) on over a ridge of aluminum foil as a separator between the halves:
Covered with resin, before trimming the excess and splitting it open:
Terrible photo of the master copy next to the support shell with that second casting in it:
The other reason (which is really the primary reason) was that I need to be able to make supportive shells for most of the castings (unfortunately the shells won't fit on the faces of bigger guys with wider faces, as the mask was sculpted around my face). However, because the overall shape is narrower toward the back of the head, I needed to make a support that's split down the middle of the face so I can actually remove the shell without distorting it. So a two-part support was in order, ideally one that I could actually lift and rotate around (the heavy mold is hard for me to move).
I had read about using fleece with polyester resin for speaker surrounds. I don't like polyester resin, but thought I would test because hey, who knows, it might work with my Onyx. And guess what--it does!
Fleece stitched (and stapled, but I wouldn't do that again) on over a ridge of aluminum foil as a separator between the halves:
Covered with resin, before trimming the excess and splitting it open:
Terrible photo of the master copy next to the support shell with that second casting in it:
