bishopdonmiguel
Active Member
Every Warrior needs an Eagle Mug and Grog Bottle to celebrate their victories against Cylon Tyranny.
This build is mostly just sculpture and simple molding/casting. No cool blinky lights and whatnot so adjust your expectations accordingly.
Reference shots...
The mug used by the production is a Wilton Armetale "Original" Mug. As the company still offers a version of these for sale, I will not mold or cast so I acquired some vintage stock.
I assume the eagle was a custom production sculpt, not a found item, so I needed to craft my own. I started with a basic eagle model and made alterations to approximate the characteristics seen in the screen caps, those being a thickened brow and large curved beak. My first layer was not as successful as I wanted, the beak was not large enough and the brow was too thin in areas and too thick in others, but I figured this would be an iterative process...
Second layer much better, thicker brow and larger beak...
Third layer added more to the beak and detail to feathers...
Once I was happy with the shape, decided I had make the sculpt a bit too tall so I removed feathers from the bottom and re-sculpted...
After additional alterations to feather and some cleanup and polishing, the eagle is ready for silicone...
First pull from compression mold...
A bit of gold lacquer and epoxy and we have some Colonial Eagle Mugs ready for Colonial toastings. Not a perfect replica, I'm not a trained sculptor, but I think it passes as a reasonable approximation...
For all you do, this grog's for you!...
To be continued...
This build is mostly just sculpture and simple molding/casting. No cool blinky lights and whatnot so adjust your expectations accordingly.
Reference shots...
The mug used by the production is a Wilton Armetale "Original" Mug. As the company still offers a version of these for sale, I will not mold or cast so I acquired some vintage stock.
I assume the eagle was a custom production sculpt, not a found item, so I needed to craft my own. I started with a basic eagle model and made alterations to approximate the characteristics seen in the screen caps, those being a thickened brow and large curved beak. My first layer was not as successful as I wanted, the beak was not large enough and the brow was too thin in areas and too thick in others, but I figured this would be an iterative process...
Second layer much better, thicker brow and larger beak...
Third layer added more to the beak and detail to feathers...
Once I was happy with the shape, decided I had make the sculpt a bit too tall so I removed feathers from the bottom and re-sculpted...
After additional alterations to feather and some cleanup and polishing, the eagle is ready for silicone...
First pull from compression mold...
A bit of gold lacquer and epoxy and we have some Colonial Eagle Mugs ready for Colonial toastings. Not a perfect replica, I'm not a trained sculptor, but I think it passes as a reasonable approximation...
For all you do, this grog's for you!...
To be continued...
