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| not bad. i'm ok with it. the two halve will need some work to meet cleanly. but hey |
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| mold had to break to free the ghosty |
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| this is an epoxy, wood floor, milled fiberglass slush . the fibers i used were 1/8" and 1/4" it is strong enough |
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| i scored the back of the mold to facilitate breakage |
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| mold turned out ok. a few air bubbles that mussed some details but pretty good. let these dry a few days, a few coats of spray acrylic, a couple of thin coats of wax, boom :resin/fiberglass layup time |
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| pulling out his cold foam n foil heart |
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| this half had the least under cuts and is fairly clean. |
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| the finished clay poe |
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| the arrow will stick out the back |
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| paper flanges covered in wax to make a 2 part mold. the clay original will be destroyed. yikes |
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| he's about 6 inches tall as is |
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| the plaster will be thick enough to be sturdy and not break when handling but not too thick so it can't be easily destroyed to extract the fiberglass shell. great care has to be taken to make sure the plaster is properly sealed and has a release agent that isn't too thick to obscure details is applied i'm only going a few fiberglass layers thick so it will be slightly flexible after the 8 hours set up time. it will harden more over the following days. it needs to be thin to read as cloth to scale for the diorama. |
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| ok. so . i'm gonna make some legend of zelda dioramas and sell them on ebay. like you do |
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| this is a big Poe in the rough. i'll make a mold and make a really thin fiberglass version of his floating ghostly cloth. the small hole at the bottom is where the arrow from Link will pass through.i'll clean up the "shockwave" wrinkles around the entry point. |
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| the only progress shot. note that the skirt was made later with fiberglass |
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| i did this back in 2007(?) for a coworker . super sculpey mixed media etc. |
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| i'm hoping my skills have improved since then |
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| the apron is paper and gel medium. and yes, you can see up her skirt |
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| a coworker started selling aceo's on ebay. these are fun to make . yes i'm justifying spacecat paintings the size of baseball cards... |
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| hold me. i did all of these in 7 hours. i worked on them jointly , laid out end to end on a big sheet of watercolor paper. about an hour and a half each of actual painting with the remainder of that time being priming paper, sketching ideas, etc. i even made an aceo template |
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| tiny paintin' is not easy. i haven't used brushes so small in i don't know when. i'm hoping the next batch we'll be slightly more polished. |
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| sorry |
