Ive used normal resin / casting resin / multipurpose resin for fiberglass ever since I started this hobby and never had any problems with heat or shrinkage. As you say its really cheap... always a good thing! From my experience good quality silicone moulds can take as much heat variation as the UK has to offer so it shouldnt have any problems with bog standard resin.
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XxCALIBERxX
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Oh. Very cool... I might do a small scale test first and see what the Aussie resin and silicone do! Haha.
Thankyou very much sevv! Its been a pleasure talking with a professional.
Cheers, Dave.
Thankyou very much sevv! Its been a pleasure talking with a professional.
Cheers, Dave.
Glad I could help!
Right... bigger update than last time. The helmet is 'feature complete' now, we are looking at about a week and a halfs worth of polish before... we hope
ready for moulding.
Its got a great sense of bulk and weight in person I think, balanced too. Looking forward to getting it moulded! We will be adding smaller details into this with plastic card before we mould.
Right... bigger update than last time. The helmet is 'feature complete' now, we are looking at about a week and a halfs worth of polish before... we hope
ready for moulding.
Its got a great sense of bulk and weight in person I think, balanced too. Looking forward to getting it moulded! We will be adding smaller details into this with plastic card before we mould.
Unfortunatly a pretty major set back last week with the helmet. Friday morning we realised... in a calm and graceful manner I can assure you, definatly no swearing.... that large chunks of the helmet were wrong
This ment largish reworks of the sculpt, which has put us back in our schedule... very annoying. Im very annoyed with myself I could let it happen, we just went in one direction and didnt notice the overall shape falling away from us.
So back to today, after a lot of reworking we are probably back to last Thursday now... so a day off and a weekend behind. Still, its much more accurate now. Sorry for the pics but photos taken at night even in a light kitchen never turn out well. More soon.
Whether you can tell the difference from these photos I dont know
This ment largish reworks of the sculpt, which has put us back in our schedule... very annoying. Im very annoyed with myself I could let it happen, we just went in one direction and didnt notice the overall shape falling away from us.
So back to today, after a lot of reworking we are probably back to last Thursday now... so a day off and a weekend behind. Still, its much more accurate now. Sorry for the pics but photos taken at night even in a light kitchen never turn out well. More soon.
Whether you can tell the difference from these photos I dont know
I'm sorry that I've been AWOL for so long and missed this. Not sure what I can add that hasn't already been said but I'll give it a shot - that's some truly inspirational work. Very clean with great symmetry (especially for a clay sculpt) and given the other examples of your work, it looks like you've set a very high standard for yourself. I can't wait to see some finished pieces and the first completed suit...
Very nice, sir!
Very nice, sir!
colinmon22
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still lookin good! one thing i can see you missed though is the pattern on the underside of the visor.
Cheers guys. isupernoob, thanks for pointing that out but we already know about that. Once the sculpts finished we plan on making that detail with plastic card before we mould it. Weve got a few other places card will be great for detail... those will be last. Cant wait
Yeah Boba Fett the top was slightly flat, that has been fixed now. Someone over on the rpf pointed out a detail we had missed... an inny bit (technical term!) on the back. Ive was putting that in last night, which in turn made me realise the back right wasnt as bulky, roundededed as the back left. You could only tell if you looked straight down from above on the helmet, which lets face it... hardly anyone will... but still it needed to be fixed.
Adding a small detail turned into not a major, but an evenings work. Never ends
Yeah Boba Fett the top was slightly flat, that has been fixed now. Someone over on the rpf pointed out a detail we had missed... an inny bit (technical term!
) on the back. Ive was putting that in last night, which in turn made me realise the back right wasnt as bulky, roundededed as the back left. You could only tell if you looked straight down from above on the helmet, which lets face it... hardly anyone will... but still it needed to be fixed.Adding a small detail turned into not a major, but an evenings work. Never ends
XxCALIBERxX
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Hey Sevv! Looking very nice indeed! can'r wait to see it finished.
My clay just came in by the way, i got 2 kilo's of Chavant hard clay NSP. wondeful stuff, and great for carving into, i am just using it to fine up some armor and helmet details at the moment. but the possibiblities are endless with that stuff!
Cheers, Dave.
My clay just came in by the way, i got 2 kilo's of Chavant hard clay NSP. wondeful stuff, and great for carving into, i am just using it to fine up some armor and helmet details at the moment. but the possibiblities are endless with that stuff!
Cheers, Dave.
amdphenomx4
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What do you base your reference points on? When sculpting, is their any technique to get a general feel of the locations? Also, what tools do you use? Aswell, is the medium clay the best for these types of sculpting?
We use Chavant Medium NSP modeling clay, good stuff.
As for reference points, we do sometimes use cross section cut outs of the helmet to place over the sculpt to see if we are heading in the right direction. Other than that its hard to say, just keep building up the sculpt, looking at it from all angles and start to block in where each part should roughly be. Its practise im afriad. Photoshop can be helpful aswell.
As for tools, we use a selection. Flat metal scrappers for the surfaces and wire scrappers for the smaller sections. I also like to make myself tools from plastic card for those impossible to reach areas
Right... 3:09 last night... helmet sculpts done!
Piccies! again sorry for the picture quality... dark kitchin at 3am, we'd started to get the giggles at this point aswell so im amazed they are even slightly sharp lol
Few points, we didnt bother getting the visor surface smooth / neat because its going to be cut out once cast... no point. The last picture has had two layers of silicone blown onto it, next comes the thixo layers. Always fun them.
Yeah we are pleased. Hopefully going to get all the silicone on today, fiberglass next week.
I do prefer this one I made though...
As for reference points, we do sometimes use cross section cut outs of the helmet to place over the sculpt to see if we are heading in the right direction. Other than that its hard to say, just keep building up the sculpt, looking at it from all angles and start to block in where each part should roughly be. Its practise im afriad. Photoshop can be helpful aswell.
As for tools, we use a selection. Flat metal scrappers for the surfaces and wire scrappers for the smaller sections. I also like to make myself tools from plastic card for those impossible to reach areas
Right... 3:09 last night... helmet sculpts done!
Piccies! again sorry for the picture quality... dark kitchin at 3am, we'd started to get the giggles at this point aswell so im amazed they are even slightly sharp lol
Few points, we didnt bother getting the visor surface smooth / neat because its going to be cut out once cast... no point. The last picture has had two layers of silicone blown onto it, next comes the thixo layers. Always fun them.
Yeah we are pleased. Hopefully going to get all the silicone on today, fiberglass next week.
I do prefer this one I made though...
XxCALIBERxX
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WOW! Amazing as per usual! I'm loving it. (I personally reckon your sculpt out does the pep hands down!)
Its SO SMOOTH! How?!.
Also What are Thixo layers pray tell? sounds interesting.
And what you said before 'The right materials make life so much easier' is so well said!
Cheers, Dave.
Its SO SMOOTH! How?!
. Also What are Thixo layers pray tell? sounds interesting.
And what you said before 'The right materials make life so much easier' is so well said!
Cheers, Dave.
Thanks guys, really appreciate it!
As with every sculpt its never going to be perfect, theres a few things we could have gotten neater but ill leave those to the sand once cast.
The surface is just going over and over and over again on the same surfaces with your tools. Eventually it will become smooth, takes friggin ages though lol. How long you think it will take x 3 We also lightly sponge on a layer of white spirit to the final sculpt aswell, this melts the very top surface smoothing it out more.
Thixo is just another toxic liquid you can add to your silicone mixture to thicken it up. The first two painted/blown layers need to be watery to get all the detail, the following 3 layers need to add bulk so thickening it up means you have to do less layers and you dont waist half in drips.
As for how much silicone weve used/will use on the entire suit? tough question. We bought 2 x 20kg tubs of the stuff, weve just (last layer on the helmet) opened the second one. I hope it will see us through on the torso aswell. Its expensive
Thanks Altair
As with every sculpt its never going to be perfect, theres a few things we could have gotten neater but ill leave those to the sand once cast.
The surface is just going over and over and over again on the same surfaces with your tools. Eventually it will become smooth, takes friggin ages though lol. How long you think it will take x 3
We also lightly sponge on a layer of white spirit to the final sculpt aswell, this melts the very top surface smoothing it out more.Thixo is just another toxic liquid you can add to your silicone mixture to thicken it up. The first two painted/blown layers need to be watery to get all the detail, the following 3 layers need to add bulk so thickening it up means you have to do less layers and you dont waist half in drips.
As for how much silicone weve used/will use on the entire suit? tough question. We bought 2 x 20kg tubs of the stuff, weve just (last layer on the helmet) opened the second one. I hope it will see us through on the torso aswell. Its expensive
Thanks Altair
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