Monday, 6 October 2008

Moulding life cast

in the mourning i remeasured Rowens head to make sure i had taken the correct measurements before commencing with the moulding. unfortunatly i had some how taken the wrong measurements so had to sand back more of the head before i could mould it but it needed to be resealed with shellac first, so in all this mistake has set me back half a day.


i built a clay wall and even though i dont have any ears on this life cast i thought it would be good practice to simulate the need to go round the ears , also i had drilled holes around the ears and this would be easier to mould with silicone, fiber glass would probably become trapped.


i used mod roc to help support the wall when i clean it up and smooth it out and when i fiber glass.
locating holes were pressed into the clay and several layers of lacquer were applied then blue PVA painted on but the PVA took so long to dry that i ran out of time and could not do any fiber glassing so i had to cover it with cling film to stop the clay wall drying out overnight.

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