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furtechOne upside of the state of CF was that I went in to the shop and got a huge amount of work done. Weekends and evenings are great for getting stuff accomplished: no phones, no distractions.
I needed to run some more heads for the quickie masks I'm making for a test project. Unfortunately, I found out why I hadn't used two of these molds for nearly ten years: they were casualties of the Northridge Earthquake and had fallen and cracked. I started this on Friday, but didn't get far (though the problems led to me not even getting to CF that day). Lots of reconstruction and duct tape.
Today I finally got to run new masters for those molds (to have fibre glass molds made to replace the broken stone molds). Patched some of the cracks with bee's wax. I also tested three other molds and ended up running nearly a dozen heads, ranging from relatively small to huge (upper chest and head), as well as some more teeth and claws. I was on a roll! This would normally take a day or two, but I got most of it done in about 5 hours-- I was a blur! I was good and used my respirator and wore crappy clothes, but still managed to get foam all over me. And in my hair. This last made me think again about going back to my "nancy" cut (*bzzzzz*!). Long hair can be a pain in the shop!
One dogwalk and a long, -hot- shower later and I'm feeling MUCH better.
I needed to run some more heads for the quickie masks I'm making for a test project. Unfortunately, I found out why I hadn't used two of these molds for nearly ten years: they were casualties of the Northridge Earthquake and had fallen and cracked. I started this on Friday, but didn't get far (though the problems led to me not even getting to CF that day). Lots of reconstruction and duct tape.
Today I finally got to run new masters for those molds (to have fibre glass molds made to replace the broken stone molds). Patched some of the cracks with bee's wax. I also tested three other molds and ended up running nearly a dozen heads, ranging from relatively small to huge (upper chest and head), as well as some more teeth and claws. I was on a roll! This would normally take a day or two, but I got most of it done in about 5 hours-- I was a blur! I was good and used my respirator and wore crappy clothes, but still managed to get foam all over me. And in my hair. This last made me think again about going back to my "nancy" cut (*bzzzzz*!). Long hair can be a pain in the shop!
One dogwalk and a long, -hot- shower later and I'm feeling MUCH better.
