Elysian Realm
This skeleton guy has kept me so busy the past couple months. The last few days have been comprised of me designing parts for a stand to hold him up and also redesigning parts on him that needed improving. The stand needed a way to attach to him so I had to redesign the ribcage. […]
The 3D printed parts arrived yesterday – they came out amazing – and I spent some of the afternoon assembling them into the final skeleton. All the magnets fit really well. I do wish the holes for the screws were threaded, but for now I just gooped super-glue gel in all the holes and hope […]
Waiting for my first parts to arrive in the mail feels like when I was a kid waiting for Christmas the week before. It feels like it’s taking forever! I have been trying to keep myself busy in the meantime by figuring out a method for getting the muscles built. First I uploaded four individual […]
I worked far into the night (and morning) getting fingers built on the computer for the mannequin. They are so small that the 3D printing website was not liking them and I had to rebuild them numerous times. I finally decided they were good and placed the order. Next week by Friday I should be […]
My forearm is sore from all the work on the computer the past few days, but I have got all the skeleton parts created in 3D except the fingers. I uploaded them all to a website called XOMETRY last night. They are going to 3D print all the parts for me, and if the site […]
I’ve had enough of making molds. I got a few more made over the past few days. I had to resculpt the scapula and make another mold of it. I won’t go into all the problems I’ve had but this morning I assembled the pieces that I have into a partial skeleton. The head is […]
All the parts came out pretty good. I assembled them into an arm and a leg and began posing them. The hinge joints (elbow and knee) were too loose and wouldn’t hold a pose. I contemplated some solutions for that problem and will experiment with them soon. The main problem I found though was when […]
The new pelvis still came out with a portion of the right side missing even after tightening all sides of the mold with rubber bands. Upon further investigation I realized the pour hole was lower than the side that was missing. So I built a triangular platform to slant the mold and decided to pour […]
Everything was going great with preparing the molds for a new pour. I had 8 parts ready to be cast. The problem came after pouring the resin into the pelvis mold, which is my three-piece mold. The two-piece molds are all sandwiched between wood and none of them leak. Well the three-piece mold has seams […]
I cut pour holes in the silicone mold halves, then strapped two pieces of wood to them with rubber bands. I mixed up the resin and slowly poured it into the molds. I then placed the molds into the pressure chamber, sealed the lid, and began pumping air into it with the air compressor. Something […]