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ONE STEP FORWARD…

Trying to find the best approach to creating all the muscles, I first had to make sure silicone would stick to the skeleton and stretch without breaking. So I had to create some silicone muscles. I took the clay sculpts and made an injection-type mold from them. Injection meaning that I literally inject the silicone […]

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COMPUTER MODEL NEARS COMPLETION

My second skeleton model is almost assembled. I accidentally ordered two left femurs so I took the opportunity to redesign the femur a bit so that the steel ball magnet fits it better. I ordered a left and a right this time and they should be here soon. I also have some mold-making materials on […]

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MUSCLES AND PRICE

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 […]

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TAKING IT A STEP FURTHER

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 […]

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3D PRINTING

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 […]