Elysian Realm
I had to tend to other matters over the past few months, mainly my other business, which obviously put my art endeavors on hold. Today I had a day off and was able to devote some time to my stalled art mannequin project. Yes Hector has been frustrating me. Did I mention I named him […]
I was able to make over 30 molds of individual muscles for the torso and upper arms. However casting with the red silicone did not go so well due to air getting trapped inside the molds while pouring. So I have ordered a syringe and will try injecting the silicone to force the air out. […]
I’m back to work on creating the muscles. I had to take a break for a while due to having to live in my shop for 5 weeks to avoid tension in the house. Now that I’m back living in my home I have resumed work. The muscles are proving to be very difficult to […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m all set to start making the actual resin parts now. The pressure chamber and air compressor arrived, and the tiny air compressor is so cute! I had to get a few parts for the chamber because it had a crank agitator that needed to be removed, so I got a big fat flange bolt […]
I mixed up the silicone really good with some tongue depressors and set the mixing cup in the vacuum chamber. I fired up the vacuum compressor and was surprised how quiet it was. It took me a moment to figure out the valves but once I did the vacuum gauge shot up and within moments […]
I had a rough go on this first cast pour. The resin sets up in about 3 minutes after mixing. I had put the molds in the microwave for a minute and I forgot I had copper wires holding things together. Copper and microwaves are an interesting mix. Luckily the smoke and burning smell subsided […]