May 13, 2001

We now need to make a nice pillow for the Jedi to sit on. So smooth out a piece of sculpey and shape it into a rectangle. It should be as wide as the inside of the side snakes.

May 13, 2001

This is where the fillow was fitted. I smoothed out some of the corners and merged the rear of the pillow with the chair's back.

May 13, 2001

Now since I want a trap door to put my figures, I cut out a chunk of the pillow to fit their legs. If you are making a chair and want the jedi to stand next to it, you don't need to cut out the pillow.

This is just a step to help me in the mold process.

June 13, 2001

My god - I can't believe it took me 1 month to get back to working on this chair. What a month May was - YUK.

Anyway, Here I thickened the side tubes a little and making them more straight and round. I used the "dip the tool in water" trick to smooth out the Super Sculpey.

June 13, 2001

Next was to smooth the back of the chair even if we will never see it.

I just cut a thin sqaure shape and blended it in to touch all existing sides.

June 13, 2001

For once it was nice to get a little help. Seems I did not have to convince Han Solo that much to Slice Greedo in half - LOL. Why did I do this? Because Greedo's legs will help with the "sitting" shapes of the Jedi Robes.

More about that later...

June 13, 2001

Flatten a piece of Super Sculpey to 1/2 a cm thick.

June 13, 2001

Now I place the chair on this to make the base thicker and to give it the accurate angled base.

June 13, 2001

Cut the excess Sculpey with your Xacto Knife. Leave 1/4 cm gap all around the chair.

June 13, 2001

Now use your tool to meld the 2 pieces together. At the same time, Push the Sculpey upwards so that it is thinner at the top thus giving us a 45 degree angle for the base.

June 13, 2001

This is the finished base. I made sure to sut out the hole in the bottom for the figure to pop out and yes, before you all email me, I do know it looks like a Jedi Toilet - LOL.

This is a good point to stick it in the oven and get the new base to harden.

June 13, 2001

These gaps are movie accurate but will cause me a major headache for my mold process, so I decided to fill it in and will use paint to give the illusion of a gap later.

June 13, 2001

This is what the chair looks like with the gap filled. Once the figure is seated it will hardly be visible anyways.

You cannot see the fill on the left side of the picture as the tube sticks out far enough to hide our change in design.

June 13, 2001

Next step are the little pillow arm rests. Cut out small allongated oval shapes and place them on the tubes at an even height.

June 13, 2001

Now press down with your fingers to make them "wrap" around the tube. use your tools to smooths out the edges and blend the pieces into 1.