July 28, 2002
Let's move to the Guard statues for a moment.
When I was showing my friends at work my reference
pics for Palpatine's Appartment, my friend Martin
begged me if he could sculpt the statues.
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He loves to
play with Super Sculpey and is very good at it. I said as
long as you take some pics you can do it :)
He started off with a base that was hardened with a stick
to hold it while sculpting. |
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July 28, 2002
Some reference pics I gave him courtesy Star Wars.com
and his working materials. |
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Here is the rough shape of the back before adding
details. |
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The front view of the statue so far. I can't believe
he did all this in 3 hours. |
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Coming along nicely, and I didn't even have to sweat
an once - ;p |
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Seems Martin wasn't happy with the head so he decapitated
our poor statue.
He started adding details to the clothes like in
the pictures. |
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Martin added a new head and hardened it before cutting
a small rectangle for her hood. |
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Here is a zoomed in close up detail of the statue's
hood. |
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This is what it should look like when blended to
the body. |
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And here is the finished statue. Very impressive.
I have added a base in regular sculpey on top of
my spraypaint lids. I might add a bit of Super Sculpey
later on to blend the statues feet to the final podium
shape.
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I still haven't
decided weather I want to mold copies or make 3 more podiums
shapes by hand... they take forever... |
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October 06, 2002
Since the statue has crevices in the hood and face,
we need to make a 2 piece mold to be able to remove
the resin copy. The last thing you want is to have
your resin permanentaly stuck in the mold :P
Make a box out of cardboard or foamcore and cover
all the sides with Masking tape. |
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This helps a
lot as the silicone won't stick to the tape walls. I wrapped
plasticine all around the bottom half of the statue and
then place the statue in the box, adding extra plasticine
to reach every corner of the box. This will make the silicone
cover half the statue.
Think of it as if you are floating in a pool. Half of you
is under the water (like th eplasticine) and the other half
is exposed to air.
Next step is to poke holes into the plasticine on each
side of the sculpture. This allows the 2 mold pieces to
fit perfectly together when making your resin copy.
Now, I sprayed my release agent (Liquid wax) and waited
for the was to dry. |
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This is what the box now looks like with the Por-A-Mold
poured over the statue.
The excess plasticine you see is because the box
was too big and I didn't want to waste Silicone.
Now we let this dry 6-8 hours and then we can move
on to the other side. |
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October 06, 2002
Now that the Silicone has hardened, it's time to
make the 2nd half of our mold.
Use an Xacto blade to cut the bottom of the box.
DO NOT RIP OPEN THE SIDES !!!! Peel the lid off as
you see in the picture. |
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October 06, 2002
After the box bottom is removed, slowly scoop out
the plasticine that was surrounding the staue.
Ignore the plasticine on the right, this is to make
the box smaller and not waste Silicone.
Now we see that the poked holes have turned into
square pegs.
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You can also
see how only half of the statue has been engulfed with the
Silicone. Use your release agent spray on the entire surface
of the statue AND mold. The LAST thing you want is for both
silicone halves to form 1 big block of mold. |
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October 06, 2002
I used up all my MEDIUM silicone (Blue) So I had
to use the HARD silicone (Pink) This is still as flexible
but a little more sturdy.
I din't feel like waiting 1 month on backorder for
blue. So mix the 2 compounds and pour into the second
half of the mold. |
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