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| Experiment #1 Sculpy Viper |
| A sculpy head on a generic Big Ben body. The painting was just minimal so that you could see the details. Now that I have access to some real castings of Viper Heads, I don't feel any urgency to pursue this project. However, for those of you that want to try, I'll detail it for you. |
| Purpose of the Experiment: To create a sculpy version of the Viper head, and remove the silly goggles from the helmet, which someone using a full faceplate wouldn't really need. |
| Step 1: Making the Mold I took a small plastic box (1" by 1.5"), sprayed it wait oil, and filled it with sculpy. I pressed the back of the Viper head into the mold to about 1/2 of the depth of the head, then removed the head to ensure that I got a clean impression. I then froze the mold for 1/2 hour, and popped out the mold piece. I baked this piece following the directions on the package. I then filled the box with fresh sculpy, and fit the head into the rear part of the mould. I pressed the head and rear mold into the box of sculpy, pressing until the cooked mold met the fresh sculpy. I then turned up the edges of the fresh sculpy to use them as a guide for the rear side of the mold, so I would know where to connect them. After freezing this for half an hour, I baked it too. |
| Step 2: Making the Head Oiling the mold, I rolled a ball of sculpy against a flat surfice to remove fingerprints, and pressed it into the mold. It took a few tries to get hte right quantity of sculpy for this. Pressing both sides of the mold, I put the entire mold into the freezer for 1/2 hour. Pulling apart the sides of the mold, I had a cold, but pliable viper head. I removed the goggles by rolling the top of the head on a smooth coffee table. The nex, and critical part, was that I put the head ball section of the head into the torso that I wanted. The mold makes things larger for some reason, and the head ball wouldn't fit if I had used it directly from the mold. The torso will cut off any extra sculpy, and you'll end up with a perfect fit for whatever torso you use. I ran into a problem baking it thiugh, as I left it for too long, and one side of the head was burnt a little brown. |
| Summary: Not the greates result, and you'd have to be a pretty good artist to get better results. The mold came out quite a bit larger than I'd hoped, and looking at it beside a real casting makes it look pathetic. I would reccomend modifying standard heads before attempting this time consuming and not very satisfying method. - Raptor |
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