Well, That Was Easy

Finished adding the details on this thing last night. I guess having done this once already gave me an advantage.

Next up: molding! Again!

New Work for a New Year...Kinda

Completely irrelevant by now but I'm still at it the ol' boy. It's at a good place for me to add the details to it, now.

Thanks much again for Ismael for letting me use his photos.

Should be good to go by the time the new extended cut of the movie hits shelves!

Chrimbus Gift for the Lil' Sis

BITCH

I now know why Fred Krueger likes that word so much.

These were exactly that  to make.

What originally was supposed to be a quick build only for myself for Halloween turned into a month long cursing and cutting misadventure. I can't tell you how many times I've cut myself or breathed in fumes that I shouldn't have, only to realize later, that it was most likely poisonous. The things I do to get these things made. "These" as in three; I made three to practice making them before I made one for myself.

Now, I'm not so sure, after hand-cutting everything and putting it all together, I'm relieved, excited, never wanting to do these things again.

Not a lot of pictures showing my progress early on, except this one. This was the original template I made to make my glove from. Only, this sucked and I got to a point where things were going along until I had to stop and do it all over again.

However, I will say, these were a far cry better than this thing I made eons ago out of some tape, cardboard, and fasteners I had laying around one day.

Oh, the metal ones are up on my Etsy, now.

Raiders Idol FINISHED

Been working on a few things for myself in my "biznus hiatus" but this was one of the first things on my list to bang out before I open up shop again.

I might remake the mold for this as these took way too much effort to try and clean up afterwards.

And here were the four before I added the gold finish. My little method of keeping the eyes stationary worked. They're filled with plaster almost completely (there's a small empty column inside just to keep it a little lighter than it would be); they're 5-6 pounds each.

Oh, Almost Forgot - Raider Idol Update

I made four in hopes of selling four.

My biggest concern for these now is how I'm going to keep the eyes stationary when I fill these with more resin to make them solid. Currently, the glass eyes are held in place with hot glue, but they don't tend to hold them very long. It seems I'll have to do these on an individual basis: installing eyes with the glue, cleaning it, and then covering the eyes so none of the the backing resin seeps through and fucks everything up.

It's getting there.

Welcome Home

Yes...

...Oh, yes.