Jet



The second of my 'original (although not entirely)' sculptures. This one is based on Blastoise - only a much more upset version. I call him 'Jet'.

Sculpted in Monster Clay, cast in Easy-flo 120 polyurethane resin. Painted with Tamiya acrylic. One of them had been cold cast in brass powder (more on that below) and given a couple of washes of browns and touches of green to give it an aged look.

Sculpting













Moulding and Casting

 


A one-part brush on mold was made for this piece - as sculpting with detachable arms and fairly stubby legs leaves me with no undercuts significant enough to warrant a full two part mold set up. I pour an slush cast the resin in from the bottom of the mold where the feet meet the base.


A two part plaster bandage jacket is applied to keep the mold together as I rotate it during slush casting.


For one specific cast I poured some Brass metal power into the silicon molds. The powder sticks to the silicone and coats the entire with a fine film - afterwards resin is poured in as normal. The resulting casts are quite cool...


With a bit of steel wool you can really buff out that real metal shine - much more convincing than simply spraying with a metallic acrylic paint!

I tried to get an uneven weathering to the MDF base too. This was sanded smooth (as cut MDF is rather fluffy) and given a couple of coats of filler primer. Then I applied the tried and true 'Hairspray' technique for flaky paint - only this time I followed with a blast of metallic gold acrylic immediately after soaking the board with hairspray. What resulted was an interesting finish....



Finished Figure









5 comments:

  1. Unknown31 October 2017 at 10:45

    Where did you learn how to make these things?

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    1. HBR31 October 2017 at 13:03

      For the sculpting part of it - I'm self taught - I've been doing it properly now for about 7 years. The molding and casting bit - lots of tutorials and youtube videos! (and lots of trial and error)

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    2. Unknown31 October 2017 at 14:35

      What tools do you use?

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    3. HBR1 November 2017 at 11:17

      I've got some basic loop tools, some metal wax carvers and there's these engraving tools you can get with little metal balls on the end - they're really handy. Plus a little heat-gun if i'm working with Monster Clay.

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