DOOM ETERNAL - PAIN ELEMENTAL

 

This was a fun one - but also posed a few challenges. Number one of them is all the little teeth and horns. I wanted to pressure cast the figure to preserve this detail in the casting, but the size of the figure meant that quite a lot of material would be needed. It would have to be hollow - but how?

TL;DR - Finished pictures are at the end.

 

Sculpting Process

Sculpted in monster clay over a tin foil armature.

Molding and Casting

Because the figure has lots of little thin protruding teeth I wanted to pressure cast it for the best possible reproduction (that I can manage myself) That also meant a slush cast was out of the question. So the casting and molding process was such that the figure had to be hollow!

Firstly, there were a lot of undercuts in the figures mouth - look at all that. These were all sliced off in sections prior to molding the body.

I block out my molds to save as much silicone as possible - it works but it could be more tidy.

The bulk of the figure needed to be pressure cast - but doing a large block pour would be quite wasteful. Instead the mold was made in stages. Each stage involved building a Plasticine wall, degassing the silicone and pouring. This was done at least 7 or 8 times.... Quite time consuming but it saved a lot of silicone.

To be able to make a hollow cast I needed to make a positive core to use inside the mold during casting. This was done by pouring liquid monster clay into the mold to create a shell of the desired thickness. Then a plaster cast was taken. When the monster clay was removed it left a void between the silicone mold and the plaster positive. Holes were drilled into the plaster to pour the resin in to. This was my rough and ready way to make a hollow pressure cast mold.

The cool thing about this is the casting in Monster Clay is a cool way to potentially cast and modify old sculptures - FUN.

Completed Cast

Painting

A painted this thing with a mixture of Vallejo and Citadel acrylics with an airbrush and later by hand with various washes to get the details out.

The base was made in such a way so that there would be no visible armature - It's a floating character but I didn't want to have even a clear acrylic rod sticking out of the bottom. Instead the creature is supported by metal rods up the supporting arm and a pin in the elbow of the other arm to secure it in place.

Finally, I made a little DOOM logo out of styrene.

Finished Figure