twigLimbs Progress: Thursday & Friday
Thursday:
Poured tests for the upper and lower torso and the two lower legs = success!!
Found out that the new silicone I have ordered is amazing and will make my job much easier, but unfortunately the resin I wanted to buy is out of stock from the distributor, so I am looking for alternatives, otherwise there will be more delays, and we don't want that....
I am taking tomorrow off to do some much needed housework, but I can't do much more at the moment anyway, being out of silicone and all. That said I am really getting into the swing of things, mixing, pouring, sealing the pressurepot and having something else to tinker with while the resin gels. I think I can easily get a doll out per day, but it will depend on the resin I end up getting, as some of them need post-curing in an oven. Longer working time means I can pour more parts at once (as many as I can fit in the pot), but that they will take longer to cure, however the resin will gel up pretty fast so that I can take the parts out of the pot again even if I don't open the molds till the prescribed curing time is passed. A shorter working time means I can only pour one large part at a time, and then quickly get it in the pot, but this type of resin sets up fast so I can get the next part in after 20 or so minutes and thus get all the parts (I think I have 22 molds) cast in one day.
Any of this making sense??
Also, for the record, the new leg molds that Kaye and I made are very good, they are glove-molds and they are used vertically, so only one seamline (which is in the back), and we used core-molds so I don't need to drill out the tunnels for the elastic. Casting vertically means that the bubbles will rise up to the pour-gate and air-vents, although there may be some small bubbles along the top of the part, but this is nothing compared to what I got from Greg.
Friday:
The resin I want to buy is somewhere in the Pacific Ocean and scheduled to dock in Australia on July 9. Apparently after a lull there has now been a recent boom in the local movie industry and they have bought up all the resin
.... So I have bought the leftover stock from one place, which is about one third of the amount of resin I need to finish the order, but it is a start. In the meantime I am also trialling another type of resin from a different company, which hopefully will be a decent replacement so I don't have to wait till the mid to late of July before I can continue. Will keep you updated on that, but at least the new silicone is ordered and will be here early next week.
Poured tests for the upper and lower torso and the two lower legs = success!!
Found out that the new silicone I have ordered is amazing and will make my job much easier, but unfortunately the resin I wanted to buy is out of stock from the distributor, so I am looking for alternatives, otherwise there will be more delays, and we don't want that....
I am taking tomorrow off to do some much needed housework, but I can't do much more at the moment anyway, being out of silicone and all. That said I am really getting into the swing of things, mixing, pouring, sealing the pressurepot and having something else to tinker with while the resin gels. I think I can easily get a doll out per day, but it will depend on the resin I end up getting, as some of them need post-curing in an oven. Longer working time means I can pour more parts at once (as many as I can fit in the pot), but that they will take longer to cure, however the resin will gel up pretty fast so that I can take the parts out of the pot again even if I don't open the molds till the prescribed curing time is passed. A shorter working time means I can only pour one large part at a time, and then quickly get it in the pot, but this type of resin sets up fast so I can get the next part in after 20 or so minutes and thus get all the parts (I think I have 22 molds) cast in one day.
Any of this making sense??
Also, for the record, the new leg molds that Kaye and I made are very good, they are glove-molds and they are used vertically, so only one seamline (which is in the back), and we used core-molds so I don't need to drill out the tunnels for the elastic. Casting vertically means that the bubbles will rise up to the pour-gate and air-vents, although there may be some small bubbles along the top of the part, but this is nothing compared to what I got from Greg.
Friday:
The resin I want to buy is somewhere in the Pacific Ocean and scheduled to dock in Australia on July 9. Apparently after a lull there has now been a recent boom in the local movie industry and they have bought up all the resin
.... So I have bought the leftover stock from one place, which is about one third of the amount of resin I need to finish the order, but it is a start. In the meantime I am also trialling another type of resin from a different company, which hopefully will be a decent replacement so I don't have to wait till the mid to late of July before I can continue. Will keep you updated on that, but at least the new silicone is ordered and will be here early next week.