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Bronze Christopher Reeve Bust - Pics
Hi Everyone!!
I'm pretty excited about this, I actually did a "cold cast Bronze" Reeve bust!! This is 100% Bronze... Cold to the touch and about 15-20 pounds in weight!
Even though this is VERY expensive and NOT easy to do, I'm already dreaming of my Batman Bust all bronzed :dancespot
H
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2/24/2004, 12:14 am
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Blackwood Bat
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Re: Check This Out... Bronze Christopher Reeve Bust!!!
Keeps getting better and better :wink
What the basic process of this type of casting?
John :flapbat
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2/24/2004, 12:50 am
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Hudson82
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Re: Check This Out... Bronze Christopher Reeve Bust!!!
Wow that has the look like it belongs in a museum. Simply incredible. I can wait to see Batman if you decided to do the same.
Keep up you hard work. :up
Keith
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2/24/2004, 1:14 am
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Brin Londo
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Re: Check This Out... Bronze Christopher Reeve Bust!!!
You need to contact the guy at the Superman museum in Metropolis, IL.
He'd snap one of those up in an instant.
-Brin
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2/24/2004, 1:20 am
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Re: Check This Out... Bronze Christopher Reeve Bust!!!
Superman: The Man of...Bronze! :happy
That looks very very coooool!!
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2/24/2004, 4:00 am
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timemaster11
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Re: Check This Out... Bronze Christopher Reeve Bust!!!
Wow that looks great
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2/24/2004, 5:34 am
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Re: Check This Out... Bronze Christopher Reeve Bust!!!
Blackwood, i'm sure howard (?) will fill you in on how he did this, but cold casting (in a nutshell) is done by adding bronze powder to resin... and it looks bloody great!
Yanno - you can't use steel, but you can do the same with nickel silver....
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2/24/2004, 6:55 am
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Re: Check This Out... Bronze Christopher Reeve Bust!!!
Thanks Everyone!!!
Yes, in a "nutshell" it's adding "bronze" powder to resin... let's explain this out of the "nutshell" :tongue
First, about 15 pounds of VERY expensive Bronze powder is added to the resin I normally use, (EasyFlo) then after casting all of the 15 pounds into the casting, let it cure longer than normal... pull the casting and trim. Then oxidize the casting with patina (average 1/2 hour), once nice and dark, almost black... wash with de-greaser. Then spend about 2 hours steel wooling this baby, till it has the look you want, after this take a spin wheel polishing pad and go to town on it till it has the luster you want (can be done with a polishing compound if desired). Finally spray sealer laquer on it, I went with out-door sealant :happy
And that's about it.... very involved and not cheap but worth it if you ask me.
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2/24/2004, 8:13 am
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Re: Check This Out... Bronze Christopher Reeve Bust!!!
Wow that's awesome..thanks for sharing.
This is stuff I've always wanted to do,but I'm just now learning. One day :tongue
John :flapbat
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2/24/2004, 9:12 am
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