bat texan
Caped Crusader
Registered: 11-2007
Location: DFW Texas
Posts: 1328
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG 9
Thanks guys!
leiter22, the artist on The Long Halloween was Tim Sale, I believe, and no I haven't done any like his---maybe someday. And I haven't done any armor . . . yet!
Alright RevIm, you've got a sharp eye, I confess, it's rigid foam! That's what I like to call my one major screw-up on this deal. Long story sort, I misread what Ed recommended, and got the wrong stuff. However, it's not a total loss, since he thinks after I cast the ultracal mold, I can just tear out the foam til I can collapse the urethane enough to remove it. I'll get the right foam to make another master, but in the meantime I should still be able to get a one-piece ultracal mold off this one and start pouring latex. I feel like such an idiot! :banghead But things have been a little crazy around here the last few weeks, but we're past the worst of it.
Thanks again for all the nice comments guys, it's what keeps me going when things don't quite go as planned! 
--- Tom: [email protected] OR [email protected] ; www.facebook.com/TheBatTexan |
|
1/23/2009, 5:23 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to bat texan
Send PM to bat texan
|
RevolutionImages
Sidekick
Registered: 08-2008
Posts: 306
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG 9
Hey Tom. as long as you can make the mold from it thats all that matters. and after a few you can always make another urethane master. and yes it will definitly work, when i sculpted my tdk cowl, it was sculpted ontop a plaster bandage lifecast with rigid foam filled in the core. after i made my fiberglass mold around the sculpt, i cut/tore out as much foam as i could, then filled it with water to soften the plaster bandages, then removed that and the clay sculpt. not identical but it will work. good to know my eye was right. but im sorry about the wrong foam. i actually ordered this from monster makers for doing exactly what you are doing:
http://www.monstermakers.com/product/soft-expanding-polyurethane-foam.html
Last edited by RevolutionImages, 1/23/2009, 5:40 pm
|
|
1/23/2009, 5:39 pm
|
Link to this post
Send PM to RevolutionImages
|
bat texan
Caped Crusader
Registered: 11-2007
Location: DFW Texas
Posts: 1328
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG 9
I figured it would work okay, Rev, but thanks for the confirmation. I thought I'd remembered something along those lines on the thread for your cowl. When I make another urethane foam master, I'll definitely be using the soft foam.
Still can't believe I did that! :banghead
Oh well, live and learn!
--- Tom: [email protected] OR [email protected] ; www.facebook.com/TheBatTexan |
|
1/23/2009, 6:05 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to bat texan
Send PM to bat texan
|
Proximo
Caped Crusader
Registered: 12-2004
Posts: 4384
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG 9
Turned out great!
When you do your new Urethane master later, Tint the Urethane black, That way you have a nice Bust to use as display too.
|
|
1/23/2009, 6:16 pm
|
Link to this post
Send PM to Proximo
|
efarrell4
Head Administrator
Registered: 02-2004
Posts: 7503
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG 9
It sure does look stunning Tom. :up
--- I'm "Uncle" Ed and I approve this message...
I do NOT accept PM's, EVER!! If you need to contact me use my email [email protected] , it hasn't changed since 1996. ALL PM's will be ignored! |
|
1/23/2009, 6:51 pm
|
Link to this post
|
TheKingaSwing
Caped Crusader
Registered: 09-2004
Location: Midlands, England
Posts: 4196
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG 9
I was thinking about this and it could turn into a very nice "happy accident".
Im sure the flexible foam has a good degree of hardness to it despite being flexible, although I can see some risk when making the mold that a brow or the forehead maybe gets pushed in a little and the mold will forever have a ding in it.
By having the rigid foam it will be a lot easier as it has something solid in it to keep the shape.
Sure you may want to make another master in the future as this one will get pretty much destroyed but at least a risk is gone.
Cant wait to see progress on this!
|
|
1/25/2009, 6:59 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to TheKingaSwing
Send PM to TheKingaSwing
|
bat texan
Caped Crusader
Registered: 11-2007
Location: DFW Texas
Posts: 1328
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG11
Guess what this is:
A few minor flaws, and a couple of minor cracks, all easily fixed.
Once it's good and dry, I'll start pouring some latex! :batman
Last edited by bat texan, 2/1/2009, 12:57 pm
--- Tom: [email protected] OR [email protected] ; www.facebook.com/TheBatTexan |
|
2/1/2009, 12:56 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to bat texan
Send PM to bat texan
|
Shadowbat69
Caped Crusader
Registered: 07-2004
Location: In the shadows
Posts: 4495
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG 11
oh boy, oh boy, oh boy 
---
“Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins.”
|
|
2/1/2009, 2:07 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Shadowbat69
Send PM to Shadowbat69
|
The BlackBat
Registered: 01-2004
Posts: 8469
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG 11
NICE!
Really looking forward to seeing a finished version of this one.
~Tim :batfly
---
"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."
|
|
2/1/2009, 2:25 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to The BlackBat
Send PM to The BlackBat
|
FlikMage
Apprentice
Registered: 06-2008
Location: Project Mayhem HQ, Oregon
Posts: 242
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Bat Texan Jim Lee-style Cowl Sculpt UPDATED PG 11
I give up; what is it? :huh
---
"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy."
|
|
2/1/2009, 6:39 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to FlikMage
Send PM to FlikMage
|
