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Tadaa! The current state of the puppet and it\'s second casting. Profile view. I decided to make this one \'clear\' as I wanted to see how the armature sat through the casting. Overall it worked well, but there were a couple spots where you could really see where it wanted to poke through. Ah well.

I don\'t like the positioning of where the eye came out. Plus the design for the wrist stump/neck didn\'t leave much room for getting it to be the size I wanted, but what was aggrivating the most about it was trying to pour the blasted thing~! On the first pouring (the coloured version) the eye wasn\'t really taken into consideration. I ended up chopping into the puppet and making a rather disturbing cylindrical hole that did strange things to the creature when a marble was placed inside. For this one I made a ball-shaped filler to place just inside the wrist/neck and in all reguards, it made a nice little nook all the same... only...

The mold was frickin\' impossible to pour. A note about Gel10: once you mix the stuff together you have about 5 minutes to pour it before it starts setting and what\'s left in your tin turns into a solid pile of springy plastic. Oh, and during thes five minutes it\'s constantly getting thicker and harder to deal with. Well, the only intentional pour hole I had for this mold (closed the edges off with white clay) was at the neck, and add to that an armature taking up much of the interior real estate of what you\'re trying to pour as well as a small stopper about the size of a shooter marble right at the pour hole and you\'ve got something that not only doesn\'t want to work but makes fun of you while you\'re trying to crazily force the gooey mix in.

Silicon\'s fun stuff. I saw this freaky-cool hump the folks at Bity Mold Supply made for a staged Hunchback play costume that was pretty wicked-looking on the outside and soft & stick on the underside, so as to attach it to the actor\'s back. You can slather a strip onto your skin and minutes later peel off the prosthetic blob, clean-spicky.

It\'s also expensive. I think I wasted about half the mix I made up and ended up with a near-amorphous casting that went between solid and paper-thin in places. Thankfully the armature held the blasted thing together, and most of the external surface had cast through. I was able to go back later with a syringe and some more silicon mix... D\'oh! I think I forgot to add deadener to those batches! ah well. ...and filled in the holes that didn\'t get some of the original filling. The silicon-syringe method did an awesome job though and myself and a friend were able to flesh out Manos #2 the way nature intended it to be. Thanks June!

Oh, and the marble-sized depression that set off all this trouble? Yeah, it got cast nicely too. dangerously thin in places at first, but it worked ^.^
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Hey, this looks cooool. :)