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12 years ago
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This is like a little digest on things in progress and issues found.
Fake Teeth/ Guards
Fake teeth can easily be made by getting you dentist to make a Yellow Stone impression, and you can then use Polymorph to mould the teeth from these.
As Polymorph becomes plastic at 60c you can fine tune the fit in your mouth easily. Even skip the above step of getting the teeth made..
If you trim with scissors - a quick pass with a cigarette lighter rounds any rough edges.
Making Underskulls
LCD projectors are great for expanding and sizing a picture from the net for tracing onto foam
Polystyrene - although messy - is very easy to work with and cut. Also very cheap - a 50cm x 30cm x 30cm block is ony $12.50
Never use Fibreglass resin on Polystyrene foam. Several tries with Gladwrap to seal the poly foam did not work. Possibility of using several layers of latex paint OR finfoil might work.
Epoxy Resin is what you need to work on Poly foam. You will need POWDER impregnated glass matting. Notmal glass matting is not suitable. Epoxy resin is sadly more expensive that Fibreglass resin
Glass Matting is better for building up the shape than glass cloth. Also use short set resin (2 hours set) so that things unser slight tension WILL set.
Thats about it for the moment folks
Marc
Fake Teeth/ Guards
Fake teeth can easily be made by getting you dentist to make a Yellow Stone impression, and you can then use Polymorph to mould the teeth from these.
As Polymorph becomes plastic at 60c you can fine tune the fit in your mouth easily. Even skip the above step of getting the teeth made..
If you trim with scissors - a quick pass with a cigarette lighter rounds any rough edges.
Making Underskulls
LCD projectors are great for expanding and sizing a picture from the net for tracing onto foam
Polystyrene - although messy - is very easy to work with and cut. Also very cheap - a 50cm x 30cm x 30cm block is ony $12.50
Never use Fibreglass resin on Polystyrene foam. Several tries with Gladwrap to seal the poly foam did not work. Possibility of using several layers of latex paint OR finfoil might work.
Epoxy Resin is what you need to work on Poly foam. You will need POWDER impregnated glass matting. Notmal glass matting is not suitable. Epoxy resin is sadly more expensive that Fibreglass resin
Glass Matting is better for building up the shape than glass cloth. Also use short set resin (2 hours set) so that things unser slight tension WILL set.
Thats about it for the moment folks
Marc
