Horse is in...
17 years ago
After a nice all-day Ultracal marathon, I managed to get the Horse mold completely done today, including the Ear mold for standard-sized Ears.
This Horse mold is actually the easiest to use yet most complex mold I've made to date, using everything I've been learning over the last three years of mask-making: There are two nostril plugs which I made to help facilitate pulling the mold halves off without tearing the nose apart, there are the steel Pry Points™ that I created and used in the edges of the mold which Really helped me be able to pry the two halves apart without damaging the mold itself, and the Core mold is a Two-part core that has three wooden dowels that can be removed to detach the two parts of the core mold at the face seal.
Heres the interesting thing: As soon as the ear mold was done (about 11:30 sat morn), I filled it. Just before I injected the latex into the horse mold, I checked the ears. Only 12 hours, and theyre done!!! Am hoping the same holds true for the horse mask itself, as its wall thicknesses aren't as thick as the Ears were!
Pics will come in as I get a chance to put them up, in the meantime I'm goin ta Sleep! Its 2:53am, and I know where my pillows are at!!!
This Horse mold is actually the easiest to use yet most complex mold I've made to date, using everything I've been learning over the last three years of mask-making: There are two nostril plugs which I made to help facilitate pulling the mold halves off without tearing the nose apart, there are the steel Pry Points™ that I created and used in the edges of the mold which Really helped me be able to pry the two halves apart without damaging the mold itself, and the Core mold is a Two-part core that has three wooden dowels that can be removed to detach the two parts of the core mold at the face seal.
Heres the interesting thing: As soon as the ear mold was done (about 11:30 sat morn), I filled it. Just before I injected the latex into the horse mold, I checked the ears. Only 12 hours, and theyre done!!! Am hoping the same holds true for the horse mask itself, as its wall thicknesses aren't as thick as the Ears were!
Pics will come in as I get a chance to put them up, in the meantime I'm goin ta Sleep! Its 2:53am, and I know where my pillows are at!!!
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Horsie!!!