The Embeer unicorn I put up a month ago http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3350777/

Its now up at eBay! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl.....m=180477129997

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3430808

Wow!!! Psystorm Did It!!! Perfect SL Reproductions of the JG-1 Jackal Masks!!!!

Theyre gonna be on sale soon after Psystorm takes care of all the other details :)

My Gosh those came out Wonderful! I dont have enough exclamation points in my keyboard to show how I'm so impressed!!!

Wow: Thanks to all the new Watchers that showed up after I put up the Dragon Mask, and to all those whom continue having interest in the work that I do!

I sure wish I could put stuff out faster, however the 9-5 sure saps my time and working with Liquid Latex is most definitely an exercise in patience!

There Will be more new doings as I continue plodding along with this crazy hobby of mine, and I thank you for following me on this wild journey!

Dragon is about halfway complete, had to come up with a usable nosecup for it. Should be attachable to the hood after the nosecup has been fitted, Once the hood is on, Scales!

Not too fancy, just a ditty Kat and I came up with to show it in action :) She's wearing it, I'm taking the video with a little Canon camera, and She mixed the Video!

http://www.youtube.com/v/C-GoUvjTHUo&hl

[Edit] For the curious, the song is a Royalty-Free item that we found entitled "Passing Waves" from massivetracks.net

Experimentation Continues! New stuff in the works, The Subject heading of this journal should be a Big clue :) (And not quite in the first way one would associate with that phrase, although that Would be awesome too)

Meanwhile, The Halloween rush is here, getting a few masks out to people wanting them for the celebrations! It tickles me pink seeing all the wonderful suits people have built around the masks! A few bits of interesting Artwork has popped up which leaves me going "Wow!"

Anyhoo, heres molding!

Thanks to  Vawlkee pointing out that an image of one of my JG-2s made it into a strange montage of photos used in the Sundays printed E section, reviewing a book called "In the valley of Kings"!

I find it quite awesome, actually!

Gazelle...

Pink Pony...

A Godpainted Jackal...

Retrofitting Cats with Face Seals...

Finalizing a Hooded Jackal...

Lootsa stuff to be done, so little time to do em all...

Its wonderful that I finally got my 9-5 back: the thing that Majorly sucks tho is that work is taking up Alot more of my time!! because of this, mask creation work has slowed down quite a bit... and days at work seem to go by slower, and I'm REALLY appreciating weekends Much more than I used to, as they're the only time I have to do needed things for myself (Like house chores n stuff)...

If people thought I wasn't social before, or didnt see me enough, sadly this "new old job" is making it worse :/

Its amazing how the sink is quiet when it doesnt drip water...

I took a bit of a break from most maskmaking for the majority of this sunday morning and did some house chores: Kat did the laundry, I fixed the drippy kitchen faucet that I've only had to change one other time since I moved in back in '97. Next I gotta Do: Accounting. Eww. I loathe it as much as some people loathe ironing. As I also loathe matching/rolling the socks together.

*sigh* If I had the molds made up I prolly coulda had some masks drying but I hadnt had the time to yet.

Ohwell, enough complaining and back to work! But only After some puzzle-pirating around to straighten the brain ;3

Barge is some WUNNERFUL shit once ya know how to use it :)



Ooooooooohhhh much newly learned stuff is forthcoming to be shown....

After I'm done with it and after it gets to their owners!!

I got my potential Mane-making supplies in the other day: Will post up pics when I get something to show!

Also am tossing around an Idea: Taking one of my Skulls, adding lenses and attaching a rubber hood, and selling it as a "Skull Mask"... (Not a gas mask tho as theres no real place to mount valves)

I've got the ability to make a full set of latex finger-tip Claws too: Am thinking on starting those up as a side accessory that I can offer, specially since theyre so dang easy to make.

Many other plans still on the plate:

- Starting on the JG-3
- Redoing the core for the Cats to include an inner face seal
- Turning The Puppy mask I showed here the other day into a full-fledged gas mask,
- Letting Kat sculpt a Vulpine gas mask

Gotta Keep on truckin!!

Heyos everyone!

As of today, I'm officially taking pubic orders for Horses! Send me a PM if you're interested!

Here's the basic Horse price sheet:
$400 for HG-1, which can fit head sizes up to 23.5"
$425 for HG-2, which is for head sizes larger than 23.5"

Ears come in two sizes: Standard and Large, Price includes your choice of Ears. Soon here am going to put up a Photo of what the Large-eared horses are going to look like.

Add $60 for Horses which breathe through the mouth, as these require additional parts.

US Shipping is $30 additional, International is $50.

Paypal and Money Orders happily accepted: Masks are shipped when funds are received.

Yes! We still sell our Jackal and Cat masks.

For more info, please visit http://www.wildgasmasks.com

I discovered something about the mouth breathers:

Am having to create a Baffle inside the nose to separate intake from exhaust: Otherwise, the exhaled air will be inhaled right back in by the wearer! Sadly this is gonna increase the cost of the mouth breathers a bit due to this needed baffle.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm like Wow in the number of faves I've been getting for the horses! Thanks lots! Youve all been quite encouraging!!!

Am working on the O-boat for the Horses now (As named by Kat when she saw it and it reminded her of Operas 'O', its the Insert that allows the horse mask to have the intake and exhaust inside the nose/mouth)

Will be assembling the Mouthy horses here shortly once these O-boats are finished drying, and will take a picture of them when ready!

Holy Crap when did they sneak that in there??????

I Can SEARCH!! I CAN SEARCH!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!


(Its the That Thing you want link on the Nav links!!!)

AWESOMELY EPIC!!!!

I Will have Masks for sale at FC! I Hope to be able to put these masks up in the Art Show, however I may not be able to get Table Space there this year. If youre interested in picking up one of these and are attending FC, Look for the people wearing "Wild Gasmasks" T-Shirts!

1) A White Jackal with Black God Paint, Starting/Asking price is $300 (Normally $400)
2) A Black Hooded JG-2, Starting/Asking price is $300 (Normally $400)

I hope to have pictures of these up shortly!

The horse that I poured last night is actually from Horse Mold #2... The First mold, which I mentioned was too small in an earlier journal, made me realize that I would not really be able to demo the final product as the result from Mold #1 would have been to small for me to wear. So, that same day I carefully transferred the horse sculpture over to My bust noggin, did a quick cleanup of the clay, resculpted the surface, and made a mold out of that. This second sized horse mask I call "Chief Big Horse", as it is designed for those of us with Enhanced Craniums. As soon as I save this journal, I Will be moving the pics off of my phone as I realize that it would be a VERY Bad Thing™ should I lose these photos, and then I'll post some pics of the progress here.

Horse mold #1 is still here, and the product that That mold will produce will be for the average-sized cranium, 22.5" and under. I will work on getting Mold#1 finished after FC, and after I pick up a new bag of Ultracal, as I'm completely out.

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!!!

I split open the Horse mold this morning: Came apart MUCH easier than any of my past efforts, only because I've applied everything I learned over the years. Pry Points™ help make Dinos Happy!

Quite a funny thing (to me at least) happened in prying off the mold: Upon pouring the right side of the mold, I had realized only afterwards that there was something I should have done to help me facilitate its removal, so I wont have to fight the clay trying to come off of the bust, as I wanted to try and keep the sculpt as intact as possible. Ohwell, so I applied this thought to the left side. Come today, when I pulled off the mold, I started with the left side, which theoretically should have been easy: The whole half of the sculpt came off when I pulled it off. It wasnt too bad, for it was a fairly clean separation

Of course, when I pulled off the Right side, which I thought was going to give me the most trouble, it gave me absolutely no trouble at all!!!!

This model is ending up being the smaller model, made for the more average sized head: Now with the mold off I was able to do some better comparisons between my noggin and it, and for me its a smidgen too small, meaning that it will fit everyone else ok. (Sadly I have an Extremely Huge Noggin™: the last time I bought a motorcycle helmet we had to special order one as the store didn't have anything that would fit me properly!!!) This is still better than what I have to do currently with the Jackals, where I currently have to add a face seal to the JG-2's as there were people mentioning that they weren't getting a good seal because the seal point was made for my size noggin. (I've also learned quite a bit from these early models: Watch or the newly revamped JG-3!!)

Fortunately as the sculpt remained fairly intact (although split in half right down the middle-ish left), I'll be transferring this over to My bust and making the appropriate adjustments to make it fit there. Overall, this is good, as that means I'll be able to better size the horses up or down to the wearers head. (Its more work for me, but ohwell!!)

Heres hoping you all have a great and wonderful New Year!

Now I have 20 days to make at Least 1 horsie... Welp, after I get myself some L-brackets, the moldwork starts!!

Jackaling around all day keeps Stegos Mind at bay. (Except yesterday: Kat and I did a minor bit of housepainting, right before the HUUUUGE deluge of a downpour we had last night).

Current status of stuff:
- 2 masks ready to be assembled, waiting on parts (which will be ready Monday eve)
- Another Nearing completion
- A JG-2 for stocking Inventory was put into the mold today.

I like to refer to the molding process as "Capturing a Jackal", as the mold is the "Jackal Trap", and the latex is "Jackal Juice": Pour the Jackal Juice into the Jackal Trap, and in due time I've captured a Jackal!

Theres a White Cat I need to capture here real soon: I recently found what I was looking for (I hope), and so with the new supply of Juice I just got in, I think I should be able to catch me a snowmew...

Anyhoo, back to Jackaling!

Its Up!! The New WildGasMasks.com site has been finished and its Up on Jackal-Lantern Day!!! Wheee!!

Check it out! Theres a bunch of new Gallery pictures there that made Me go DAYUM! when I saw em!!

http://www.wildgasmasks.com

cause everyones Watching her!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTH5OipAg9A