Expert detailed sculpting tutorial...Is this how you do it Techno?

[Fenton]

[nikharwood]

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

[Techno]

 

I suppose basically that's correct....I think I might have been tempted to put in a few more stages though.
Cheers - Phil

[Maenoferren]

 

[Steve J]

Very good 

[FierceKitty]

It looks so easy I wonder why they bother casting them in metal; why not just carve each one?

[petercooman]

Lol he makes it look so simple  

[petercooman]

It looks so easy I wonder why they bother casting them in metal; why not just carve each one?

Maybe they get bored with twisting the wire skeletons 

[Techno]

It looks so easy I wonder why they bother casting them in metal; why not just carve each one?

There was one memorable occasion, many years ago, when I got sent on a 'sort of' week's course to learn how to make moulds....the better to understand the process of making the wee men.
Having warmed the rubber mould....I'd pressed the green master into it, to get an approximate shape..... which then needed to be carefully picked out with a scalpel, before the two halves of the mould would be heated and pressed together, with the master sandwiched between them....this time to make a hopefully perfect mould of the original master.

While I was 'cutting away'...a visitor came into the room....Saw me doing this, and said something along the lines of....."Oh..that's how it's done....You have to carve them out of the rubber in reverse to make the mould."

I was about to put the chap right, when I got kicked under the table by the chap that was teaching me, and told to 'Shhh'.

I wonder if the poor visitor is still under the misapprehension that that's the way it's done.

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

Weren't the slate moulds for old German flats actually made that way?

[Ithoriel]

Weren't the slate moulds for old German flats actually made that way?

That's what I was told ... always the possibility that the chap who told me was the same one showing Techno the ropes 

[Techno]

Weren't the slate moulds for old German flats actually made that way?

'Flats' ?.....I could believe those being done that way....Or a method using something very similar.
Cheers - Phil.

[Fenton]

'Flats' ?.....I could believe those being done that way....Or a method using something very similar.
Cheers - Phil.

I thought the original German ones were done out of wood...the actual masters

[fsn]

I wonder if the poor visitor is still under the misapprehension that that's the way it's done.

Well yes, yes I am. Well, right up to this point.

How could you?!