A bid of sculpting, casting and a little magic... (2 Viewers)

One single rubber band will be enough to secure the mould during the following casting process.

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Casting resin can become very messy indeed. To retain domestic peace sit the finished mould, secured by its envelope and the rubber band(s) into a dissposible vessel of any sort. Remember it has got to fit into the pressure pot.


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Actual casting of the resin will follow soon.
 
Finished to cast the figure.

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Use clear shot glasses to measure equal amounts of Part A and Part B. Poor both into a paper cup. Paper cups are best for this job as they can handle the heat generated by the kicking resin best. Furthermore you can form a simple pouring funnel by just squeezing the top half of the cup. Not well to see in this picture but it is there, does aid the pouring process very much - cheap, sturdy and available anywhere. Do not use anything made of plastic.


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First cast came out of the mould pretty well. Planed to cast a few more, It was than that I realised that my resin was long over it´s shelf life. Resulting in a even faster kicking mixture one the to parts where mixed. This resulted in a bubble on the backside of the helmet. Not good but issues like that can be solved by creating extra vents.
 
Use a brass pipe and sharpen the edges on one and. Than poke a hole into the rubber from the inside out.

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Not a very sharp picture but you can sport the little rubber spagetti that the brass pipe created.

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Much better now. See the effect of the additional vent in the resulting casting.
You need a pressure pot to achieve this result as gravity on its own is a much too weak force to do this job.


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Much better now.

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The laws of Optics are playing with this picture a little, but believe me they are all nice proportioned and equal to each other. None of them had to suffer.

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Still on the cat walk, ten all together. Better to have more Stabsärzte rather than only one Stabsarzt.

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I found a few nice patterns of German WW1 M16/M17 steel helmets showing the medic´s red cross symbol - can´t load them up all.




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Found some nice Austrian helmet samples as well.
 
Now I am happy to clean them all up, prime and paint them.
I will try to give every figure a different paintsheme, hemet actually.

When finished I will post a photo of it. In case you are interested on how this figure struck my attention and how it came to be, have a look here:


 

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