Wednesday 19 January 2011

Test Cast


This is the test cast (with the final eyes in), I did this first one in pigmented PlatGel 00 because I'd already used PlatGel 10 earlier on in the year and wanted to see if 00 was any different to work with.

From this tester, I've noticed the base colour of the PlatGel isn't quite what I want for the final cast, it is slightly too transparent.

Unfortunately, I ordered my R8 foam a little too late for it to arrive in time to go into this cast so I had to go with expanding foam from a can. This didn't fill the inside of the bust properly and I had to make an incision in the back of the neck and fill the empty space with Fastcast, making this tester quite heavy. This is much less likely to happen when using the R8 foam.