Post #458700 by squid on Wed, Jun 3, 2009 1:16 PM

Thanks everyone for the comments.

Benjamin, thanks for stopping by! I just found your thread and WOW! Really nice work. Between you, Baï and Laojia, France is overloaded with tiki talent.

AlohaStation: Hurts the brain, don't it? Let me 'splain it it to you Lucy :) The casting is the second step to produce a master model. Production molds will be made of that when it's fully tweaked.

The casting is a very rigid tooling wax. You can machine it, file it, sand it and cut in really tight detail without fear of mushing what you've already done. Plus you can fill in holes or add to the form with a wax pen. It's basically a precision soldering iron with variable temperature. Hope that clears up the technical stuff :)

Coco Joe: I think you and Reign are just great! I'm working on the heroes of prog-rock mug series as we speak.

Hi Clarita!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm yelling because I know you're very far away :wink:

Pdrake: Blame Gecko for all that awesome detailing. I'm just giving him a blank canvas. I think that relationship is turning out rather well. Plus, he is the Glazemeister General!

More pics (hopefully finished) tonight.