Post #597469 by komohana on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 12:28 AM

friends, i got my poly-urethane foam carving done - and that's him hangin' on the door..

a couple progress pics for anyone interested..

6mm ply backing..(attached some wire mesh to the ply to help hold him on)..

lay on the foam..

i used 9 cans..

upside down with carving tool of choice...old bread knife..

..if anyone was interested in making themselves something like this
i'd tell them to go buy a slab of commercially available foam because
it has an even density through-out.
free forming it the way i did, there were a lot of voids that had to be filled,
so any money saved by spraying it yourself is lost in the time needed to go back
and patch it all up.

speaking of the voids, i had to go and buy another couple cans of p-u and while at
the hardware store, scored a tin of mis-tinted paint for him at about one fifth
the price, so that was a bonus i guess.

also made a coral reef diorama that was a lot of fun - simple things amuse simple minds. :lol:
the coral i'd had for years - mostly from Queensland - coloured with some water-colour paint,
shells, resin fish and plastic aquarium weeds - looks quite nice in person.
maybe one day will post closer pics.

still have lots of shells etc. to put on the fishing net

the opening in the ply will be a faux window, with the painting that mrs.komohana brought back from Bali in the centre.
scored some nice tastefull leopard skin to make a backing for that mask there and enough to re-upholster a radio chair i found.

[ Edited by: komohana 2016-03-22 05:27 ]