Practice Makes Progress (Have A Great Day) Laz - Tiki Carving

T tikiskip Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Nov 26, 2005 Posts: 5993	T tikiskip Posted posted on Sun, Oct 12, 2014 12:40 PM Check out this thread as he is coating that foam that you are carving and making wall hangings. You could do this on your test run foam tiki. http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=48309&forum=18&14 "For this i used exterior latex primer wit a very little bit of powdered plaster mixed in. Im going to try to build the animatronic tiki poles frome the tiki room, but this time i want to try to use a liquid resin hard coat. Im just still researching it. there is also a concept drawing of Trader Sams Grog Grotto at WDW, showing a tentacle come throug a port hole holding a bottle of rum, that my boys really want me to try. just trying to figure out how to do the suction cups. really dont want to try to carve each of them individualy. the latex and plaster gave a really good surface with out to much build up. I got hte idea from several haloween websites, they call it monster mud, made out of premixed drywall mud and latex paint. i used powdered plaster, to keep the bulk down. i wanted a semi hard coat without the build up. my mix ratio was like 8 to 1 or 10 to 1, paint to plaster." Quote: gabemaita [ Edited by: tikiskip 2014-10-12 12:43 ]

Check out this thread as he is coating that foam that you are carving and making wall hangings.
You could do this on your test run foam tiki.
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=48309&forum=18&14

"For this i used exterior latex primer wit a very little bit of powdered plaster mixed in. Im going to try to build the animatronic tiki poles frome the tiki room, but this time i want to try to use a liquid resin hard coat. Im just still researching it. there is also a concept drawing of Trader Sams Grog Grotto at WDW, showing a tentacle come throug a port hole holding a bottle of rum, that my boys really want me to try. just trying to figure out how to do the suction cups. really dont want to try to carve each of them individualy. the latex and plaster gave a really good surface with out to much build up. I got hte idea from several haloween websites, they call it monster mud, made out of premixed drywall mud and latex paint. i used powdered plaster, to keep the bulk down. i wanted a semi hard coat without the build up. my mix ratio was like 8 to 1 or 10 to 1, paint to plaster."

Quote: gabemaita

[ Edited by: tikiskip 2014-10-12 12:43 ]

Post #729487 by tikiskip on Sun, Oct 12, 2014 12:40 PM