3D Workshop & Latex Cast

The alginate was very thin on the tip of the nose so I had to work around that. I entered the workshop at 10 AM so I can get a look at the materials shed as well and began with a plaster cast from the alginate mould.

First I filled my bowl with plaster powder then I added equal amounts of water for the amount I need to fill up my alginate mould, and then I grabbed multiple handfuls of plaster powder into the bowl till its half way peeking out so it can look like 'half iceberg half sea' it took around 4 handfuls for me then I waited for two mins as I mixed it. I then poured the plaster into the mould and then tap the surface with a stick to pop any air bubbles, the alginate mould was balanced onto a bowl to keep it levelled. After it was done drying I removed it from the alginate and repeated the process one more time just in case I ruin the first cast as the mould was still viable for one more round. I cleaned up any rough edges in the cast with some tools and rebuilt some areas such as the nose tip, once everything was complete I got my plastic mould.

I bought 250ml of liquid rubber latex and mixed in blue, yellow and red acrylic as I was pouring it in I noticed there was not enough latex to cover everywhere for 2 hours to build a first membrane so I keep pushing latex over the empty area but that plan did not work as well as I had hoped so I put the cast inside of the plastic mould with the latex inside hoping it would push the latex in every section which it did but because of the many accidents the surface was not as even as I wanted nor was the colour so I painted it with acrylics to achieve a realistic completion, I was not able to glue in individual eyebrow hairs like I would have wanted to but it worked out well in the end.

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