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hey...i was referring to the other abrevation...

and pic or it didn´t happen...show us yer skulls^^

Yeah, I know about the Frak My Life! LOL I was just messing around. I'm not quite sure what Vic was getting at though....

I have a nice collage printed out of skulls that I took home, I haven't gotten around to working on a Mk II skull yet, 4 month old was projectile vomiting last night....not fun, after the Haz Mat suits were put away I was dead tired!
Then we were awoken @ 2 AM with an encore. I can hardly keep my eyes open!

5 Hour Energy, my old friend....

Must be in the water. I got thrown up on last night and this morning by my 17 month old.

Eewwe! Solid food vomit much worse than milk vomit! I feel for you!

My 3 year old threw up ALL over the living room about 4 months ago... we still find bits of dried up-chuck from time to time...behind the TV, stuck to the back side of the coffee table legs...the cat....

holy gak... yeah i know these are happy times...in 20 years...then you will laugh about this.... now you feel tortured by small kids... had that with every kid...and from my point of view there is little that you could do about it... sometimes it is the food the missus eats... sometimes it is just the growing up of the kids...so keep your head up! i cross fingers for you to be all up and about soon (in the best sense of that meaning!)

oh and there might have been an "i" missing in that abrevation i meant... but then it gets a bit naughty and i wouldn´t want to ruin your thread with such things^^

Well, vik, at least you didn't replicate the "moustache" thing

i think i have to cut short on the fugly pics i post... some peeps have shown me that this might lead to harassments^^

Thanks for your well wishes Vic! Yes, this is a trying time, but in all other respects my youngest is a darling! I just don't like vomit.

And I get it now! MLF! MIssing an "I"! Yes, there is nothing wrong with that! I live with one!

lol...me too...wouldn´t have it any other way^^

Its Geek sheik, all the good looking girls want a geek on their arm

RSJake wrote:Thanks Ferret! I'll be watching your blog, are you going to post them there?

I will be, yes.

I need to get some putty to start with though as my greenstuff is awol.

What are you using? Procreate? I have heard good things about it.

Yep, ProCreate. My favorite. The first batch of ProCreate I bought was from overseas, as it was the cheapest I could find, but I have since found a cheaper source:
http://www.frpgames.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=45722&ref=goog
I need to order some soon, so I will be using FRP Games. I haven't used them before, so I don't know how fast they ship.

I wish DickBlick had it, I have bought from them, and they ship super fast!

I just noticed you're in Lynnwood! I used to live there too! About 2 mile NW of the I-5/405 interchange! I liked it, I just wish fewer people lived there, or I'd still be there!

So... just got a tiny package of TINY guns! Wheee!

Contents look good, though the stock broke off the long gun. Should be easy to fix, and early next week I will be straining my sanity making a TINY sprue for the tiny guns

Seriously, sweet zombie jesus, these things are psychotically small. My kitten sneezes out bigger bunches of snot than these.

Yay! Glad you got it! I was afraid the stock would break...again...that was why the bag was taped to the styrene. I glued it, and then sculpted the extra sides, but it wasn't the strongest. I hope you can glue it or something.

yeah, they are small. I am still recovering my eyesight from working on them!

Great idea on the styrene, I think that really saved them considering they were crammed into my mail box with a HUGE package that should have been dropped at my door.

I will probably get cracking on them next week like I said; gotta get some Brushfire stuff finished in the mean time.

I have not been impressed with the USPS lately. But it's cheaper, so what are you gonna do?

Next week is fine. I might have the Centaurs done by then! Who knows?

Wehrkind wrote:Seriously, sweet zombie jesus, these things are psychotically small. My kitten sneezes out bigger bunches of snot than these.

LOL got to Sig that

Ooo Centaur progress. *Cheer*

Well, not as much done this weekend as I had hoped. My wife was out of town for business on Friday and Saturday, leaving my with the 2 kids, one of which is still breast feeding. Yeah, that was fun!

Anyway, I got a bit done, mostly on a tutorial for making Vanilla Marines into Plage Marines.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/433013.page#3969631

And I made a new mold! Yay! Still no pressure pot, but it came out ok!
I forgot to take before pics of the Lego mold frame, but here it is right after curing:


And here is what I was making a mold of. I had sculpted a cool World Eater icon on a shoulder pad a while ago, and I had made a Press mold of it that turned out pretty good, but I had like 5 that did not turn out, and I thought that was a waste of GS. So I used the original and the best copy for the mold.


Here is the mold next to the pads after I removed them from the cured mold.


And here is what the mold looks like after I cut out the pads. This was my first 2 part mold, and I was nervous!


And the results. One came out perfect...one came out looking like it was in pain....I had to put it out of it's misery.


After I made one one ot the connecting tubes a bit bigger for each pad, I did one more batch before work, and they both came out great! Well, one had a bad bubble, but it can be filled with GS and will look fine.

Also, if you ever wondered why you need to make a mold frame, even if you just have very tiny and thin pieces to cast....

This is why. I had some sprockets I wanted to cast, so I just layed them out on a sheet of styrene, and poured the mold rubber over them. I'm glad I stopped when I did, it almost ran over the side. And one of the pices floated up, so stick them down with glue or something! The good news is, the "flow mold" as I shall call it, still works! I have made a couple of the sprockets! It takes less than one drop of resin!

RSJake wrote:Well, not as much done this weekend as I had hoped. My wife was out of town for business on Friday and Saturday, leaving my with the 2 kids, one of which is still breast feeding. Yeah, that was fun!

Lol! Are you lactating at the moment then 'Jake?

*L* Fun with molds!

One thing you can do when you make an open top mold like your sprockets is to slice small cuts in the silicone after the fact to connect them. Sometimes easier than building a sprue ahead of time. I had the same problems with my old base molds though. Live and learn. A lot of learning when it comes to casting!

Also, you might find that molds work better with the parts side by side longways instead of back to back like your shoulder mold there. That way you can have one spine of sprue going across both allowing the resin to level between them that way, as well as making it easier to get the stuff out.

Monkeyh - No. I'm not. It would be way too hard to get the hairs out of her mouth all time!

Wehrkind. Good call on the cuts to connect the sprockets! I'll think it though a bit more next time. It's just that after I poured the mold for the shoulderpads, I had a lot of rubber left, and didn't want to waste it, so I was hurrying, and not thinking it through.

And setting up the shoulder pads in a line is also a great idea! Again, not really thinking it through, just experimenting.

Thanks! I think I'll set up a mold for the sprockets tonight!

LOL... sorry dude but that flat pancake of a mould...lol...

yeah learning curve sometimes is a killer^^

but you have to realize...you are making breat entertainment at least for us^^

by the way... does a mold have to be that big for a mre small peice to be later getting out? i am at a loss of knowledge...but wouldn´t it have been better to put even more items inside such a mold?


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oh and i forgott... you have to be a truly brave man... alone at home with to small kiddies...and one even still breastfeeding... did she get milk from the can? or did your wife pump it up for you? we did both during the early days...but our sweet oscar only liked the real thing...ah those happy times when the whole house thinks you are torturing your kids ...even tho you just want to feed them...

Thanks Vic!

Yeah, I realized the framless mold was a mistake even as I was pouring it. Oh well, live and learn. From what I understand you want at least one half inch or about 12 mm of mold rubber covering the object and on the each side so the mold doesn't collapse and deform the cast. And I think the bigger and more complicated the mold, the easier it is for things to go wrong. At least it feels like it.

And yes, the wife left a good supply of freshly pumped "juice" for the youngling! I hope our neighbors didn't think I was beating the children all weekend! I mean I wasn't beating them ALL weekend!

ROFL... you just want to give them the bottle and they look at it like...wtf?? where is that soft warm and snuggly one i usually get... ??



i think this serves as a good warning to take casting too lightly^^ i for one will skip out on that for now^^ but i hope your next one will be better...because some of your products actually look very good!

LOL! I don't remember the name of that show, but the baby always yelled "Not the Momma! Not the Momma!" LOL

Yeah, I still have some very important equipment to get before I start casting stuff to sell, and that's a ways down the line. Vacuum chamber and pressure pot topping that list.

All this stuff so far is just for me, and if there are mis-casts....well, I'll just fix them!

good attitude!

we called it the dinosaurs... dunno if that is the english name... but i used to love this show...and it was very much to the point with the bottle nipple swap...^^

i think it was called the dinosaurs in the us too. stuffs looking good rs.

My Son loves the boobie But luckily now its not so tricky when he is left with me as he is old enough to distract with toys and Bananas

Yes Dinosaurs! How silly of me to forget!

My youngest takes the bottle just fine, so a frozen supply of "Momma Juice" is sufficeint for extended periods....it just leaves me with ZERO hobby time!

I'm finally catching up on sleep, I might be able to do something constructive soon! Yay!

By the way, I have been thinking about new stuff to make. There is a method for "cold" casting bronze and other metals, using metal powder and resin. I want to make Steampunk Gaming Dice. With cogs sprockets and rivets and such....what do you guys think?

Bewbs and dinosaurs...All is well on Jake's thread