Progress!

Big post time! Might as well show what I've gotten done so far.

Started out first by spraying the whole sculpt with primer. This let me see any mistakes easier, fills in any tiny holes, and smooths everything out overall.

Sorry about the yard, mom.

Sand the heck outta it....

Do that a few more times and it's looking pretty swell! It's not perfect perfect but I got tired of sanding at this point.

Next is silicone time! I slathered a bunch of Rebound 25 on this baby.
Had to turn the thing upside down sometimes to keep if from dripping off under the chin and such.
While I was at it, poured some into some makeshift molds over the ears.
Fully covered! This is about four layers, I coulda gone thicker maybe but I wanted to get everything done and I was running low on silicone.
And lastly, plaster bandages!

When those are all dry tomorrow, I'm going to do the FRP. Then it's just waiting until that cures.



Oh, and one more thing...
Obligatory.

Went Shopping

More updates soon

Something Exciting!

Not much to report on mask progress, I continued sanding and patching today, then added some clay to the mouth to even the shape out a bit, it looks much cuter now. Just needs a bit of sanding then I should be good for the next step!


It's kinda hard to tell what's going on under all that splotchiness!

Anyhow, the exciting thing is, I won Kanakig's free mask drawing! I couldn't believe it! All I've gotta do is pay shipping and I'll have my first ever mask! Big thanks to Kana for offering up something like this. I'll be sure to show her off right away.

Small progess

Things are moving along again. I made repairs to the head form the best I could. The cracks were pretty bad! An entire chunk of the chin fell off, even! I was originally only going to use bondo, but I needed to do a lot of reconstruction with clay first.


You can see the slightly darker gray parts where I fixed stuff. The whole nose had to be sawed off and reshaped too, since the crack created asymmetry. I like how round it is now, though. The mouth still needs to be adjusted to be more centered, but I'll get to that later. Sometimes it just takes looking at things through a camera screen to notice symmetry flaws!

Next, I spent the next day giving her a Bondo Facial.


I did several layers for the remaining cracks, and then coated nearly the whole face in bondo, and sanded it down to help smooth out the nooks and crannies. I'll be finishing that up tomorrow. I don't know how smooth I'll try to get it at this stage, but anything will probably be better than sanding away at the finished fiberglass piece! Luckily since the back of the head will be covered in "hair", I only need to make that "good enough", heh.

Just a quick update

Back home from my trip, gonna continue work again. Hit a bit of a snag unfortunately, so will have to backtrack a bit. She's got a huge crack going from her chin to her forehead, and it got pretty wide. I'm gonna have to rebuild the nose, chin, and some of the mouth. Not a huge deal, shouldn't be more than another day of work. Bought some Bondo on the way back as well.