made a first test cast for some chicken heads with eyes in the mold and think it came out alright! had some issues with the resin where it foamed up (i think it was too old) causing this pink color instead of the semitransparent red i was trying to make. Had some bubbles i had to resculpt in the comb and eyelids. I just used bubble eyes because I didn’t expect him to turn out very well but honestly i wish i’d just gone for it and used his proper chicken eyes because this would be totally usable otherwise and this first cast surprisingly held all his little face feathers! Excited to keep experimenting with molds.
Looks awesome! I have a rooster with a huge comb I’m planning on casting. Did you just use a custom resin mold? I have plaster of Paris and some other stuff
made a mold out of silicone and poured in resin! silicone was econosil-25 from silpak and resin was colormatch resin from smooth-on. this was a test for a much bigger-combed rooster!
Nice! Looks great!
Awesome!
You may cast the head moults without the eyes in the original head so you can fit proper eyes in after the head is done using clay. I never heard of a method where you cast the eyes into the head as this does not allow for fine tuning.
They explained in the text that this was a test
So then why exactly should I not give feedback to make it better? Isn't the purpose of a test run to determine where improvements can be made?
I misread the post, sorry, i thought OP had done casts before and was trying with eyes in..
yep! part of it was that i wanted all of it to be the same opacity of resin so i wouldn’t have to paint the clay to match perfectly, but my resin got messed up this pour so i had to sculpt and paint anyway lol.