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Old 06-13-2010 | 04:28 AM
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Default RE: Scale poseable pilot making

No worries Brad, that happens to us from time to time as well.

I've posed the gloves and they've been cut in wax but as yet I haven't moulded them. We've been trying out adding goggles to the mesh(by 3D drawing them on) to see how they come out. We constructed a pair of Spitfire goggles with the split lenses and added the strap and other detail and I'll put a couple of pics of the wax model up. It's still in it's rawest state without any smoothing but in the meantime it will give you an idea of how it's going. There was a hick up during cutting so it had to be done again (lucky the wax can be easily recycled, just back into the pot!) and the new one will be ready tonight, it's cutting now. Tomorrow I'll give it a smoothing off with steel wool to remove any tooling marks then add stitching detail into the wax before moulding version 5!

It's absolutely freezing here which will really slow the basil up so maybe we'll have even more time in the coming weeks. And yes it does get cold in the sub-tropics, especially once you acclimatise! We got down to single figures last night []

More progress pics soon hopefully.

cheers
Patti
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