The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #389 and Like a H90 and Like a Hood Ornament #47: Rocketeer Minifigure Resin Casting Updates and Making a Game Piece 2ood Ornament #46: Rocketeer Minifigure Sculpt-along
https://archive.org/download/podcast-390/Podcast%20390.mp3
This week, I’m continuing a project started back in episode 384, making a little game piece of the Rocketeer. My progress on that project was forestalled due to a batch of bad silicone, and it took awhile to get a new batch. I ended up switching to a different line within the Smooth On catalog called Mold Star 16 (since I could find it), and it ended up working out great. To celebrate, I made little cup molds of all the pieces of the Rocketeer mini figure parts I made last time (arms, legs, torso, head) as well as finally making a mold of the Rocketeer board game piece I prepared for molding in episode 384.
I had fairly low expectations of how the game piece would turn out, but once I broke in the mold, it actually worked quite well despite the complexity and intricacy of the game piece.
I used one of the copies of the game piece to extract copies of the rocetpack and the helmet to modify the Hero Clix figure to the left (which I sanded down a bit to prepare it for the clay additions below – adding to the arms, making the chest bib with the buttons, and the jodhpurs). It will then need to be sanded down once cured to smooth it all out.
I attached the head using a pin to hold it in place (in addition to some superglue). I also angled the hed so it is looking a bit right, toward the upraised hand. It just felt more dynamic a pose. I just need to flesh out the smoke in back with some additional clay, sand things down, and then prime it for painting.
The first resin Rocketeer minifigure duplicate made from the figure we created last week. So far, I made four of them.
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