Post by Prop-Builder on Nov 7, 2009 9:51:34 GMT -5
Here's a test sculpt I did of a mined rock. There're two ways of doing this. One is to cast a rock piece in resin or plaster, paint it, then fill in the hole with the amber resin (and bug too of course). The other way is to just cast a large rocky piece with amber clear resin and laminate inside the mold surface some rock dust material to get the covering. Then polish up the window area as desired.
Until I get some rock dust material, I'm going for the 'cast rock in resin/plaster' technique. This seems to be the method favoured by fan prop builders.
The area for the amber pour is still plugged up with clay, but I will remove that later. I have placed a small chunk of amber I made alongside the clay sculpt. I like to stick this in the hole as I sculpt to get some idea as to how it might look!
Until I get some rock dust material, I'm going for the 'cast rock in resin/plaster' technique. This seems to be the method favoured by fan prop builders.
The area for the amber pour is still plugged up with clay, but I will remove that later. I have placed a small chunk of amber I made alongside the clay sculpt. I like to stick this in the hole as I sculpt to get some idea as to how it might look!
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