Throughout the week before my third session of sculpture, I decided it would be an idea to purchase some cheap toy guns, so that I had something to play around with in the lesson instead of working freehand with the clay, and moulding them would always be an option. I brought a couple of them and brought them into class.
One of them was made of very flimsy plastic, and so to begin with I unscrewed it so that it was then in two halves. Each half look fairly secure, and with a little bit of clay I filled in any holes there were, and then poured some plaster into one of the halves. However, after letting it set I discovered my plan had not gone down so well. I couldnt get the set plaster mould out of its shell, and it ended up breaking in the process of coming out.
I repeated the process again, however this time I decided to focus on the mould I could create, and so put the toy gun with the set plaster in it into the vacuum mould forming machine, and this gave me a very intricate and detailed mould, which I was extremely pleased with. I repeated this and made several more moulds, so that they could be used for other things. I filled one up with plaster, and just as id hoped I got an extemely detailed plaster cast.
Later on in the session, I experimented with algenate, which I was informed is the same stuff used when dentists want to make casts of peoples teeth when braces are needed. The powder is mixed together with water to create a solution, then it is poured into the mould and left to set for half an hour or so. I did this, and found the algenate facinating stuff, which waas gel like when it had set. I got another brilliant mould out of it, and made another plaster cast from it.
At the end of the day I took home my plaster moulds of my gun, which I knew I could use at home....
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