I've had a project with the oil barrels kicking around in my head. Originally I thought I would just be casting offf
of a couple dozen barrels and stack them however to produce an
interesting piece.
Easy peazy
Enter the NOVA Open.
Suddenly I'm looking to get an
easy feature add to tables that wasn't just a repetitive element but could
offer a bit of customization. The random stacked mass of barrels is
not going to cut it for build time. To much gluing and waiting to
produce the numbers we need in a reasonable time frame.
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They get moved four at a time on
pallets. Ah, hell I can do that and it creates a
dense little stackable block.
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From here it takes off into a set of
mold n casts. Probably extraneous, but years of time on a computer
has left me a bit twitchy without undoes.
I cast the barrels a while ago when
this project first started kickin around. So they're around in mass
just need the pallet and to get it all together.
Rolled out a slab of super scuptly to
even thickness; trimmed it square and baked it solid.
If you've not taken this stuff for a
test drive yet it's worth your time. Pros: Little less like sculpting
with used bubble gum and doesn't set till you bake it. Cons: not as
resistant to abuse and will chip and in some cases shatter. After a bake and some carving I gots me
a fair pallet.
Casting time.
At this point I have the pieces I'll
need for this project and the means to produce more should some stage
of my experiments go tits up.
First production run(s) was using
dental stone. Maybe it had a bad childhood. Maybe I wasn't attentive
enough. Maybe it was full of fail. Maybe I'll try again.
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removed for fail]
Next run produced usable product. I switched casting materials, suddenly usable casts. Fickle son
of a.. but I digress.
From here it's a coast downhill. Got
barrels and something to stack them on. Add a spot of glue an... crap
that's a lotta negative space on the center of those.
The sculpty comes back, this time as a
gap filler. Brew up a couple grams of goop and boom barrels are fused
together and negative space is mitigated.
One last cast to make. Seriously take a
moment to consider your mold. The more time you spend on making this
part clean the easier life will be later.
Finished mold and cast.
Cast off a couple more to check how
well these would stack and scale.
Now it's back to start to make versions
with 2 an 3 barrels on the pallet to add variance to finished “stack”
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