Wow, it's been a long time since my last update. Sorry!
Most of last week was all about NI Week, a big conference/sales show that National does in the middle of August.
Outside of that, I had all the usual stuff to do... you know the drill. Though at work I've been making a pest of myself and am now being funneled into starting some difficult (and necessary) work towards improving the design environment there. But that's a long, proprietary story.
Saturday was the first build day at Haunted Trails. And by "build" I mean "moving shit around". We did, however, stack (mostly neatly) about fifty "flats" (which are just flimsy walls).
I've been putting together the plaster mold for Marla's arm too. I poured the first half on... umm... Saturday? I forget. It all blends together these days.
I decided to make it a three-part mold (which I've never done before), even though it gives me an extra seam that I don't want. Because I don't think a two-part mold would come apart. There appears to be a structural undercut that I just can't avoid, due to the curvature of her fingers.
So I just poured the third part about an hour ago.
I've been making these nifty little plastic pins, in the shape of the alien logo, for use by the aliens in the show. I got my shipment of cool casting supplies on Friday (woot!) so I tried to make a bronze pin. It's pretty nice.
The humidity is killer, though. I tried a second pin yesterday and it swelled up all nasty like. I cast one indoors, and it swelled up more than I like. I then made a third one, outside, and it FOAMED.
Extreme humidity, which has been hovering at around 112% these days (supersaturated, hot, wet... more wet than standing in a shower), is really really bad for polyurethane I think.
I'll try again later, when water droplets stop condensing out of the air into my plastics.
Likewise, I'm going to hold off on making more polyurethane rubber molds, too.
Finally, Marla is back in work and getting paid again! Much better. She bought me some dance sneakers today. They are nice.
Posted by Edwin at August 22, 2004 04:33 PM