Saturday was a joy! We had a dozen people show up for hte improv class (which was a lot of fun), and a couple more folks doing construction.
The Basin constructed an artificial crisis for us, which I refused to play along with. They all of a sudden HAD to have our storage corner cleared of our stuff! Now! Or soon!
That was OUR storage corner. They said so.
I didn't have the muscle available to do it, and I wasn't going to disrupt the improv class... so Chris, our liason, did it all himself. He wasn't happy.
In addition to that fun, we got word back from our parking area that we can NOT use that space for stations. So now we cut the whole first chunk out of the storyline and condense it into the van ride to the site. Bastards.
About a quarter of the tunnel section was assembled on Saturday. There were challenges and difficulties, as expected, but it's going together well enough. Strong!
I did a walkthrough with a group, including someone writing an article on Haunted Houses for the local newspaper. I'm beginning to see the potential in our plot... I always knew it was there, but I could feel the buildup better this time.
Sunday, I spent the whole day finishing the leg sculpture (yeah, I know, pictures...). It's not bad, maybe a bit overdone, or underdone, or something. I've never sculpted anything before, so I'm pretty happy with it.
But Saturday cooked my goose... I was all crispy by Sunday. So I took Monday off and rested. Mostly. Between resting, I slopped rubber all over the leg, making the mold. Today at lunch I may start the shell. Or I'll make some faces. Something.
Of course, in my hazy daze, I forgot to put on mold release... how the hell I keep forgetting this is beyond me. It's an important step. It shouldn't matter to the bits over the clay, since if worst comes to worst I can dissolve that out with solvent. It will, however, be a pain separating the mold rubber from the table and the bones supporting the sculpture.
Oh well.
I got a paper catalog from Smooth On. It's neat, and it appears to have a product or two that I never noticed on the website. A super-soft silicon, that I'm just going to have to try out. I'm going to look extra hard on the website to find it now.
The countdown clock says 18 days, 10 hours, 59 minutes, and 38 seconds until First Run.
It will be a miracle if we get it all together by then.
Posted by Edwin at September 28, 2004 07:53 AM