My little piddies are worn to little nubbins... I can barely type... but I have the first half of the plaster block mold poured onto the leg.
I also did a bunch of finish work on the knives... the paint I got, though, sucks badly. They are going to need some different finish. But the trick knife is tricky. I didn't mess with the stuck-on knife yet, but I intend to still. I don't know when this effect is scheduled yet, so I don't know what rush I'm in.
Leafing through next week's scene list I got a little shocker... they scheduled a severed hand appearance without mentioning it to me. And I didn't even HAVE the schedule in hand until the evening of the 11th. That is not much heads-up... so I complained.
They really need to keep me in the loop if they want stuff to get done on schedule. I'm actually beginning to get rather cranky about this.
My time log only shows nine hours for yesterday's work and eight for today's... a pittance compared to the 12 and 14 hours logged on site last weekend! But a busy pittance, wrapped around shopping and some of the other realities of life that are getting harder and harder to schedule.
Most of yesterday was spent heating up clay to cast. Two batches. That stuff takes *forever* to melt, since I really don't want to burn it.
In between stirs, I did cleanup and prep work on the knives.
That was pretty much Saturday. Much less than I had hoped for.
Today I extended the sculpture, cleaned away the bad texture (damn hair, made a mess of things), gave it new texture (who knew that water coolers have such cool texture?), set it in a mold box, laid in backing clay, and cast about 50lbs of plaster over it.
I also painted the knives, inhaled fumes, ate lunch, went shopping, and wrapped the handle of my Saber so it won't fly out of my weakened grip tomorrow during practice.
Oh, and I e-mailed Robert to get his hand molded on Tuesday, so I can cast it Thursday/Friday to use on Saturday. Or was it Sunday? Not that it matters...
I also need to flip the leg and cast the back half, prep the capsule gun (did I mention I made a pneumatic gelatin capsule gun? It's cool...), and do god knows what else for call on Saturday AM.
I'm almost but not quite regretting doing this. It would be okay if only the scheduling was prepared in advance. Or, if Sandra is correct and they HAD the hand schedule for over a week, if they would JUST GIVE ME THE DAMN SCHEDULE earlier.
Okay... chatted with Sandra a bit. Sounds like I'm getting info pretty close to real time. It's just that "real time" is kinda last minute still. We'll survive.
Posted by Edwin at May 15, 2005 07:53 PM