Okay, it did in fact take about four hours to do the leg muscles last night. I note that I forgot to factor in dinner and random visits by ex-wives, but that's okay.
Using numerous sculpting and medical references, I laid in the three major muscles in the front of the leg. I kinda split the difference in their shape between the flat all-mushed-together look that muscles get when they are wrapped in skin, and the free-standing-round look that muscles can take when separated from their natural surroundings.
I'm hoping that the naturally squishy-yet-firm nature of gelatin will make it all work out.
Anyway, once sculpted together on the skeleton (with reference to the negative leg mold plus the positive core) I pulled 'em off and cleaned 'em up separately.
Then of course came the tedium of laying a floor of contrasting white clay around them and pouring the plaster slab on that. I'm not sure if I'll be happy with the seam line or not, since I'm trying harder to blend the clays together (so I don't get leaks), but still trying not to mar the model.
In this case, I don't actually care if I mar the model, but I still take care to see if I *can*.
Today after work I can pour the other side of the mold, mix up some gelatin, pour muscles, make blood, organize and pack, do some administrative work and print new photos, pre-assemble some head-hit packets, and pick up my son at the airport
/inhale
Or something.
Posted by Edwin at June 24, 2005 09:47 AM