1st Casting

[RKapuaala]

1:6 scale Lincoln kit. These are castings from molds I made from a 3D prototype printed at Shapeways. The clean up was fairly easy as this is one of th 5 prints that came pretty much clean from them. I addeds some skin texture and cleaned up a few layer lines on the suit and the castigns came our really well IMHO.
I figure adding what I paid Shapeways to print them to the amount of time it cost me to clean them up, the cost was about the same as going to a high end printing service, the only difference is I didn't have to pay myself for the clean up so the full price was 45 USD to print. Note that like the Kalakaua print the head on this bust was printed separately.

 

[JasonB]

Looks great, especially considering the IMAX scale its in. Are you gonna be selling these?

 

[ChaosCossack]

Very nice finished product.
I'd like to see a painted version.

Colin

 

[Ethan]

Impressive! nice job on the face for sure!

 

[RKapuaala]

Jason, there are kits available on my site for 45 bucks, but they need some cleaning and mounting. I am not including either of those things so the kit really isn't the quality you would get from a regular vendor.
Colin, I'm working on a painted one now.
Thanks Ethan.

 

[swralph]

Nice one

 

[ChaosCossack]

Excellent... I look forward to it

Colin

 

[RKapuaala]

I got far enough along on the painting to assemble the parts. I took this shot to study my progress. I think I'm gona need to change the background so I can get a better idea of the colors.

 

[Eludia]

Looks good Ethan, both unpainted and painted

Cheers,
Billy

 

[Ethan]

Looks good Ethan, both unpainted and painted

Cheers,
Billy

LOL this is RK's wonderful work not my own; and I think that paint is coming along nicely! I agree a neutral grey or blue background would make him pop a bit more in the photography

 

[Eludia]

D'oh. forgive me

And that, children, is what happens when you look at a tiny screen with old worn-out eyes (and brain).

Anyhoo, where was I.....

Looks good RK, both unpainted and painted

Cheers,
Billy

 

[RKapuaala]

Not to worry Billy, old age has taken me too I didn't even notice you were addressing Ethan

 

[RKapuaala]

I've finished the skin on the face, now I'll move on to t he hair.

 

[lopee]

Nice. I wish I would have known how to sculpt in 3D. Well, I don't know. Who knows, knows, who doesn't know must... clap.

 

[taff edwards]

Cracking job must start looking into this 3D stuff looks fascinating
Cheers Chris

 

[Ethan]

Lookin Good!