Humpback Whale breaching

[Nap]

Hi Adrian

Missed this one ..one very nasty monkey , painted well and presented

Nap

 

[Dr Bison]

This seems to be one of those cases where scientists undertake strange experiments on hapless creatures...
In this case, Dr Nap has successfully merged "Lucy" - our common African ancestor - with one the biggest mammals of our times to create, on his keyboard a one-off whonkey, the so-called Humpback Ape (Megaptera afarensis napus)...
Cheers
Karl

 

[arj]

Super work with the whale Adrain, and thank you for your S.B.S..
That was some very intricate work.
I missed being able to comment on 'Lucy' since I still hadn't joined PF, so it was nice to see this again.
Hence my belated comment of 'excellent work' on your earlier presentation.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Ferris]

Thanks guys.
Nap is helping me add an old thread about Lucy (from 2013; how time flies) to my vBench and it has been temporarily mixed with my recent whale thread. Trust they will be disentangled soon.

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[Ferris]

Thanks for you responses and likes guys! Glad you like it.

Here’s some background on how I did the water:

1. Mould made of plexiglass. Sea surface was sculpted with wax on a sheet of plastic card that was held up by a cardboard spacer. This had an opening to fit the whale. The waves were shaped around it. The whale’s tail was already painted.




The spacer:



2. Next was pouring silicone rubber over the waves.


View attachment 439081


View attachment 439082

3. Next step was to pour plaster over the silicone rubber. This was to keep the silicone rubber in place during the next steps, and to prevent leaking of epoxy past the silicone layer. It also fixed the whale in position temporarily.

View attachment 439083

4. Turning the whole thing upside down and removing the cardboard spacer, plastic sheet and waves sculpted in wax.


View attachment 439084

5. Pouring the epoxy resin, hardening and removing the plexiglass mould to reveal the rough cast.

 

[Joe55]

It took some serious patience along with a sprinkling of skill, to come up with that nifty little display.

Beautiful work Adrian!

Joe

 

[Ferris]

Thanks Joe!

 

[Giwe]

Awesome work, i really like this!!!

 

[Steve Brodie]

Brilliant, simply brilliant.

 

[Edorta]

Very nice work, I love it.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

 

[Ned Ricks]

Well done, indeed!

 

[Steve Ski]

For goodness' sake, Adrian, that is one incredible piece of work. I can see the amount of time you put into this, incredible work!

 

[Ferris]

Thanks a lot for commenting guys!

I noted some of the pictures disappeared, just re-loaded them.

Cheers,
Adrian