Princess Kaiulani

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RKapuaala said:
I will be offering 1:6 scale castings of Kaiulani for 40 dollars a kit plus shipping. The castings will be from FUD prints of the bust above. There will be two parts to the kit the head and the bust. They will be cast from Smooth On resin,,, not polyester base resin like you get from some of those cheap places on ebay,,, so no harsh smell and the molds will last longer.
If you are interested please pre order at http://scalehumans.com/PREORDER I need to get at least 5 orders to go into production. I will be able to start delivering within a month from reaching the required number of preorders.
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I recieved a poor print of the head from Shapeways and they are reprinting it. I will not be shipping as promised on July 29th. I will update this thread as soon as the new head arrives. I will keep this available for preorder till the castings are made, so if you still haven't ordered you may want to do so before they go into production and the price goes up.
 
Eduardo,
I have taken the print and put detail back in. It's taking me a long time to do, and I'm still not done, but I think I should finish it around about the middle of this month. It's still up on the PREORDER page if you are interested.
 
Tim,
I can tell you it's worth it. Think, you order prints any scale you want to cast in. The file is always there and if a print turns out bad, all you are adding is detail. The hardest parts are done. I'm even thinking of printing just armatures so I can sculpt on those because, I still like working with clay :)
 
thats a neat idea or maybe some rough blocked poses you can sculpt over.
wonder how much that would be. guess i'll need to ask the Company down the road from me. will you get a replacement print due to the previous poor quality? be nice if they'd print it in nicer material as a compensation....
do post some pics of the new one when you get it. i am very interested to see. i am getting quite in to the digi stuff. its cleaner and less messy for making Masters or one offs.

atb Richard -- tim :)
 
Tim,
You can save a lot of money by making your prints hollow. Then after it arrives and you clean it up real good, just poor some resin in. I vacuum my RTV when I make molds, and even though the hollow figures hold up fine in a vacuum without resin inside them, I just don't want to risk it.
 
thanks for that Richard,
i'm not too hot on mold making other than doing waste molds in putty. i'd sure love to get a pressure pot but am broke at present. but its on the list, right below a 3D Printer! :)

hollow is fairly easy in zbrush, you can tell dynamesh to 'create shell' and specify a thickness. darned cool function! i'll bear it in mind when i have something ready. though if i am honest, i am none to sure at which point a sculpt is 'ready'...... my idea is to talk to the printer and get feedback on when i am on the mark i guess. seems best way to learn.


atb --tim
 
Tim,
You can get a cheap ass pressure pot from home depot,,, they are called paint pots and the come with a pressure gauge so all you need is a few fittings amounting to about 20 USD and you're in business. It can be used for vacuuming and pressure. I bought 3/4" 15x15 inch acrylic sheet on ebay. Drilled and taped a hole for a nipple in the center and I use that on my vacuum pump. You should be able to pick up a good vacuum pump from ebay for around 150 USD.
 
thanks for that Richard. good price :)
i found one here thats cheap but just dont have the cash at present. :( i guess that once i add up all the import and tax , my dollar savings might amount to roughly the same. its ok though, i'll concentrate on the CG and aim to have something printed.... :)

atb Richard -- tim
 
I feel your pain Tim. I haven't been able to find a steady job in 5 years since the last company I worked for got bought out and sold. I make a little off the figures, but most of it goes back into the figures. If it wasn't for my savings (which is almost gone now) and my wifes salary, I would be sculpting on the streets. Fortunately I bought all my equipment when I was gainfully employed and more than flush. I never got much of a chance to use it back then,,, some weekends, but it has proven to be indespensible in my current economic crisis.
 
in the same situation with no wife's salary (or wife! lol.) and selling my Marvel statues on ebay to get by. guess they turned out to be a sorta savings bond. i'd like to make a modest living off sculpting but i tend to find i am out of ideas as most things have been done so many times. been nosing at the idea of art bronzes and have a lead but thats all. every one is hurting i guess.
keep on sculpting though Richard. :)

atb --tim :)
 
Tim,
Sorry to hear you are down to selling your own collection. I am hanging on to the few good pieces I have till the pry them out of my cold dead fingers. That goes for my HO brass as well. I won't part with them on ebay, in fact my last attempt to sell them off on ebay ended with me bidding on and wining a few good pieces at incredible savings, so I put an end to that endevour so as not to go bankrupt :(
They say do something you like and you'll never work a day in your life. Well that maybe true, but if you're not real careful you'll never make a penny in your life either ;)
 
so true.... ah well something usually turns up.
i am kinda bored with superheroes anyway and had been looking again at historical and militaria for inspiration. i collected Bowen figures and bought them to look at and measure/learn from. Scaled at 1/8th or 1/7, they have a nice size head and height but i am dumping the 8 3/4 heads props though; can you imagine Princess K with a lower leg that long!!? lol. fine in comics though.
i was taught quite a cool illusion by a Life Sculptor which works well; sculpt an 8 heads figure then slightly increase the head size a tad giving the figure a modern look and props that are more realistic. good trick.

btw, i do think you should have gotten a better print as a replacement for the poor one. i was thinking that the whole point of digi is to sallow you to do detailed figs and get nice one offs that you could then mold if you want to. otherwise its easier to hand sculpt Princess K.....

atb --tim :)
 
Tim,
They did send me a replacement, but it was worse than the first. I agree with you the hand sculpt, but one thing you can't do with the hand is rescale the figure to fit the needs of my other hobbies. This 1:6 scale bus is just part of full figure I will scale down to 1:12, 7/8ths, 1:20 scales.
I've noticed that shapeways has an issue with printing the larger figures. They seem to scale up the erorrs and scale down the detail. They tell me they are trying to improve, and I am willing to hang in there with them till they get better, or I buy my own printer.
 
thts certainly the benfit of digital to a kit maker/freelancer. there's another firm i have seen folks saying they had used called Ownage who do prints. folks seemed well disposed toward them. maybe worth a quote for you Richard if their stuff turns out to be a good as rumored. they print quite alot of detailed stuff for Warcraft fans i hear.
shame the replacement was .... bobbins... :)

atb Richard --tim
 

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