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I see what your talking about. But if you were to hole them out you could make it look like a brain... UUmmm Brains... Brains..... BRAINS!!!!! (LOL)
Very nice work on what you have here and thanks so much for sharing the info.

**Question UnOrthodOx

what kind of spray(??) did you use to cover the clay filling in the holes in the skull you cast your mold from. **xcan you remove the clay after the casting?
I got a liquid latex mold from AC More with a 40% off yesterday and to it is 50% off the next one.

Sealing the clay would not be completely neccesary. You'ld just have to be willing to clean off the clay from the mold prior to casting in it.

In fact, I did not seal the mold builder at all, and just manually cleaned it off. (peals off easy) The Air Dry claw I used for mold 2 is a finer grain, and would therefore be more difficult to clean off completely, so, I sealed with just a spray paint clear lacquer. In such a case, it would be 'removable' but you would need to sand/scrape/remove the lacquer, most likely.

Cool thank you
I was also asking... could you clean the clay from the skull to use in another project?I have an older model skull I got for my Airbrush studies, that I can use. and I also got AMACO rubber latex, for casting the inner mold. and some magic mold.
I also got some **none drying clay**. I was thinking of applying it to the surface of the skull to form more interesting fetchers, and or expressions.

It's probably an oil base clay, then. And, I have no experience with that in reguards to how it reacts to latex molds. Oil is typically not great for latex, but I don't think there's a whole heck of a lot of it in the oil clays.

What I would do is make a tiny model out of the clay and dunk it in the latex. Let that latex dry, if it peels off, you should be fine.

The only time I've used a 'wet' clay, we had a little trouble getting it cleaned off the latex mold. In fact, it made 2-3 plaster skulls with little bits of clay imbedded in them before it was all out. Not a problem for plaster, but would be for the 'crystal'.

Ok, a pair of those would be absolutely perfect for my next prop... Unfortunately I definitely do not have the resources to build those for myself... Is there a way I could put an order in for a pair of those from the UnOrthodOx.com website? (Ill even pay for the over ngiht delivery since it would take me less then 10 minutes to pick them up!! OGDEN, UTAH?)

(It is great to see a fellow haunter on here from Utah!!! As you can see I have been away for a little while... )

That is simply amazing work... Thanks for posting!!!

Originally Posted by REV

Ok, a pair of those would be absolutely perfect for my next prop... Unfortunately I definitely do not have the resources to build those for myself... Is there a way I could put an order in for a pair of those from the UnOrthodOx.com website? (Ill even pay for the over ngiht delivery since it would take me less then 10 minutes to pick them up!! OGDEN, UTAH?)

(It is great to see a fellow haunter on here from Utah!!! As you can see I have been away for a little while... )

That is simply amazing work... Thanks for posting!!!

I'm not entirely opposed to the idea of selling some stuff. But, really have no idea how to even get set up for that. But, were you to, say, swing by one day with a little cash, I have been known to let a few things go from the garage in the past...

But, for the moment, I'm about a month out before I can make some more. All the nearby Michaels are out of the resin for some reason... and are not getting more in soon, so I'm waiting on an order to come in from Delvies, and then we're painting and reflooring the entire upstairs in the house, so propwork will be put on hold for that for a few weeks too.

Sounds like you are very busy!!! Thanks for replying... Ill bother you later. If you need an extra hand with flooring let me know. Always willing to throw my back out.

The power was out most the day Sunday, so not much to do but cast another crystal skull.

This would be design #2.

Among the features being that it requires about 1/2 the resin, and the carved design, IMO, looks great in 'crystal'. Where a more 'realistic' skull has that supernatural "how do they do that" feel, I think this stylized version makes it feel more tribal. Perhaps made in reverence to the truly mystical 'real' one. I don't know, still playing with the idea of these.



Love all the little facets and how they all catch the light different.



Next to skull 1, for comparison.



I would note that I bought some of that surface curing agent for this one. And I'm most unimpressed. I'm thinking the best way to get rid of that tacky feel is to spray them with some lacquer after they're fully cured and cooled.

Next up, I'm dying some to make an amber one and a ruby one.