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Photo taken by Volker Kreidler back in 2011!More pictures of the finished sculpture: [link] or in my gallery!
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you are really talanted! did someone order thet sculpt or did you make it for fun? C:
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made it for "fun", but sold it in the end luckily!
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oh, cool! c:
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da wΓΌrd ich ja gern mal ne stunde beim arbeiten zugucken
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This is very nice!
Looked at your website. You are a very talented as a sculptress and painter.
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Awesome work, interesting photo... I'd like to do something like this...
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steel armature, polystyrene, varaform, rubber milk, ...
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im not familiar with rubber milk, i want to do a dinosaur made or polystyrene but i dont know what to do when it comes to skin texture
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well, there are different ways of doing skin texture...in this particular case I sculpted some skin in clay, made a plaster mold and pured the rubber milk into the mold to get a flexible skin that I glued on the coated polystyrene body.
Good luck with your dinosaur!
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thats a great idea maybe i can produce sheets of it when my sample gets approved we have to do close to life sized dinosaur models
what do you do to attach the ends of every sheet what do you use to glue the whole thing on the octopus body since its not symmetrical and full of curves can it endure outside conditions im in the mideast and its freakin hot here during summer time, those dinosaurs are part of a theme park my boss said. i didnt go to any art school only experience and self thought so im lacking in knowledge so sorry to bother you
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It's fine!
Unfortunately it's not made for being used outside. You'll need to cover it with some kind of epoxy or resin or whatever...but to be honest, I don't think using rubbermilk is the best way of doing the skin texture for something that size, it was just the cheapest and fastest way when I did it back then, because I didn't have access to resin/fiber glass/etc. "Normally" when you make something that is used outside you'll need to make a negative (silicon) mold of your sculpted/carved piece and then use fiberglass/epoxy/resin/polyester to make a nice (hollow) positive that resists all kinds of weather.
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you can also just sculpt in polystyrene an cover it with a nice coat of epoxy then fiberglass but it depends on the final texture you want.epoxy alone works fine also but it's a lot more expensive than fiberglass. If you don't want to spend time and money on molds...
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Thank you very much i will
Keep that in mind have to ask abu yoseff as to how can we preserve the texture when doing fiber
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