The final plaster model I made at 1/8th scale, so twice as big as the last study drawing I did. And man is it HEAVY!!! I think I used 7.5 oz of dry plaster so about 15 oz of mixed plaster, I know that this isn't going to be dry completely for Wednesday's crit but its hard, it's just slightly damp. I used the foam board for the walls and base of the mold and I scavenged some of the pink foam insulation for the inside parts of the mold. The cuts that I made weren't the nicest, cleanest cuts. So I used some sand paper to smooth them out some and some Sobo glue to fill in the gaps.
And boy was I wrong about the foam insulation coming out easy!! Because the foam was so think it didn't slide out of the plaster as I wanted it to, so I had to dig out the foam with my Exacto-knife and fingers. Once I had about half the block dug out and poked through to the other side it was easier to pull out the foam, but it made such a mess, there was pink foam everywhere!! Also the foam didn't make a very nice edge, so I took some sand paper to the plaster to try and smooth the walls down, and because the plaster was still damp it kinda worked better than if the plaster was fully dry because the damp plaster also kinda filled in any gaps that were created form the foam, or form accidentally hitting the sides when trying to dig out the foam. I also sanded down the corners and edges of the model so in the end I think it came out quite nice. Heavy, but quite nice.
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