Post by PitYak Studios on Apr 10, 2006 12:21:59 GMT 12
Just so you don't have to wade through 8 pages to see the genesis of the toxic waste dump.
Below are the components;
On the left is one of my own cast plaster craters (cunningly the exact size of a CD). I've Dremelled out the centre to give a bit more depth. Next to that is something out the spares box to use as a warning sign (not sure, I think it was part of a cassette deck or something), a plastic skeleton, some sections of plastic oil drums, and a length of hand made barbed wire.
The first WIP shot;
The dump itself has been assembled; the sign and wire glued in place, and the bottom of the pit coated in plasticine in which the drums were embedded. To create the texture on the bottom of the dump I coated it in pva, then when this almost dry, driblled superglue over the top. This gives a nice slecky bubbly effect as the two glues react together, and sets rock hard. Whole lot was then primed black, and also shown is the painted-up skelly.
This next shot should have been the final shot;
The bottom of the waste was painted in shades of toxic-looking green, then I filled the crater with Norski Klear Kast diamond embedding resin. This is a polyester resin that I had been planning on trying out for a while. It sets to a beautiful clear, hard finish, but unfortunately as doing so it lifted / shrank away from the edge of the crater. This next shot shows the problem a bit better;
I considered some different methods of curing this problem, and finally settled on this plan:- seal the surrounding area with klear/future, then seal again with dullcoat, then add another fine layer of resin. This worked fairly well, but the resin still peeled away in a few areas. Not to be detterred, I reverted to the method I normally use for doing this sort of thing, and painted several thick coats of clear nail varnish over the whole lot.
So finally;
Less than ideal, but at least now the gaps aren't obvious, and the liquid looks suitable nasty. Also on the plus side, the resin was so clear that from certain angles it wasn't obvious that barrels and skeleton were actually partially submerged, whereas it certainly is now. On the down side, the additional fix-it-up stages have meant the liquid level is a lot higher than planned, and the barrels are now more submerged than I wanted.
More pics of the project are shown here
Below are the components;
On the left is one of my own cast plaster craters (cunningly the exact size of a CD). I've Dremelled out the centre to give a bit more depth. Next to that is something out the spares box to use as a warning sign (not sure, I think it was part of a cassette deck or something), a plastic skeleton, some sections of plastic oil drums, and a length of hand made barbed wire.
The first WIP shot;
The dump itself has been assembled; the sign and wire glued in place, and the bottom of the pit coated in plasticine in which the drums were embedded. To create the texture on the bottom of the dump I coated it in pva, then when this almost dry, driblled superglue over the top. This gives a nice slecky bubbly effect as the two glues react together, and sets rock hard. Whole lot was then primed black, and also shown is the painted-up skelly.
This next shot should have been the final shot;
The bottom of the waste was painted in shades of toxic-looking green, then I filled the crater with Norski Klear Kast diamond embedding resin. This is a polyester resin that I had been planning on trying out for a while. It sets to a beautiful clear, hard finish, but unfortunately as doing so it lifted / shrank away from the edge of the crater. This next shot shows the problem a bit better;
I considered some different methods of curing this problem, and finally settled on this plan:- seal the surrounding area with klear/future, then seal again with dullcoat, then add another fine layer of resin. This worked fairly well, but the resin still peeled away in a few areas. Not to be detterred, I reverted to the method I normally use for doing this sort of thing, and painted several thick coats of clear nail varnish over the whole lot.
So finally;
Less than ideal, but at least now the gaps aren't obvious, and the liquid looks suitable nasty. Also on the plus side, the resin was so clear that from certain angles it wasn't obvious that barrels and skeleton were actually partially submerged, whereas it certainly is now. On the down side, the additional fix-it-up stages have meant the liquid level is a lot higher than planned, and the barrels are now more submerged than I wanted.
More pics of the project are shown here
