Yah, I wasted too much silcone on this. Now I have to buy more. That's the hardest part for me is figuring out how much I need and to get the portions right.

Ok. I got the upper part of the mold made and casted my pieces. To make the upper mold, I removed the locking marbles and covered the entire surface with a lite coat of Vaseline. I mixed up the silicone and poured it in. I just barely lucked out because the torso was thickest piece to cast. The silicone barely covered it.




The first time thru I didn't mix A&B casting plastic in enough of the correct proportion so half the part came out a little mushie.

I re-casted them again. This time, I made sure A&B were well mixed together before I poured into the upper mold. Then I poured it into the bottom mold and waited a minute for the plastic to start set. Then I put both pieces together and locked them with the marble holes I made originally.

After waiting about a half hour, I opened the mold. As you can see the pieces are stuck together with extra plastic. I used strong scissors to cut the pieces the apart and sanded them with my dremel.



Here are the new casted pieces next to their original.



Now I've got to prime the pieces white. After than I will start removing the armor from the casted plastic with my dremel. The primed white will make it easier to see what I am cutting.

I don't know how well the balloons hold paint. I'm sure it differs by brand and label. Best way to know is to try it. I was actually planning on using custom decals for the patches instead of paint.

Now that is really kick ass! I came across this helicopter at Target a few days ago in the clearance section. I can definately see the huge improvements you made to it. What did you do with the crappy figure that comes with the ship?

Great pictures Chewie. I love how you do the lighting. I'm also equally impressed that you used a Lucas daughter head for a custom. That sounds like one expensive custom you did there. I wish regular stores sold those. Then I would have some fodder when they go on clearance.

Yup. That is Smooth Sil 920 and those are the twins. I have a few people that want casts of those so I have my cast and one from Glassman in there. We'll see how this goes.

The microman is cold. He needs his armor.

I've been working on the pants tonight. I've been trying to hide the leg joints better and make it look more like a one piece outfit. This has been difficult to do. I cut the end of a balloon and fit it over the leg. Glue it at the bottom of the calf. Then cut the balloon so the leg joint fits back in its socket. Finally, stretching the balloon over the joint and onto the torso (doing a little folding and cutting with nail clippers and pliers as we go) It's a pain in the butt to do. It turned out not exactly the way I wanted it but it have to do for this project.

I also cut out the side of the suit for larger arm holes.