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I broke it when I was 14. Got hit by a car. Compound fracture and dislocation.
I kept this cast for sentimental reasons (just the front of it). I finally threw it away two weeks ago. Probably a mistake.
This is a completely natural art work.
Plaster of Paris on Pine, scratched into painted with walnut indian ink and finished with a layer of cold beeswax mix.
The painting symbolises many people/women all joined together with a common thread contained within a bowl/earh/womb
Photo taken in "Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal-Unterbarmen. I emphasized the interesting structures, the scratches, scrapes, and scars of the plaster models.
Created by Jason Schneider of Jason Schneider Furniture.
Blogged: www.allthingspaper.net/2014/03/corrugated-cardboard-furni...
AFAIK, this is an authentic 'Project Aizu' resin kit - bought it from another modeler's collection in the original box.
The kit came in good quality, just the torso/legs intersection needed some surgery - the skirt's lower rim had taken light damage and needed repair due to the thin and brittle material in this area.
Anyway, this is a resin kit that I'd recommend to beginners since it is easy to assemble and painting is not a big challenge, too - except for the fact that you need to create an even skin finish, but that's nothing unusual.
While the OOB figure is cute I did some personal changes. The original kit/Rei wears mittens(!), which looks pretty goofy and does not make much sense with this outfit, at least at first glance. After some research I found out why: It is actually a figure based on an X-mas illustration (there's also an Asuka in this style), which has also spawned some PVC figures. Check this for reference:
Rei, Asuka and Pen Pen in Xmas mood and outfits.
Anyway, I did not like the mittens' blunt look. To make the figure look a bit more delicate and elegant, and also in order to emphasize the slick "wet style" look of the short, shiny dress, I decided to "transplant" hands!
The necessary replacement parts were casted with resin by myself. The respective latex molds were taken from hands of an authentic 1:6 scale Belldandy vinyl kit (which still waits for assembly...). The new parts were casted with clear resin, the process was a bit messy - but a good training and it was successful.
For transplantation I had to use some tricks, though: Fitting the hands was not as easy as it might sound, and unfortunately the positions/poses of the recast hands did not exactly correspond to the sitting position of the figure - I tried my best. In the end this rather small modification makes the figure IMHO look much more delicate, "adult" and elegant?
In order to present the figure (and due the fact that the new hands do not allow that it rests flat on the floor...) I also had to build a pillow-like base from scratch.
The base was made from a 6x6" piece of wood onto which a cushion of plaster was scultpted. The fresh and still formable wet plaster was immediately covered with a sheet of black, high-gloss vinyl and the figure gently pressed into it. This made it look like a "real" shiny and seamless cushion - an appropriate display. ;)
Out of a "back-slab" and into a full cast. Unfortunately for graffiti (or grrr-feety!) artists, there is a plastic covering that is felt-tip resistant. I haven't yet managed a good night's sleep due to the change of cast. Sadly the swelling hasn't come down at all. I should be able to put the foot on the floor just to provide a bit of stability instead of hopping everywhere.
Portrait of Jack Mundey.
Created by artist Alexandre Farto. A large portrait of Sydney environmental activist, Jack Mundey, on the stairs in The Rocks.
The portrait appears to be created by gouging out the plaster / render to reveal the brickwork underneath.
If you look carefully, you can see the stairs running diagonally above the eyes, with the forehead on the wall behind.
Dea Vivente Work In Progress:
Here are some of my plaster molds for casting porcelain slip.
More information about my dolls at: deavivente.com
Plaster cast of colonnette from one of the lateral portals of the West facade at Saint-Denis; about 1137-40
Buying plasters for my heels, which had the skin rubbed off them by boots that I bought from the same shop, a week earlier
another photo taken at Memorial Church, Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts, completed in 1932 and designed by architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott; this is a detail of a pair of ornate columns; notice the intricacies of the capitals with the heads of people and animals incorporated into the design