Well, with the molds anyway. First cast is up in Ylisande's WIP thread, but there are still many to come....

I haven't blogged here lately, because I have been photo-journaling the process of making molds for Ylisande in the WIP Dollmaking subforum

*twigling wanders off to dance to this song as it plays on the radio*

but now I am nearly finished, and there will be at least one more picture update (part 5), and maybe even a part 6. I've poured the four core-molds for the legs, and this can be a messy and frustrating business until I remember how to do it properly. Tomorrow...

Much excitement as I demolded those first pieces today that have two-part molds. I've just mixed up a batch of resin and poured into the new molds. The Shore A 40 silicone is a little firmer, but I think I really like working with it. Nothing wrong with the softer stuff, but it feels very solid.

The awesome thing about transparent silicone is that you can see the mold filling up and know when to cut off the stream of resin. Previously I would just pour (being in a hurry before the...

Yes, that's right — I have finally gotten to the moldmaking stage. Let me babble on and tomorrow when I have loads of free time (and hopefully some energy) I will organise the pictures I have been taking and post them as well.

[quite possibly tl;dr]

The first day was spent entirely in preparing the first ten parts for molding. This means, cutting the baseboards to size, cutting and cleaning the PVC pipe that is to become mother molds, drilling and claying up the parts...

Okay, so at this point most of Ylisande's small parts are ready to go, and probably some big ones too.

There are some small issues with the upper and lower arms and legs, and long-story-short, it is because when I cut up, shortened and adjusted those parts I re-attached them with cyanoacrylate, aka. super glue. And every time we would spray, the paint reacted with the super glue and created a different texture. Then we'd sand it off and spray again and the same thing would happen....