COUNTDOWN! Six Days to Maker Faire!

Things are getting a bit hairy.  But I'm still on track to get it done.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  So here's a little over 27,000 words about the day.

My day started with laying up the final halves of the mothermold for the Mouser head and body:


Then demolding the next round of latex knee and elbow parts:


Then pouring the next set:


After a few minutes, the fiberglass mothermold parts had cured and I was ready to drill the flanges:


Once the prototypes had been removed, the molds were bolted together again and Ian set to work casting copies.  Here's the first Mouser body coming out of the mold:


Madison spent the morning assembling Purity Seals for the Grey Knight:


They were built with magnets inside so they can be moved or removed around the finished armor:


She made a lot of them:


Mallory stopped by and did the prep work on a pair of Halo spike grenades:


It was dusty work:


I got to work buffing out the small shield details for the Grey Knight:


Here's the little shoulder guy mounted and prepped for molding:


Once that was gelcoated, I started working on installing the louvered vents in the Grey Knight's back:


They came out okay:


When Ian wasn't rotocasting Mouser parts, he was molding minigun parts:






Somewhere along the way, my shipment of books came in:


Freddy worked out the mounting flanges for the calves on the Fallout armor:


Just for gits and shiggles, I went ahead and 3D printed an Eldar plasma grenade from Warhammer 40K:

Which looks a bit...  odd.

Fairly late in the evening, Sierra noticed that a moth had landed in the next layer of freshly poured latex:


Despite knowing it was a lost cause, I tried to pick him out and clean the goo off of him:

Sadly, he didn't make it.  So it goes.

To finish off the evening, I decided that Sierra's hand sculpt needed one more major modification.  With power tools.  She may not have been happy about it:


But the end result will be a lot better:


While I was screwing that up, Sean and Ian got a good start on trimming the Mouser head castings:


I'm thinking I may want to cast a new copy of the Grey Knight helmet so I can do a slightly better paintjob:

Because I need another thing to do right now.

So madness continues:


Stay tuned...