I allow myself to get ahead of myself so that I don't waste time thinking and have more time fixing mistakes I have made. Bad strategy, maybe, but I end up learning a lot so I don't think I will change the way I am doing anything, as of yet.
So remember what I said about rotomolding? Yeah scratch that, I learned the plastic I used is viscous while on its way to setting, but once the reaction happens it refuses to move. That is when I needed it to move the most, so the rotomolding thing didn't work, BUT that was the only thing that changed. I am still making plastic faces, and I have quite a few of them as of today.
This is the process I went through to get to the faces:
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| Original carved heads in balsa wood |
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| Paper glued in between allowed the halves to split |
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| The heads are numbered and split. |
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| They are placed on the base of the vacuum former. |
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| It was successful! Thank you Tech John Medley! |
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| This is the mold, a vacuum formed sheet of plastic, now I can make multiples of one |
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