House making – Part 6 (Next house)

On to the next house. The doors are missing in the pictures but has been made, so hopefully the moulds can be made tomorrow!

House making – Part 5 (Adding roof)

I have now made a mould of the roof piece. When making the roof mould I by accident placed the master on a uneven surface which gives me problems when making the cast, the resin tends to gather in one of the corners. The roof piece that comes out of that is harder to fit together with the house. It is easy to place the mould so it is plain when casting, but still it is quite irretating.

The following pictures are showing the house with added details, ready to get painted.

…and here after the primer:

House making – Part 4 (Assembling)

I made a resin cast of all wall pieces today so that I could assemble my first house (still miss the roof). I made it harder to assemble by pouring too much resin in some of the moulds, this forced me to carve and sand to make it fit. The wall pieces had some air bobbles which my test casts didn’t have… I guess they came as the resin sets really fast, I have only 2 minutes before it harden and this make me pour the resin too fast.

I will soon make a mould on the roof piece but still need to fix some details first.

And this is the two-store barn in 1/1:

House making – (mini update)

Just a quick and dirty paint test and used lots of pigments. I think it looks promising, will put more effort into paint the final houses.

House making – Part 3 (Resin test)

Yesterday I made two test with Jesmonite, the second cast was better than the first one, but none was good enough. Jesmonite was too thick to allow it to fill the mould which gave lots of air holes.

Today I was down in my local hobby shop buying some resin and made a new test – which is much better. I can see now that by sealing my master before making moulds will probably be better, and if I at the same time improve my sculpting skills it will all be a hit. :-)

Next I will try to paint this little wall section, most because I can’t resist. Then I will make some new moulds with sealed surfaces and if no new problems have occurred I will resume my work with sculpting new wall pieces at the same time that I cast the ones already made.

House making – Part 2 (Mould and Jesmonite test)

Making the first moulds. Since this pictures was taken I tried the moulds using Jesmonite, an acrylic product that is similar to plaster in many ways. The first test I did the Jesmonite was too thick to pour down into the moulds. I have made a new mix now and have to wait until tomorrow for the result of this casting.