sorry if you touched on this already, but what is your heigth?
According to Saturday's measurements, I'm 5'7" tall and 181lbs. I'm kinda doubtful about the weight though.
NEW BOOT PROTOTYPE UPDATE:
Yesterday I decided that my plain clay sculpts of the boots on top of my machine-carved soles were not going well. You can see them in the lower left corner of this pic:
Insteady I got back to work on my hodge podge frankenboots. They're made using a foam cast of the soles from my old failed molds, resin casts of the heel cup, a section of corrugated hose, and oil-based clay to hand sculpt the sections I couldn't cast. I managed to get into full tunnel vision mode, so I didn't realize I hadn't eaten anything all day (or night) until I stopped at about 3:00am. At that point, they looked like so:
This morning I sprayed the "armored" parts with some rustoleum hammered effect paint to hide any fingerprints and minor flaws. Then I turned them over and misted the soles with a bit of nonskid truck bed coating to add a bit more texture there:
These boots are optimized to fit around a size 10 shoe. I'll be taking a cheap slip-on boot of some kind, inserting it into the mold, and then casting foam around it. So for smaller sizes they'll just have more foam. For larger sizes, I'll make a rigid foam cast once the mold is done and add a bit of length in the middle. Then I'll make another mold of the larger size. The proportions will be a bit different, but they'll still look the part.
I will begin molding these tomorrow. Stay tuned...
) and I don't even have a car (that's going to be fun, riding the train...). Bad vision is one of the few things I really don't want.
