Recent content by DanBakerOnline

To reply specifically to this thread for future reference, I'd like to point out the differences between 65D and 321. Smoothcast 321 has an off-white color, a 70D durometer rating, a low viscosity (80 cps), a 7-9 minute pot life, and a 30 minute demold time. Smoothcast 65D has an amber color...

010, You can take a resin like Smoothcast 45D or 65D, which have a gel profile and are good for rotocasting. Pout a bit into your mold and rotate to coat all sides (or brush it in) and let it cure. Then you can back it up with the foam of your choice. Remember to pour your foam in stages, so...

Heat DOES help resin cure faster. Just remember to be safe. Here's a pretty simple hotbox design using a heater: http://www.smooth-on.com/Moldmaking-Related-Topics/c11/p66/How-to-Build-a-Hot-Box/pages.html Also, if you're storing your materials out in the cold garage, make SURE to let them warm...

Okay, guys, so what? We can't have an official group, with an official logo, and official recognition. But is Microsoft gonna enforce a C&D on every single one of us? No. How many members of this group are going to actually stop making their own armor, just because the 405th is downed...

I'm an active member of the R2 Builders Club, and I'll be done with my R2-D2 around the end of July- Just in time for The Clone Wars release and Dragon*Con. I also draw/digital paint a lot. Right now I'm doing a Halo comic based on the original plot line, since Uprising was such a...

Okay guys, I'm gonna show you how it's done. Since I have apparently not posted enough to make a thread anywhere but the noob section (even though I've been around here for over a year), I'll drop this bomb here. As you know, I'm more a fan of classically produced comics, not so much on the...

No, the second one DOESN'T give the screenshot a comic book look and feel. It looks like a Photoshop filter. In fact, it looks like the exact same filter that every single other screengrab-based comic uses, which means this comic will be neither innovative nor unique. It'll just blend into the...

Dude, nobody knows what the heck the friggin key of "O" is. I'm not sure Bendis even knows. I suspect that that may be the reason for the LOOOONG delay- the writer is trying to figure out what the heck he's talking about AND how to wrap up a 4-issue series that he's already wasted half the...

Hey there. All looks good, except one thing... the lower legs. Remember, a real human is about 8 heads tall, and a stylized comic hero/heroine is about 10 heads tall. The crotch (being the bottom of the torso) is at the bottom of the fifth head down, meaning the legs are fully half the body's...

The other guy that made an Elite suit (wasn't it at ComicCon a few years back?) used overstuffed areas on the thighs to simulate the knee being out farther than it was. All the while, he could stand like a human. And by engineering the head the way he did, his head was actually in the Elite's...

Thanks, guys. I did a bit more cleanup on the helmet, but haven't had time to take pics yet (thanks to Halo 3). I've also been simultaneously working on the chest/back plate. I'll put all my new pics up this weekend when I get a chance to sit down. I wouldn't have normally agreed to go for a...

Great advice. I didn't know that. I always sealed my small Sculpey stuff with urethane before vacforming, because someone a long time ago told me to. Never really knew why.

It'll collapse UNLESS you use polymer clay, like Sculpey, that you can bake in your home oven. Polymer clay never dries until it's baked, and it can be smoothed out quite well. Most sculptors of toys and action figures either use Super Sculpey exclusively, or a combination of Super Sculpey and...

Excellent! Was it a custom sculpt? I love it.

Haha, thanks Ares. I work at a sign shop, so I did that lettering in vinyl on the back window of my truck. I cropped that pic on purpose to see how long it would take someone to notice. Nice job!