The Frothers' Charity Thingy 2012

It's time for the (semi) annual Frothers' Charity Thingy :)
This year's figure will be 'Sasha' based on the superb concept art by Des Hanley
and to be sculpted by Tre Manor (Red Box Games) and Mike Owen (Artizan Designs) who's doing 'Dave the decapitated Orc' :)

Full details of the project are HERE and also on FACEBOOK

Tim from Grey Matter....

Cutting moulds is always fun. Basically I work on the fact that I could only get one chance to get it right, depending on the sculpting medium.
Sometimes the master sculpt will break when cutting it out of the silicone, if that happens I can't afford to do any bad cuts. If I break the master and have a useless mould then all would be very embarrassing.
I also don't like to scar the master with a scalpel blade, although sometimes it happens.[/quote]

Another Charity Thingy update...

Tim at Grey Matter Figures now has the 3 'greens' for mastering in resin.....












From L-R Andrew's Sabrina, Seb's Kelly and Kev's Jill












In this photo, the masters have been set up for moulding in silicone.
Since then they have been vacuumed in silicon rubber.
Due to the cool weather they will not be able to be "cut" until tomorrow, a day later than normal.

Next process will be Mark and Rich casting a few resins for painting.
After that the transitional resins, will involve a lot of swearing as it is a bitch to do and can only do one cast a day