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Olivier Duhamel
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25-Feb-2009
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Started On : 31-May-2009 at 02:27:16 AM, #Views : 5999
Topic Subject : Full wrap around torso casting |
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Has anyone ever attempted a full wrap around torso casting?
I have a customer wanting one and here is how I intend to go about it.
With the help of a couple of assistants we fully cover the casting area of alginate as usual but with a thicker than usual vertical strip where I will later be cutting the mold open, most likely on one side of the torso.
Before the alginate fully sets, I’ll push a few flat head nails head first into the alginate making sure they do not go through. These nails will eventually be set in both alginate and plaster bandages and hopefully prevent the alginate skin to fall off the plaster at a later stage.
Encase everything in plaster bandages as usual. Let it set.
Make a vertical zig zag cut along one side, where the alginate skin is thicker. Cutting the plaster bandages with strong scissors first and the alginate with a butter knife (sharp enough to cut soft alginate but bland enough not to bleed my customer…)
Gently pry open the mould to free the model. Opening it just enough to allow it to glide down her body until she can walk out of it… Probably the riskier part of the process… We do not want the alginate skin to rip…
Use some alginate bonder to somehow shut the cut together again and close it with plaster bandages…
Reinforce the whole structure with some more plaster.
Finally cast plaster in it…somehow…
Do you think this could work?
Many thanks,
Olivier
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