Casting

This week I decided I would start casting my molds in wax as it only took a half an hour to dry.
I went down to the technicians room and asked Des to show me how the wax pot works.
First you dip your Styrofoam cup in , take a bit of wax and add a color if that's what you wanted.
They had red, yellow, orange, purple, black and green.

I decided to do my first one in white wax.
and the end product was very successful and then I did one in green which brought out all the detail.

I did a few of these and decided to make another mold of one of the claws as it worked so well the first time. I did the same as before and pushed it into clay and built a wall. I left it to dry overnight with the plastic in it and came back the next morning and popped it out and poured wax in.
I tried many colors and liked the darker ones the best as it showed the most detail.