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Hey no one!  How haven't you been?

The funny thing about blogging is that you're basically not talking to anyone, and then you're suddenly talking to everyone.  I'm still in the "not talking to anyone" stage, so no surprise that it's awful quiet around here.  Prove me wrong.  Leave me a comment.

It's been a while since Halloween, and I haven't touched any tools since then.  I needed a break from robot costumes, and it's been nice to have a little more free time.  That said, I'm starting to get the itch to work again.

Since my last foray into building, I've been researching techniques and methods for making more refined and detailed builds.  It's lead me to www.therpf.com, where I've been reading up on casting molds in silicone and resin, as well as vacuum forming and sculpting.  All of them are really related, it's tough to do a professional-level design without some amount of all of them.  If you look to your right, you'll see a blog called Volpin Props in my following links - that blog, and Harrison's precision and attention to detail, has been instrumental in my own excitement to produce higher quality items.

I'm not entirely sure what direction I'll be headed from here.  I know KILLroy will have a 2.0, but beyond that, the sky is really the limit.  I don't have any particular movie or show that I'd like to start doing replicas for, I've been enjoying the freedom that comes with designing for myself, but as my experience with these new techniques grows, I'm sure I'll try to do a little replication here and there.

As a start, I've been picking up materials to make a 1:1 mannequin copy of myself, to be more able to do active work on costumes while I'm not wearing them.  I found a pretty good tutorial on how to create your own here, and decided that I'd give it a shot.

I haven't had time to work on it beyond shopping, but now that I'm actually doing some brainstorming, I'll be sure to check back in once things start to progress again.  I'm urging Curtis to start making a mannequin for himself, as well, since it's going to be beneficial for us both.

The next step for us is probably to clean up the basement, since it's basically still destroyed from our last minute stress work on our robots, but once we get some sort of organization in place, we're off to the races.  Stay tuned!


PS - I've also been writing for a Magic: the Gathering site called ChannelFireball.com.  I wrote a magic-oriented description of project day for them, which you can find here.  Give it a look!