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well i had a bit of a creative block today. i didnt realy know what to do. it was like i had hit a brick wall. but all this was soon over come by having a chat with Matt. so after the 'chat', i started doing some more experiments. i deicovered that we had another version of the melt down plastic/rubber which was yellow and a lot firmer. after making another mould, i took another casting which actually worked a lot better than the red ones because it was a lot firmer and the design was more defined as a result. because it was yellow, i thought that it would be easier to change the colour of so that was my next mision.
after working like a mad scientist mixing different chemicals, i managed to do it (but it wasnt easy).

my first attempt was pretty bad. i decided to add some black ink to the mixture after it had been melted but this didnt work at all. the ink just mage the plastic go all lumpy and stringy which would not pour into the mould at all.

This is the ink disaster !!!

however, i finaly managed to do it and the secret ingredient was....................................................well its a secret (acrylic paint)  :0P

and here is the final result and it looks FAB!!!

what i now need to do is come up with another design. a design with plenty of curvs to complement this form.

reflection

well i vacume formed my woodern proform today to get plenty of it so i could possibly use the plastic version as a building material for a model.

they worked great and wuold look good on a model but they are not as flexible as i wanted them to be because they cant be bent into curves.
so kate showed me a new material wich i dont remember the name to :( but it is a rubber like plastic that comes in slabs. you just heat it up in the microwave to make it melt and then pour it into your mould.
so i did another vacume form to use as a mould. but when i poured the hot liquid into it, it just collapsed and went out of shape because the heat was too much.



the mould that didnt last very long



my solution was to press the wooden preforn into some clay and then use that as my mould. and it worked!!!

it looks fantastic and its realy flexible too (maybe abit too flexible). the only thing is that it only comes in red (so iv been told)

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reflection

well a bit of a boring day today. didnt realy get much done apart from cutting and glueing. did a bit of drawing but that was about it realy. there was one creative thing that i managed to complete today which was to make a wooden preform to represent a tyre wall.

i made this by cutting a wooden dowling in half to get two long semicircles and then sliced them up into thin pieces. i then used some PVA glue to stick them down to a wooden board. this piece looks fantastic and is very visually pleasing. i can imagine it as being a wooden cladding for either inside or outside of a building. i might use this to vacume form to make duplicate coppies out of plastic.