Author Archives: Stuart

Fibreglassing done.  Did I green trim it…ummmm.  Nope. Fool that I am, I missed my green trim window so I let the fellas set up overnight, and took a hacksaw to the edges.  It took about twenty minutes with a … Continue reading →

Frankenstein’s Creature – Take 2 A few years back, I had a lot of fun making a Frankenstein’s Creature for Jai Sepple, who was starring as the tortured soul in a stage production (check out my old blog series on … Continue reading →

Fibreglassing video part 3 is up and running at last! My apologies for the loooong delay between parts 2 and 3.  It has been a busy year – as you may know I still work as a makeup effects bod, … Continue reading →

Silicone jacket moulds a go-go! Doing silicone jacket moulds (sometimes called Matrix moulds, although that makes them sound like they are made up of binary code and can transform into any shape by thoughts) kind of fell out of favour … Continue reading →

It stinks, it’s toxic, it uses a corrosive catalyst and it isn’t nice to use, but fibreglass is a workshop staple. I have spent a fair bit of time behind a respirator patting down millions of pieces of fibreglass but … Continue reading →

Following on from the last post, I had just replaced the new face on the head cast – so now we have a corrected face on there.  There is still a massive line all the way around and that needs … Continue reading →

Fitting a new plaster face is easier than it sounds.  Just needs a bit of patience. I won’t bother you with details of the new life cast itself – it was just a cast of the face done with alginate, … Continue reading →

I don’t usually screw up a life cast, but when it does happen, it’s only fair to share. I want to do a series of posts on a project I am doing based on a vampire design a good friend … Continue reading →