I had a play around with the brass etch today and thought I’d post a quick update. I ended up putting two of the smallest size icons on the sides of the bottom pelvis armour banding and think it’s turned out quite nicely. I also hit it with a final coating of Mr Surfacer to prep it for moulding (along with the pelvis). I guess I’ll make the moulds up tomorrow.
Just for kicks I also hit the brass etch sheet with a coat of Mr Surfacer to bring it all up to a uniform colour:
Looking at it like this the depth of etch seems just fine. The only reason deeper etch is necessary is to make it easier to cut the individual icons from the sheet. I really like the icon with the laurels around it – for reference the largest one is 20mm diameter. I’ll do one with an additional circular border around it to use as a main icon somewhere on the torso. Although 20mm diameter is far too big – the 14mm ones produce adequately sized details that will reproduce in resin nicely enough.
I’ve played around a little more with my clay torso mockup but I’m going to blame my inability to produce something really worthwhile on the fact that the hot weather makes the clay too soft to work with, rather then the fact that I just suck at sculpting like that :rolleyes:
My friend Xeones on the Resin Addict forum made some great suggestions and did a cool torso sketch based on my clay mockup. While it’s not exactly the style I’m planning, he has introduced some great visual ideas and so I believe I now have a solid enough plan of what I’m doing to start work on the actual torso model. Hopefully I’ll have some reportable progress (i.e. pics) during the week đŸ˜‰
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