I needed to make plenty of replacement hands for my Colonel puppet as the wire armature inside the hands will inevitably eventually snap after repeated use. To make these, I first sculpted the hands in Sculpey oven-bake clay and, once baked, put them onto a layer of Sculptex. I then used a palette sculpting tool to build a further layer of sculptex around the perimeter of the hands, burying them up to the halfway point. I created keys in the clay to help the two halves of the mould to fit together. I then built a toy brick wall around the clay bed and sculpt and poured plaster into them. Once set, I removed the brick walls and sculptex, flipped the plaster mould around, rebuild the wall, covered the mould in vaseline so that it could be separated easily and poured in more plaster to create the joining half. I was then able to place wire into the moulds and pour in the silicone before clamping them. Once cured the hands could be released and excess silicone trimmed off with fine scissors around the seam. I used 'Ecoflex 00-35 Platinum Cure Silicone', which is soft and flexible and cures quickly, mixed with Flesh coloured Silicone pigment. Finally, I brushed some talcum powder onto the hands to remove some of the tackiness from the silicone.
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I made the decanters by sawing and filing the tops and bottoms of two plastic ear rings. The furnature is made from PVC foam board, which I primed and painted.
To make the spokes of the wheels, I used dressmakers pins pushed through plastic rings which I had cut from some pot lids.
I used waxed thread to make the chair following instructions on a very useful blog:
https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/dollhouse-miniature-furniture-tutorials-1-3958372/1-inch-scale-wicker-chair-tutorial-how-to-4956955739. I've begun making set pieces for a film which I am making about a retired Colonel. The wheels of the Land Rover are K'nex which I have modified with 'O' rings. The lights are mini LED keychain torches.
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