It worked!!!!

THANK YOU to GJ Berg for the advice - it worked - I could just HUG you right now!!! :o)

Snow, Secrets, and New beginnings (and an ending)

Ok, today I'm trying out HTML style paragraphs, lets see if I can nail this thing! (thank you for the comments :o)

Today it snowed!! The heaviest snowfall the UK has seen for 18 years so we're told, I think they mean in the whole country in just in one day, it's deep, but not too horrible (here, anyway!). Just enough to play in, I got some great pics at work (forgot to bring my SD card home though, doh! They'll have to wait). Here's a pic of Adam - snow means RC truck!!!

I had to include this photo - it looks like "Lost in Space", its just a pic looking up into the snow though, with flash - pretty cool I thought!

So, on to New Beginnings!

After my unfortunate email embarrassment earlier this week (for non-blog subscribers - I accidentally sent a private email to the entire subscription group this week, with details of this...) I should share the details on my most recent creation. I'll be keeping this to the blog though, as I don't want to advertise it just yet.

Meet... well she has no name yet - but this is my sculpture (unfinished) of a little girl, she is a companion model to go with Jasper when he finally gets finished. I thought he was such a friendly looking guy that he needed a little pal to go with him. My plan (not sure if it will come to fruition yet though) is to create three companions for Jasper, so those who'd like one have a choice, as I know not everyone likes human sculptures.

I'm told she looks like she is fly fishing, which is quite ironic, really!

As the little girl is a bit of an awkward shape for casting, she will be cast in two halves - top and bottom. This is why the photo shows the three poor legless copies, and it should go some way to explain the unusual photo (showing a pair of legs sticking out of a piece of runner) my subscribers were accidentally sent! You will probably also notice she's got a bit of a big forehead - this is because I'm not done with her hair yet, but I want to be able to experiment without ruining the face, so will try out a few styles on the resin copies.

Now, the ending I mentioned in the title - this is to do with Frodo (the big one) - here is his mold. That's it, no more! I think I got 30 copies in all, all of them cast in different colours and materials - no unpainted resin ones! Jessica Fry cast the resin ones, I know she was closing her edition soon too, so if you want one, get in touch with Jessica asap!

The mold is very speckly - this is because the final cast was a metal one, and the residue left on the mold went rusty! Seemed like a good time to stop the edition.

And finally... another New Beginning! This is a rather dd photo showing another recent project - this is a Pickle V2 resin, but cast in the magic GROWING resin. You have to soak it for a week or so to grow fully, and as you can see it grows at different rates depending on the thickness of the part - this photo illustrates how quirky these thing look part-way through the process. I think she looks like a charicature version of Pickle.

Aha - I have just given a clue as to what Pickle V3 may turn out to be...

So, I can't tell whether the paragraphs have worked in this post until I publish it, so here goes (wish me luck!)....