Alright, well this was an almost near failure due to the mother mold breaking apart. Lesson for next time is to make it thicker (already pretty thick though) but it developed weak spots and snapped at them. Needless to say I wasn't very happy, despite the actual mold itself coming out perfectly.
So today, I was just fumbling around trying to figure how to hold it all together...a water bucket. It works perfectly and everything sits as it should. The only problem area being the back inside of the fin, but with the casting today, we made the shell shock cure everywhere but the fin, sat the entire thing vertically and finished the fin (which it's now curing). So there we have it, not letting it go to waste or giving up over a screw up.
Anyways, I've been holding out with pics, so here are a few
Heres the mold unassembled. The craptacular mother mold pieces along with it
Here's the sculpt after the excruciating demolding process
Here is the whole thing sitting in the water bucket earlier after starting the casting. Hey, it works....
So now we are just waiting for the entire thing to cure. Ill be back after we pull out the first cast. Until then, beer.
-TC