here it is preped for rubber. i've never done this before, so i'm basically going from smoothoninc's youtube tutorials, and the guys that did the halo helmet video.
couple of interesting points.
it's propped up on a gallon jug of windex. i globbed a bunch of hot glue onto the top of the bottle then set it in. in retrospect, leveling it better would have been... well... better. but what can you do?
the bottom skirt and visor are filled in with thin sheets of plastic that i got from jason ages ago. hot glued into place, then the perimeter of the skirt was hot glued to the base board it's sitting on (foamcore). that was to prevent leakage under the skirt.
my seals around the edge of the visor aren't perfect, so i may have some cleanup to do on the mold. we'll see tomorrow or so.
the holes on the sides for the earcaps i filled in with modeling clay and pushed in enough to leave a dimple. i used modeling clay here because it's easy to clean out later.
fast forward through 4 coats of silicone, applied about an hour apart...
the rebound silicone doesn't like cold... that slows its curing down a LOT. i had to bring the thing up from the basement to get decent times out of it.
i molded a couple of other things along side this (that's another thread). one of the small ones i brought upstairs to use as a gauge for when i'd be ready for the next coat. when the vortex manipulator was ready, so should be the fett.
but when i got downstairs, i found fett to still be wet enough that i could brush the rubber around.
i brought it up to the second floor and closed it in my office, which gets REALLY hot. it went from 2 hours for a coat to dry to about 45 minutes
i demolded the vortex manipulator (torchwood prop), and it came out clean. so here's hoping fett will be the same! the rubber was all from the same batch, so as far as that goes i should be ok. i'm just hoping i didn't lose any details. i'm particularly concerned with the borden connector and the corners of the visor. we shall see!
i'm hoping to be able to peel this off as an uncut glove mold. i did build in a thicker line down the right ear, should i need to cut it. but i hope it doesn't come to that. the rebound is supposed to be really stretchy, so here's hoping!
tonight is the plaster jacket, which is the last step before i demold and see what i got!