services include...
SCULPTING AND MODEL-MAKING
- Sculpting in clay or any oil based clays such as plastaline, working from drawings, photos or small maquette.
-Scaling up maquettes
- Model-making and general fabrication i.e props, and prototype models.
- Working with 3D printed models
MOULD MAKING
- Multi piece silicon skin, block and case moulds
- Fibreglass moulds
- Silicon and/or fibreglass moulds for much larger pieces
- Plaster waste moulds
CASTING
- Cold cast metal casting (metal powders in resin) including bronze, brass, copper aluminium and Iron.
- Stone casting (stone powders in resin) including marble, slate, cement, portland, sand and bath stone.
- Polyester and polyurethane resin casting including translucent and opaque colours and effects.
- Jesmonite casting including stone and metal fillers and coloured pigments
- Plaster casting
- Wax casting including wax casting for Foundry bronze
- Silicon casting creating skin effects
- Polyurethane foam casting hard and soft.
LIFE CASTING
Taking moulds directly from the human body in Alginate (a skin safe moulding compound) and creating castings in various finishes such as plaster, coloured resins and cold cast metals such as bronze. Various mounting options are available.
- 3D castings and impressions of babies hands and feet
- Family and couple hand clasps
- Commission a specific life casting - there is no end to the possibilities, just come to me with your idea.
FINISHING
- Hair insertion into wax, silicon or fibreglass resin from human, synthetic and animal hair.
- Painting finishes on a wide variety of surfaces such as resin, silicon, wax and jesmonite.
- Patination techniques – chemically treating cold cast metals such as bronze to offer a range of surface finishes such as antiqued bronze and verdegris. Waxes and translucent lacquers can also be applied to offer a wider range of finishes.
Please vist my patination page to see whats on offer