07-30-2005, 07:35 PM
Krazedkilla: The way we molded this mask (from the INSIDE as opposed to the outside surface) will make first-gen replicas of this mask entirely possible.
Vacuforming requires that a stone positive, or "buck" be made from a mold. This buck is then used on a vacuform table to pull the heated plastic sheet over. This plastic sheet forms to the buck and creates the masks that we all love. Since my blank is uncut, and remains uncut, we could make a mold of the INSIDE of the blank to make an exact copy of the stone buck that was used to originally vacuform this blank. This keeps the generation intact, and other than the few small changes in the buck to assure that the plastic forms well, these things will look exactly like mine in every way.
If we were to mold the OUTSIDE of the blank, we\'d go down a generation, and the quality would be lesser, because then the surface of the blank would become the surface of the stone buck, and when plastic is formed over that, there will be some detail loss. THEN we\'d have GOH-gen masks.
Ryan Bean
Vacuforming requires that a stone positive, or "buck" be made from a mold. This buck is then used on a vacuform table to pull the heated plastic sheet over. This plastic sheet forms to the buck and creates the masks that we all love. Since my blank is uncut, and remains uncut, we could make a mold of the INSIDE of the blank to make an exact copy of the stone buck that was used to originally vacuform this blank. This keeps the generation intact, and other than the few small changes in the buck to assure that the plastic forms well, these things will look exactly like mine in every way.
If we were to mold the OUTSIDE of the blank, we\'d go down a generation, and the quality would be lesser, because then the surface of the blank would become the surface of the stone buck, and when plastic is formed over that, there will be some detail loss. THEN we\'d have GOH-gen masks.
Ryan Bean