Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Progress-To-Date

The project is progressing well. We have the armature welded up and wired up. We used alginate to make an impression of the bough of the tree and then made a plaster mold of this impression. The foam base system seems to work well. Pouring the foam into the plaster mold was a messy and 'explosive' experience! The resin I had was too old and didn't set...so we have a mass a really sticky and stinky leaves. Farrell got new resin and will collect more leaves (poor tree)! I'm going to start building up the body of the tree (with fiberglass, etc. )

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