V.4

Awesome, my friend Adrià found a Tiger Salamander in the forest, surprisingly in quite good shape for being dead! Thank you very much Adrià!

It almost look that is it alive! I managed to put it in a position that it looks pretty realistic. The skin was tearing down very fast, I also put a plastic in its mouth to maintain it open. Alltoghether was covered with plastic film to keep it in a moist enviroment and putted into the freezer (so far).


                

V.3

Well... a couple of weeks without posting so here we go with a long post!

Ok so first a few shots of the Hybrid before trying the resing cast. I'm very happy abaut this small piece, it came from nowhere to stay strong in my beasts book. I've used parts from a scorpion, spider and a butterfly, scary!

      

When it was resin time and after a couple of test with a dragonfly and a mouse things were looking pretty good. However i put to much catalyst in the resin and it start to crack and turn a bit yellow, not so bad but not exacly the desired effect. 

The resin blocks have to be sanded and polished to make them translucid, it took a lot of time.

Besides this Hybrid adventure i was starting to make the legs of an animation puppets, it turned that the "plastilina" was too soft so I'm doing it now with some kinf of hard foam, anyway a don't even think this will work as this have to be casted to do with silicon.

 Time will tell, at least this is helping me to start to think abaut the shape of the legs. Peace!