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Hello there friends, exellent and truly exiting times for a new post!! I just did yesterday the last bronze smelting with three casts, the woman figure, the cape and the complements (gogles, belt, supplies bags and stabilizers). I let the casts cool down for a day and today was time to open them! They all went surprisingly well as the bronze flow very well in all the holes and parts and there were no cast brakes or cracks.

As always, I had to do all this stuff with wax and add in it the entryes of bronze and exits of air, there were some tricky isues specially with the smallest parts of the sculptures, fingers, complements and sculpture tips with no air exits.

                   

                  

 Notice in this two pictures how I added some wax tubes to allow the bronze to flow from the tip of the fingers and the boots to aboid air bags, all this has to be cutted when is turned to bronze.

 When this is done the wax sculpture goes to the cast of 50% sand and 50% plaster, some fiberglass metal wire and wire frame is added for more consistency, it took a full single day to get ready the casts.

  First is the cape cast and second the woman cast, they are both pretty big!! :)

These pics are after breaking the casts, at this point all the entries and exits have to be cutted and the sculpture cleaned and polished. 

I can't wait to start tomorrow morning to polish the sculputures! 

I'm also doing some sketches to get ready some clothes for the stop motion animation so these are very busy and exiting times, till my next post! Peace!!!