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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: brennan08512 on Thu, 05 January 2017, 14:43:12
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Here's my first attempt at trying to make a custom keycap. I study neuroscience so I figured I'd try to make a brain! Well.. it kind of looks like a brain.
This is the original mold.
(http://i.imgur.com/o5wTZaw.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/RABeDZK.jpg)
Here are the two casting attempts before the mold stem broke off. There's definitely some bubbles and the mold wasn't that great either.
(http://i.imgur.com/TLeyes4.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/VEpoVzo.jpg)
I can barely print my name legibly let alone sculpt, so I don't think it was too terrible. I have a few other ideas in mind and I hope to keep improving.
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Hello! A newbie in making keycaps here too :thumb:
Are you really not into scultping? cos I think that's a good looking brain. I like the details. You might want to make the lines a little deeper and wider tho so that the mold could force itself into it.
And cheers to bubbles! ;D it's my worst enemy right now either.
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Hello! A newbie in making keycaps here too :thumb:
Are you really not into scultping? cos I think that's a good looking brain. I like the details. You might want to make the lines a little deeper and wider tho so that the mold could force itself into it.
And cheers to bubbles! ;D it's my worst enemy right now either.
Thanks! I do want to redo it with deeper lines and try to find a way to have a stable stem that looks like a spinal cord coming down.
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Did some sculpts. Slowly getting a little better. These are pretty high in profile but just something I was messing around with.
(http://i.imgur.com/XE2tYet.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/KlfEXbD.jpg)