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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: Phosphero on Sun, 29 July 2018, 18:13:45
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Hi folks! I've been lurking here for a bit, mostly talking to people on the mech keys discord as Lucien#8878.
I recently decided to try my hand at making sculpted keycaps, and figured this was as good a time as any to show people the progress that I've made.
Chronology is roughly left to right, top to bottom
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Columns 1 & 2 were the first sculpts I made, on top of normal keycaps.
3a is the first cast I tried to make of a weird rodent thing
3b is the successful version
4a & 4b were my first try at making a double shot. Up to this point, I hadn't managed to make a successful cast of the teeth
5a was my attempt at making a sort of mimic. After casting 5b and 6a, I realized that the detail I made on it simply didn't translate well to resin. The mold captures it perfectly, but it just doesn't look as good as in clay.
6b was my first blank - tried as a double shot.
7a and 7b are my latest sculpt, which I made at 1 in the morning after watching a cute baby octopus gif on reddit. They were made on TheGlyph's L2K centering platform, which I'm pretty happy with for the price ($8).
8a and 8b are my first try at topre blanks. They fit perfectly, even a little bit tighter than the original, so I'm pretty satisfied with how they turned out
9a, 9b, and 10a were made today, my first try at marbling using a light purple and fluorescent green. I don't have a blacklight to see how they glow, but that should be fixed soon.
I'm happy enough with the octopus that I think I'll work on making some good colorways for it and do my first small sale with it.
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I've been posting pictures of my progress pretty frequently on my instagram (https://www.instagram.com/key_kata/) and the casting channel on discord.
Forum posts by people such as Binge, Nightcaps, and Booper have been pretty instrumental in me getting as far as I have, so I'd like to sincerely thank them for making such useful information available to everyone.