Hey fellow GeekHackers!
My friend and I finally decided to take the plunge in to crafting caps! One of us is a long time mechanical keyboard enthusiast and another is relatively new to the mechanical keyboard community and hobby. We are mainly recording this write up for ourselves and others in hopes that it will be enough to keep us motivated, on track to deliver updates and keep learning and sharing that new found knowledge. Most importantly this is meant to be a sort of archive for people who are thinking about getting in to crafting or those who may have questions on issues they're running in to or even learning from our mistakes. We hope this record of our journey will some how be useful for others and at the same time give you some inspiration in the process. We hope you'll enjoy/criticize/cry at the progress.
There are numerous tutorials/writings on sculpting, molding and casting so I'll skip the formalities but if people are interested in how I interpreted information or are curious as to what information I used, I'll be more than happy to edit and share this information at a later time.
Anyways, here was the first attempt at sculpting some blanks...
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As you can see there are noticeable bubbles in the blanks due to the fact we didn't have a pressure pot/degasser. Like others before us, we didn't want to jump in the deep end of crafting without getting our beaks wet. So we're budgeting for a set up so we can do it right but in the mean time we felt comfortable with the sculpting, molding and casting process. So with the basics down we decided to try our hand at a sculpting some designs.
Our first sculpt took us a while to come up with as there are many great designs from established and upcoming crafters. We tried to find something that was both unique but something that reflected with us as individuals and friends. We were throwing around ideas and as all friends to started to get nostalgic and both realized that growing up we both watched Dragon Ball on Saturday mornings. So we wanted to sculpt a cap as an homage to our shared favorite series.
DISCLAIMER!: We went Super Saiyan 1, 2 and 3. Hope you can handle the levels.
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We learned a lot from the SSJ cap(I'll post these mistakes at a later time!) and decided to take a few steps back and try with something a little bit more simple without varying angles of hair spikes.
We eventually decided on trying our hand at the
Daruma Doll for its ubiquity in Japan and the story behind it. Here are some photos of the process.
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This is what we have so far. We are currently seeing if we can incorporate more detail in to the cap so it's more discerning but this is the first update!
