Im a Finance major...but am required to take some art classes. Im in a sculpture class and our current project was aluminum casting. You make a foam figure, burry it in sand, then pour molten alumn on it. The foam burns away and is replaced with alumn 1 to 1. Of course a THR member would (me) would think of this!
I used a handful of my normally thrown out CCI Alumn shells to make part of this. Obviously i used more alumn from else where but there are a couple hundred shells in this melted!
A glock has a lot more curves than i thought it did! Took awhile to sand out the glock from a foam block.
Its not the most accurately carved but i did my best.
This is the end result after the casting, its unpolished and still dirty.
I will post new pictures when its done and polished.
Update 5/5/11
Spent most of today's class drilling but started polishing. Still pretty cool. Was thinking of mounting it off an acrylic rod down the barrel coming it off a wall from a target...or Osama. Well see. As state I'm not an art major so this is mainly for fun. Wo knows!
Enjoy!
I used a handful of my normally thrown out CCI Alumn shells to make part of this. Obviously i used more alumn from else where but there are a couple hundred shells in this melted!
A glock has a lot more curves than i thought it did! Took awhile to sand out the glock from a foam block.
Its not the most accurately carved but i did my best.
This is the end result after the casting, its unpolished and still dirty.
I will post new pictures when its done and polished.
Update 5/5/11
Spent most of today's class drilling but started polishing. Still pretty cool. Was thinking of mounting it off an acrylic rod down the barrel coming it off a wall from a target...or Osama. Well see. As state I'm not an art major so this is mainly for fun. Wo knows!
Enjoy!
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