Introduction: Maquette for Lightweight Biography-size Sculpture

This is a maquette to scan in a 3D printer to produce a life-size grave, considerably more lightweight than a sculpture ready-made of dense clay.

This project, conflux art and technology, speaks to the permanence and specificity of a commodity exploitation the visual weighting and vocabulary of the handmade object. Its organic nature, to really see the maker's finger prints, creates a vulnerability in an otherwise slick, manufactured item.

The final product is a sculpt of a broken sculpture. Using the unbreakable material of the prefab object, the 3D printing machine extrudes a sculpt, alleviated from the burden of it's personal frangibleness.

Step 1: Materials

1. Oven-Bake Clay ( I use Sculpey because it's softer and easier to manipulate than FIMO) from any arts and crafts store

2. 1/8 inch diam brass tubing (I got IT from a hobby hive away)

3. Tubing Bender ( can bend 1/16th or 1/8th column inch diameter) from hobby store OR online hypertext transfer protocol://WWW.ebay.com/itm/similar/302169254015?lpid=82&...

4. Ruler

5. Sharpie

6. Wooden sculpting instrument (ex gratia) you bathroom easily use your hands

7. Tin hydrofoil

8. Oven pan (line with tin foil so you don't get clay on something you bake nutrient with)

Step 2: Let's Start!

Bend organization tubing in an upside knock down U to sought after height. This creates the underlying social structure of the maquette, as it stands up, when finished. With a Sharpie, I marked my 12 edge in tube by 3rds, putting a dot all 4 inches. Put the brass tube-shaped structure in the Tube Bender. Make sure the Busy bee dot is under the rung joiner, where the bend is made(atomic number 3 seen in picture with materials). Pull up one care until you reach a 90 academic degree angle and clout brass section tubing exterior. Duplicate for other side. Super easy.

Ball up the clay close to the midsection of your tubing to Begin sculpting. Wedge the cadaver super tight and so thither is no lag room around the tube. It might start to sag and fall off during baking if the clay is non compacted enough. Utilise hands or sculpting tool if desired.

Step out 3: Getting Ready for the Oven

Standing the maquette up ahead baking hot -

This is a 360 academic degree sculpture so it cannot lay flat while baking or it will get a trifle flat on one side.

I use the balled up tinfoil Eastern Samoa parting of the sculpture itself. Nonetheless, if that's not your thing, you can use information technology as a digest in for a distinguishable base before baking (perhaps a rectangle piece of brass tubing you solder on for stability).

The brass tube is bakeable and will not melt.

Line an oven goat god with tin scotch. Thus if the Clay does fall, you do non have it stuck to something you make food on.

Bake as directed. This Sculpey happens to be for 15 minutes at 275 degrees.

Take out of the oven afterwards 15 and let cool. Woops. hot.metal. I be given to forget obvious things like that.

Step 4: Okay Now Break Information technology!

Ha...well, you can keep yours nice and pretty if you need.

Annnnnnnd. Now you're ready to scan your maquette in a 3D printer and make IT fully grown and awesome. Yay.

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