Comments on: Hirst Arts Cathedral: Casting

By: MykillM

MykillM — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:38:23 +0000

Wow ! , missed visiting this site , when computer was getting up graded , sadd I did not visit sooner keep up the inspiring work !

By: Stu

Stu — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:10:46 +0000

I enjoy working with balsa wood and have a fair selection of it in my garage so I was going to build a set of lightly detailed beam-work in the Cathedral…

I guess I could go the extra distance and actually make it robust enough to support a cast plaster roof…that way I could build a removeable roof in the future?

By: onscreen

onscreen — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:06:00 +0000

Couldn’t you do both a ruined roof and a non-ruined roof that sits on top, so that you can have either senario…. ;-)

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:25:14 +0000

Heh. Nah it’s not that bad. The trick with Hirst Arts molds is just to cast them more or less constantly :). I usually do a couple a week in my spare time. That way you have a stock of common pieces built up. Around half of the simple gothic blocks for this project came from my pre-cast stores.

Plus with such a large project it’s built in sub-parts…so I can cast and build at the same time. I’m just about to start doing that for the Cathedral.

The only annoyance is that this project will pretty much clear out my stock of pieces…but that’s ok since I figure it’s going to be at least a year of work to get it finished anyway – plus I have at least 2 other half finished Hirst Arts projects to complete.

By: burbsee

burbsee — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:48:30 +0000

ohhhhhhhhhh man that looks depressing going through molding so many pieces!!.you have to be determined to do the stuff you do-to your credit-one day if i got half the amount of patience you must have i would be happy!!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:55:44 +0000

Good luck with that Stu.