Making a dragon

Here's a potential good link for ya. Good luck.
http://www.geocities.com/stopmoworks/moldpics.htm

Gelatin is great for temporary make up appliances, but unsuitable for prop work.

A soft Foam latex will fight the mechanisms less than slush cast latex. Hot foams are available in softer grades than cold foams, but are more fiddly to get consistent batches to come out right. Cold foams are easier to use but release a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas, so they should be used out of doors in warm weather.

Silicone is expensive, and much harder to glue & color, but is quite flexible.

Hot melt Vynil (Plastisol) is less expensive, very elastic in the softest grades (usually used for making lifelike fishing lures), but a real pain to color & glue.

if you go to my link page, then scroll down, you'll see a link that says "starting out" or something like that...has some basic pics that are totally related to this. also you can find lots of other cool stuff in there

as far as sculpting goes, making a basic form out of polystyrene foam insulation covered with wood glue makes for an excellent armature. The wood glue helps the oil based clay hold onto it better. the best bet for this may be to make the sculpture first, then build the mechanics into it afterward.

Regular mask latex may be somewhat stiff, but can be used, possibly in conjunction with some "carpet foam" like you would find in a couch cushin.

As jeff points out, there are some different materials available...although i would stay away from most of them, especially the hot pour vinyl...cool stuff but a bit of a pain to work with.

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If it weren't such a pain in the tush I'd use it more often. You always have to weigh the pros & cons of materials.Jeff F

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If you need any general help just drop an email, always willing to help out especially in the puppet area

later
TOm

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