Day 18 I pretty much just fell asleep. It’s not crucial that I always succeed in making progress on the project every day but of course that’s what I’m aiming for, so it’s a bit disappointing when I don’t.
Anyway today I focused on refining the edges of the pauldron, using measurements from the centerline to determine where to add or remove material. I also adjusted the position of the side spike and made an unfortunate discovery about the front spike…

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“Day 16” didn’t amount to much – motivation was low and I didn’t have a clear idea of what I wanted to accomplish. I spent a bit of time carving and refining the new putty work on the pauldron. Tonight I opened up the spike mold I made a couple days ago to see how it turned out, and cast a few copies of the pauldron spike.

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Not a lot of progress today – since the pauldron is shaping up I think I need to start seeing how it will look with the spikes on. I formed the spike part years ago, and made molds to recast it – but as with a lot of materials related to this project those spike molds have been lost. I decided to try a one-part mold for the part this time.

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Today I worked on correcting some symmetry issues with the shoulder pauldron. With this build of the pauldron it was mostly just the spike fringes that were carefully aligned at the start of the process (and even then, they required some rework) – the rest was mostly free-sculpted. So it’s kind of natural that there would be some symmetry issues. My hope is that a little bit of measurement and tweaking will get the part to a passable state.

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If I were superstitious, I should have stuck to my daily routine for the 100 day challenge yeaterday and skipped it today. Fortunately I am not prone to that particular brand of foolishness.

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Tonight I adjusted some of my pauldron work that I’d done on other recent nights. I can’t really hope to get the alignment of these parts exactly right, but if I can spot something wrong, and verify it with a measurement, then I can do better.

Having created the shell layer for the pauldron yeaterday, today I took my first pass at refining it. This process involves a lot of eyeballing, measuring, trimming, and sanding to make the part look better.

I started off today’s session by going back to yeaterday’s work to try to make sure it was properly formed and aligned – somewhat surprisingly I didn’t find anything that I felt really required revision. Compared to my first attempt and the spike work that followed, the process for building out the shoulder this time was a little simplified, using only three cross-sections instead of five, but it’s quickly produced a good result. So today I’m moving on to adding a layer of epoxy putty to form the pauldron itself.

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Tonight I continued the work on the shoulder pauldron, filling out the shape with clay and casting the “spike fringe” parts I need to complete it.

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This wasn’t the most productive day, but it’s progress:
I’ve returned to the shoulder pauldron parts I drew up on sheet styrene back on Day 2 – I cut them out, duplicated each of them, and joined them together to make a 3D framework for sculpting the shoulder pauldron.

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