{"id":1285,"date":"2022-04-14T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2022-04-15T04:57:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T09:57:04","slug":"been-skipping-leg-day-day-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Been Skipping Leg Day (day 61)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My track record with the 100 day challenge has been rather poor lately. Tonight I got back into it and turned my attention to the leg parts.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_leg_overview_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_leg_overview_1_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The leg parts so far..\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_leg_overview_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_leg_overview_2_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The lack of the top of the foot is very distracting but otherwise it feels real good to see the leg parts together again\"><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs with most of the other parts of the model, all this stuff was made ages ago. The upper leg parts go back to around <a href=\"\/?p=525\">2010<\/a>. The current sculpt of the lower leg is <a href=\"\/?p=545\">also from 2010<\/a> though a lot of the refinement work was done in <a href=\"\/?p=1090\">2019<\/a>. Most of the work on the feet was done in <a href=\"\/?p=871\">2012<\/a>. This project has been in the works for a long time.<br \/>\nSo far both the upper and lower legs have been in kind of a rough form, to get the overall shape. The plan was that after I got the basic shape of the parts to a state I was satisfied with, I&#8217;d recast the parts to make hollow copies, and then alter those copies to add details and differentiate the upper leg parts for the left and right side. The molds I use to produce these initial copies will essentially only be used a couple times. Fortunately (is it really fortunate?) I have some old, poorly-performing mold rubber that I can use up on these disposable molds. Tonight I started on the first half of the mold for the upper leg part.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_upper_leg_mold_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_upper_leg_mold_1_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"I started by building a mold box around the upper leg part and adding clay to hold the part and establish the parting line for the mold\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_upper_leg_mold_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_upper_leg_mold_2_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"I took some time to level and smooth the clay. A disposable mold doesn't need to be so pretty, but I want a good parting line on the mold so the shape of the part will be properly preserved.\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_upper_leg_mold_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_upper_leg_mold_3_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"I used a screwdriver bit to make registration keys to align the two mold halves to each other.\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_upper_leg_mold_4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220414_upper_leg_mold_4_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"Finally I poured the mold rubber. This rubber is pretty thick at this point, and I still don't have a compressor set up, so I can't minimize the bubbles with air pressure...  So I spent a bunch of time slowly sloshing the mold around to get bubbles out.\"><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not much, but it&#8217;s progress. From my recent experiences with this rubber, I should give it plenty of time to cure before I go messing with it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My track record with the 100 day challenge has been rather poor lately. Tonight I got back into it and turned my attention to the leg parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,86,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}