Thank you sp and Terri for your continued support!
Ken
I gotta know how you did the seat cushion. "I made it from Miliput." You might as well have said. "I carved it from soft balsa." Just how did you get those creases radiating from each of the indented buttons?
Hmm, you know my solution is patented? Are you able to pay the license fees?
I guess you know that epoxy putty?
So I formed a thin flat piece after kneaded both components. With a cutter I removed the parts, which are to big, so you get the form of the cushion. That is easy so far. But now about the surface and the buttons ...
I have great respect for the artists who use such putty to sculpt a figure! I couldn't do it, so I have to let physics work for me
I also found this by chance when I built my Albatros W.4. I had a very thin foil of a bag underneath (I mean really thin, e.g. a small transparent bag from the supermarket for fruits and vegetables or a garbage bag. My digital measuring slide says 0.01mm!) to not dirty my workbench. Then I also put the foil also on top and pressed the small ball of
milliput flat. And I noticed that when I pressed the recesses of the buttons with a toothpick, the foil warped and creased just as the surface of the seat cushion would have done realistically. This only works if the
milliput is still very soft and fresh, after half an hour, for example, it is already to hard. Let it for a moment and then remove the foil. If you do not like it, roll it to a ball and try again, a bit of experimenting is needed.
I hope, my explanation is clear enough, otherwise I will try to make pictures.
Back to the licence fee: If we ever get together, you can buy me a beer
Cheers,
Frank
