Now to why I'm making the thread. On the side of my real job I work for my dad to make some extra cash. He gets orders for dinosaurs or any of his other stuff and passes them right down to me and I make them from scratch. Just today I started my first Tyrannosaurus Rex. It's pretty big...a lot of intricate pieces...and frustration. Each day I go into work on it, I'll post up my progress so you guys can watch how I bring a dinosaur back to life.
Today I started by shooting waxes. I use molds that have been used thousands of times. You shoot wax into the molds and get a wax of the part you're currently making.
As an example, here's a photo of two of the claws I shot.
Here's the progress so far. Every part of the dinosaur was shot today (some aren't in the picture, though.) Tomorrow I'll come in and cast them in bronze. After that, I put them together, mount, clean up, and I've got a dinosaur. Sounds easy, right? Well that'll be another ~6 hours.
Until nest time, here's a photo of my dad's most recent smilodon piece he did. Shit's cash.
And here's an article on my dad where you can view a lot of his stuff.
http://brantworks.com/skelmaker-nelson-maniscalco.php
-Simba
