Post #772955 by danlovestikis on Tue, Feb 14, 2017 8:11 AM

Wish List #7 continues with lunavideogames wish.

His idea inspired the Sacramento Crawl mug. I have made the mold for those so now I can modify the sculpture to make his idea.

His mug will say Tiki The Hut inspired by Jabba.

He wanted a hula girl to represent Leah but I couldn't make it so I could mold it so I did a mermaid instead.

What I need to change for his mug is this backside.

I removed the detail from the sculpture and started the replacement.

When he said he wanted the name of his city I also removed the detail at the bottom to make room.

I rolled out snakes and spelled the name. San Diego fit perfectly.

Next I used my label scrapper and sliced off the part of the letters that stuck out.

Then I used a little stick to press the sides and to make them stick to the back of the tiki.

I cut some pieces of the sculptures clay and then rolled them so that they were all the same thickness.

I used a spike to cut out each letter.

All the letters fit to the back of the tiki.

I rolled out a whole bunch of tiny snakes and pressed them along the side of each letter.

I did this around every side of every letter.

Once they were all secured I cut off the letters to make them less thick.

Using this tool where possible I smoothed the side.

One done. I did it at a 45 degree angle so that the letters will come out of the mold piece easily.

A little detail at the top and this backside is all done.

This mug will be for Treg's aka lunavideogames home tiki bar.

Cheers! Wendy