Staff of Ra Headpiece Custom Stand

[landronartifacts]

I've been looking forever for a decent way to prop up my Staff of Ra headpiece to no avail. I considered using one of those little fold-out photo stands, but I thought there had to be a better way. After a while I figured I should just make my own and get it over with. It's made out of hard foam carved with a hot wire foam cutting tool and later painted. The colors in the pics aren't quite right though, as the color of the stand is supposed to be more yellowish to look more like Egyptian pyramid stone.


Here it is in its home, right at the feet of the Raiders Premium Format fig.






I designed it so it can be displayed in 2 ways, centered, and off centered. I still can't decide which way I like best.


Hmmm.... if it was human sized it would make for an interesting couch! lol.

-AL

[fuzzjunk]

Wow! Nice Job, looks incredible!

-Scott

[Deleted]

Very nice work.

Cheers,
John

[Noah]

Great job there! Looks awesome!

[Stefana Jones]

Fine work ! Cool display !!

I prefer it displayed off-center myself.

[zmarty]

terrific!

[wolfie]

Very awesome! I stole your idea, though it doesnt look nearly as good as yours. I didnt have a foam cutting tool so I did it by heating up an xacto blade lol

[landronartifacts]

Haven't posted in a while. Anyway, here's what I've been up to these days. These hand-carved stands were becoming a little too time consuming on the long run. I eventually decided that I should devote a good amount of time to develop one single master sculpt, and cast it. This not only freed me up to spend more time on more things, but also eliminated variants in sculpts... all castings would become identical to the original master. Another thing that was driving me nuts is the fumes of the melting foam. Even with my vent box it was a little too much.

The material I chose was something I had only recently become aware of: Hydrocal white.



It's a gypsum-based cement, but unlike Plaster of Paris, it's very high grade. It captures superb detail, and is ridiculously strong. It also gives a nice stone-like feel and weight that's appropriate for this piece.


Silicone mold.


Fresh unpainted casting.


Completed piece.

-AL

[landronartifacts]

Some more pics of the new stand:









-AL