With the designing and routing out of the way, it is time to have a little old fashioned fun. It dioes’t take long to squeeze on a rough coat of sculpting epoxy and then we are on to the detailed layer. In the shot below you can see Dan working from the knight’s 'steel' boots upward. Ideally, on a sculpt like this, you don’t want to get too caught up in detail - you want to create the illusion of detail. We also want plenty of texture left on the surface so it takes glazes real well. Remember, he has to look old when we are done.
Here's a comparison of the two knights, one still largely bare Precision Board HDU and the other one with the sculpting process finished.
And as always, we placed him into position to check out how things will look when they are all done.
The sign will hang fairly high when it is finished, so the knight will lean slightly out, proudly standing guard over the entrance.
In our next instalment, we will take a look at the sign’s bracket.