Collected the next character from the mould, this ones using orange, this one hasn't gone as well as the green one. The body seems to of got this weird texture to it. Not sure why that has happened, the only thing I could think of was that I hadn't cleaned the mould out properly. So for the next one I used Acetone to clean the mould out before pouring it.
Again today, I went through the same process of putting it in the oven and then sawing off the sproos and chunk in the tail. Its really hard sawing out the tail bit, it doesn't seem to look neat enough when its one as theres lots of cloudy bits from where Ive sawed.
I spoke to Leon and Andy today about being able to buffer the characters after and making them smooth. But they said that it wouldn't be possible to go through the buffering machine as the character is too fragile and would break in the process. We tried to think of all different ways of being able to do it, but they said that its just not possible. The only thing I can do really is file down the slightly bumpy bits and paint on clear nail varnish to gloss out the cloudiness from filing. It won't produce as good of results as buffering but will help to get out and chunks and bumps.
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