Fourth Entry

After a 14 day hiatus from updates, here's our progress thus far:

Have been working on stagecoaches and molds...everything's been going smoothly. Waiting on puppet materials to come in, other then that, cutting illustration board has been giving us premature arthritus.

Third Entry

Just chugging along on props and characters. We have two block molds left, and then both characters can be casted.

My dad completed the stagecoach frame this week, and he went above and beyond all expectations I had. It's going to animate wonderfully.

My sexy hand building a whiskey crate, trying to keep as true to Glenn's original artwork as I can.

Drayson carving illustration board.

Gear mechanism on the stagecoach, built from scratch!

Stagecoach glory shots.

More posts to come this week. We've got a lot to do!

Second Entry

Finishing up molds this week. Calamity's mold is completed, and we are now working on the Driver's. The Driver's mold is a two-part Ultra Cal 30, which isn't nearly as complex as Calamity's, which also means not as many things can go wrong (we're hoping).

Also picking up the stage coach frame this week from my (Tyson's) Dad. Can't wait to assemble it!

This is are machinist/shop tech Alex, he's creating the armatures that we'll be using.

Ready to pour the front silicone half of Calamity.

My sexy self pouring the silicone into the mold.

Stainless steel armature parts (brass chest block)

Completed mold!

Preparing to pour an Instacast copy of Calamity.

Preparing the Driver for his Ultracal mold.

That growth for a neck is his sprue hole, from which we'll be pouring in the foam.

Drayson with our first (failed) Calamity copy. From here (after we make a complete cast), we're going to cut off her head and hands, and make silicone block molds to cast from.

Here's a 7 min + video of Drayson and I casting the first Calamity.

First Entry

Hello all, welcome to the Calamity Jane blog. Yee-Haw! We'll be documenting the production the best we can, hope you learn something useful or interesting!

Calamity Jane's matrix mold (images displayed in reverse). We're using Ultracal 30 for the plaster, and b mix water clay for shaping everything.