Saturday, October 9, 2021

New Acquisition: Part 8 Direct Cast

 

Just bought this from Marcos Medina--its a rare resin casting that came directly off the front of the hero mask used in Friday the 13th Part 8. These castings came from Beyond Disgusting Studios, who got an old mold from an unnamed professional FX artist in Hollywood. At right is a clear vac blank produced by BDS by creating a buck from one of the direct castings. Amazingly no distortions or size increase happened in the vac pulls. As you can see, they're perfectly sized, although some modification had to be done to reduce the super-wide spread of the original mold and return it to the correct width.

Here's a recent shot of Mario with the movie mask that both of these came from.

3 comments:

  1. Cool score! Any tips you don't mind sharing on how you painted that Part 8 (colors, etc)? Best one I've seen.

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  2. Also, what did you use to get all of the little scratches? Thanks!

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    1. The colors were a custom acrylic mix that I did myself, the straw yellow color is pretty close to Krylon Buttercream. Little scratches were done with a combination of a razor and a small tip dremel. I also used a silver ink pen to fill in the bigger scratches on the front of the mask, I think the movie mask was actually painted silver on the front as well as the back so some of that paint shows through the damage.

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