Little lost gem

I found these images of a pewter skull on my phone earlier and had totally forgotten to post about it haha! So here is a Skull made from Pewter, I will also talk about the process of making this skull.

So to make this skull I had to get a small amount of wax and mold it into the shape I wanted, which in this instance was a skull. The amount of detail varied from person to person but I wanted to at least have the teeth and nasal cavity so I marked them in.

Once I was happy with how it looked I had to attach a leg to the bottom of the skull so the wax could stand in the Plaster and the was could run out when melted and the Pewter could be poured in to the cast.

I then had to make the plaster which was done in the following steps:

1. Pour two cups of water into a bowl
2. Add a starter amount of plaster (roughly a cup full)
3. Start mixing the solution, if you need to add more plaster do so until its consistency is that of double cream
4. Once ready pour it into the last
5. Knock the cast to remove air bubbles and leave to set.

Once this was done I had to wait for the wax to be melted from the cast, and once it had I then had to heat the pewter and pour it into the cast which due to the heat began to crack, so concerns were raised as to whether it would be successful.

Once it set I was free to break the cast with a hammer and chisel and the skull was done.