well here it is the first of 52 mounting tips to come! (otherwise known as useless trivial facts thread number two!)
In this next series, ill try to cover oddities and difficult projects as well as standard mounting procedures..
Now onto the tip. As previously promised, Ill shall do a quick over view of the BONDO septum. Please note that a very nice rticle on this very thing was in the latest issue of the "Artisan" magazine produced by the UTA>>Not meaning to copy that, but I did tell folks this woulb be coming....
Step 1 cut half the nose just behind nostrils then on the center line of the nose.
Then, put a layer of bondo on the center part of the piece removed- this is the septum to be..
The re-attached section, let the bondo kick
After the bondo kicks, continue the same cuts and whack the entire nose off...
You now have freedom to form the nostrils from the BACK as well as the front thus allowing very nice control!
worming the slot from the rear of the nose.
You can get as accurate as you want with the rear slots, even re-creating the exact slotting of the septum and nostril cavitie s.
Very easy to get accurate shape to the nostril wings!
Then bondo the whole nose back onto the mannikin and pin while it kicks.
Now if this is done right, the nostril skin gets trimmed just so and the bottom skin will lay into the tight slot created next to the bondo septum and the upper skin should be trimmed to fold up and into the nostril wing thus hiding the skin to mannikin transitions, and only a little apoxie work is needed on the front of the nostril interiors where the skin meets the septum! A nearkly ZERO finish nose interior... The septum was also thnnned ans smoothed with the dremmel. The septums show light as well.. I know of competition pieces done like this, and its an easy and quick thing for commercial as well, looks great and quickens the mounting process..
edit: in the UTA article they do an exact reacreation of the sinus slots on the back side of the nose. But it isnt needed as most of it can not be seen from any angle...
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