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Drawings
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Drawings of the mothership shape from last year.
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Routing profile shapes for new Soul Cycle mold
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Sandwich revealing approximate contours of new Soul Cycle
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Exterior panels in place. Ready for foam filler.
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Inner templates guide me as I sculpt the foam.
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Carving foam for Soul Cycle Mothership, revealing inner skeleton
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Templates peek through foam as I take off more and more material with the hot knife
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After each cut, I quickly turn off the power to avoid smoking the cutting wire.
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The masonite templates are the guides for the cut
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New Soul Cycle handlebar mounted control panel
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Covering the form with epoxy.
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The foam surface is imperfect. I apply thickened epoxy to create a candy coating
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Marking low spots on the form to remember where to build up the epxy
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Using different colors of thickened epoxy to build up candy coating on Soul Cycle mothership.
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Building up the candy coating on the positive form of the Soul Cycle Mothership.
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Low spots remain glossy. Must keep sanding.
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Worked on a trash can so I could rotate the form at any angle (and collect dust)
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Green gave way to red as I sanded through layers of the candy coating
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Has a shape that suggests a friendly animal.
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Carrying 120 pounds of plaster and clay to the shop
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Too much of a gap -- speakers won't mount flat
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Smeared epoxy on a known flat surface to fill gaps.
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Gaps are now gone, more sanding begins.
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Look ma, No gaps.
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Plywood cut with a router using same template as the mothership form.
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The plywood table bisects the form allowing me to put plaster on the left hand side of the form.
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Clamps? How did you know I love clamps?
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Bamboo rack laminated from 7 layers of flooring.
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Getting the sides of the Mothership flat with an old Snap Deck
