Last post...which was...some time ago...in July I beleive...could be wrong...doesnt matter though, anyway, last post, I mentioned making Jack's dragon ring from Dead Man's Chest. Well, I have completed it. It was a long and tedious affair and took lots of work.
Firstly, I needed to find a way to actualy make the ring part...that wasnt so easy. I found a peice of pipe that I took form shop class last year, that worked rather well. So, with some Magic Sculp epoxy putty, I managed to from a band for the ring. Once it set I began to add to it, and beef it up, using polystyrene strip for support. Everntualy, I had made up the bas of the ring. Then, I crafted a "stone" from epoxy and set it into the base. After that was done, the real hard part came. The 3 dragons on the sides and top.
I tried many different methods to creat the little buggers, most of which ended in failure and in some cases, pure disastor. I originaly made one from a rolled out peice of epoxy...it didnt turn out that great. Then, I used my Dremel to carve out a peice of wood...that didnt work either. Next, I drew one on plastic and tried to make a cookie cutter type thing...that didnt work. Next, I tried to carve a was mold. The melted candle wax was too soft, so I remelted it and added some harder stuff which...was bad. When I poured the molten wax into the container it melted the container and hot wax spilled out all over the kitchen. That was fun needless to say. After that, I tried making it out of thick plastic with my dremel. That didnt work either. Finaly, I printed out mirrored pictures of the dragons, laminated them and sculpted them over the picture. I used a razor thin peice of metal I got from an old broken Wacom Tablet to slice it off the paper. I stuck it on the ring, and let it dry. It didnt. The damn thing never dried. So, after a week, I pulled it off and made a new one. This one dryed, and quick too. It was pretty much, perfect. I made the second dragon that same night. Once they were done, I printed and laminated a picture of the 3rd dragon and sculpted it the same way. One it was dried, I carefully pulled them all off and carved some detail into the ring base with my Dremel. Then, I glue the side dragons on and proceded to paint the thing.
I used my skillz to make the "stone" look like jade by laying down a coat of black and drybrushing different green's and metallics onto it, then I coated it with clear acrylic gloss. After that dried, I painted the rest with a mixture of brown, black, green and gold, to give it an aged copper look. Then I drybruhsed a custom mixed copper color onto it to make it look work. I glued the final dragon into place on the top of the ring and coated it all in clear acrylic to protect the paint.
I must say, even I am stunned by the results.
I found a rather large box and stuffed it with packing foam to put the ring in, until I find or make a smaller box that will fit this big ass ring. I went into photoshop and made artwork to decorate the box as well, and I must say, it looks like something I could sell, or something I had bought. It doesnt look like I made it by hand. So, Im impressed with this myself.
I had some concern about the paint chiping off, but its seems to have cured all the way now and is really strong. It made it through a day without chipping so I think it'll be fine.
Im thinking about making another one and making copies of it to sell...but Im not sure. I know people would buy it, but I dont know if I could make it in any other size...aside form gargantuan, so we'll see I suppose.

Aside from that I bought Jack's skull ring off ebay, cause its cool... and it didnt cost like...280 dollars...I got fairly cheap IMO. Im also making a webcomic with a friend of mine, I'll keep whoever the fuck reads this thing up to date on that, or rather...you'll know when we launch it. Rest asured it will involve rock music, guitars, and gay dudes of coarse.

But, anyway, until next time, Adios.