the Phantom

1/11/2019

I really struggled with the Phantom's mask. The first one was way too wide, and too thick, so I tried a second time. Of course, with Apoxie it was never going to be in scale since the real mask was made using vacuum form plastic over a plaster casting of the actor's face. And my Rex is 1/4 scale, so realistically his mask should be 1/4 the thickness of the real mask - which would be thinner than a sheet of paper - so no matter what I made it out of it would be too thick.

So I did the best I could, and although it wasn't perfect, it had to do...

...and 'onstage'......

Donna

1/11/2019 09:03:33 pm

His mask looks fine and he looks great - and very mysterious and just a little bit sinister.

How did you ever manage all those candles? I'd have been afraid of setting everything on fire!

Martha

1/11/2019 10:09:58 pm

Thanks! The mask turned out good enough, but I love him without it. Then he's very mysterious, almost looks like Dracula, but way more handsome.

I was very careful with the candles. And this was just the first photos session. I had even more the second time round. I'd glue-gunned the candles onto the stands so I could move them as needed, so there were no issues with flames....but I did have to scrape a lot of wax off my table afterwards.

kenaiqueen

1/12/2019 01:47:37 am

He looks wonderful!

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