Molding Phase

The most difficult part of this project was figuring out where my parting line would be for this two part mold. In most of the clay projects, you could simply split the part in half, however, with so many intertwining tentacles at different elevations, that method would no be possible, if I wanted to be able to get my clay model out of the mold. I decided that the best approach would be to have my parting line follow the clay model along the tentacles by splitting each of them in half.

To start the bottom mold, I cut a foam core base that had at least ¾" of clearance on all sides of the clay model. Then, I started building up a ½" layer of paper clay, so that I could have cut a pour hole at the bottom of the base later on.