Stuff 'bout model making..

Hmm.

Being in a school where I am being trained to be a designer (hopefully a possibility after I extract meself from under the mountain of projects required for me to finish off in three weeks time), I am required (further) to create models of the products of my design. In particular, is the tape dispenser for which I created four prototype models out of blue foam (until the oil prices soared and blue foam went out of stock cuz the school refused to buy more as it was so expensive). So I finalised my design from those four prototypes, and now I am working on clay.

Nothing compares to the amount of trouble working with this medium of model-making materials. With the same viscosity as shit, and almost as expensive as blue foam (but still less resilient than the latter to the elements), I was very apprehensive about using this material. However, since it was a requirement from my lecturer (whose name, incidenatlly, is the same is spoken form as a swedish furniture company's name), it wasn't a matter of choice.

So i used clay to create my models. It was so hard to use, I broke three previous attempts (foolhardily feeble) in the process, and I had to change my design so as to prevent any such thing happening again. So far so good.

I just hope my clay can harden quickly enough just in time for me to finish it off by friday. I intend to spent as little time on it as possible. It is simply an absolute pain in the arse.

Cheers,

Crawldaddy