Fan art on another level

Tom Hoen

<div class="IPBDescription">Cute gorge fan art</div><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b>INFO</b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->
As my topic title doesn't tell you much I give you reveal to my little mystery. Today I made gorge out of silver. "SILVER?!" you may ask. And yes, it is silver fineness of 925. Dimensions are something 2 x 2 x 2,5 cm. Yes you can see my fingerprints on the surface but I think they give some good Kharaa texture.

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It was really fun to make and I had some hard times with original model (which was made from wax) as it melted in my fingertips. First I tried to make elephants but surprisingly I accindentally flattened them. So after a hour of frustation and failing I played for a while with Spark and boom I realized what I should do, I should do gorge. This wax gorge was made in 10 minutes and it wasn't flat, nothing like my failed elephants...

Then it was easy to make gypsum mold and pour the molten silver. Rest is history.

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These all are the same silver gorge, just photographed in different lighning and different stages of polishing.

Click the images for larger and better quality.

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Also the newest and finished product.

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<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Leaving the hive<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

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Heyman

Silver gorge. SILVER GORGE. D'awwwwwww.

Feha

Now you need to make some sort of thing that uses its as an exposed switch (silver conducts electricity). So when you place it on said thing, and touches it, you get a strong shock (connected to the wall electricity ofc, maybe some resistances if it has a tendency to get warm and melt).

"Hey, cool gorge dude."
"Dont touch!"
"Yeesh, dude calm down, I will be carefull."
*BZZZT*
"Told you."
"cll un uin ouh..." (call one-one-two)

Scythe

Sweet! I've done casting in aluminium and tin, but not silver. Never anything with that amount of small detail though.

Here's a D20 I cast. You can just see the numbering on it.

<img src="http://www.tjhowse.com/furnace/d20/d2001.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

More stuff <a href="http://www.tjhowse.com/furnace/" target="_blank">here</a>.

--Scythe--

PhiXX

Nice one, your gorgy isn't flat, it sure is cute and fat, not bad :)

SgtBarlow

Thats cool.

Hahhaa, Smelting kit:

1x Smeling Pot
1x Hacksaw
1x Hair Dryer
1x Extension lead
1x Steel Tube
1x Rool of Ducktape
1x Crowabar ?
Fire Extinguisher
Flammable Magazine
plus a set of worried neighbours