Bronze is easy to cast, even into intricate shapes, and then also easy to finish. Details can be soldered easily instead of welded and it's not too hard or brittle for handwork
>I am pretty good with clay
Then make it in clay first.
casting?
This. Once you have it in clay you can use wax casting to make a metal one.
You could also ask the museum if they have a 3d scan of the original. 3d print it in small sections and glue them together to make a plastic model, then wax cast it from that.
Bronze is easy to cast, even into intricate shapes, and then also easy to finish. Details can be soldered easily instead of welded and it's not too hard or brittle for handwork
Take a class at a local college in it, or see if there's local founderies that offer classes. In the Bay Area, there's the Crucible that offers classes, and you can use their equipment, and get your pieces poured.
For what purpose? There's all kinds of options depending on whether it's a prop or decoration that lives imdoors and doesn't need to last for a thousand years, or an actual monument that will go outside and *is* expected to survive for many generations.
You can make a model using wood or plaster then use it to make a base to work on metal or ceramic or whatever. It's not hard. The hard part is to find where the golden horns went.
Honestly its much easier to carve a thing of this size out of stone than to cast it in any metal, casting something this big is a huuge amount of work, you can watch art casting on youtube to get a feeling of the process
To Black personrig it you could probably just use plaster and then seal it
Yeah I saw a reenactment with a scaled model of how the 13th century japanese cast the Kamakura Daibutsu (Great Buddha) 鎌倉大仏 statue.
I can't find the video but it looked like a lot of work and expensive bronze when you could just stack rocks and hit them with a chisel
Probably out of wood with a chainsaw I reckon if I don’t want a steel concrete reinforced fireplace or wall mounting it.!
I'd probably find a big boulder somewhere and carve it in-place. If you really wanted to you could transport it somewhere afterwards
>If you really wanted to you could transport it somewhere afterwards
Helicopters probably the best option.
clay
hammerform sheets of the metal of your choice into shape, weld them together, clean up the seams, weld supports inside as needed
Very carefully
Okay, but how do I do these ornaments when I weld it?
I am pretty good with clay but I think the clay would just crumble at that size. The original, pic rel, is made out of bronze or coppter, I think.
casting?
those are Bronze, right?
Bronze is easy to cast, even into intricate shapes, and then also easy to finish. Details can be soldered easily instead of welded and it's not too hard or brittle for handwork
Bronze is not easy to cast at that size, at all - and it's not bronze, it's carved sandstone.
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/discovery-collection-memory-oriental-institute-100/colossal-bull-head/
>I am pretty good with clay
Then make it in clay first.
This. Once you have it in clay you can use wax casting to make a metal one.
You could also ask the museum if they have a 3d scan of the original. 3d print it in small sections and glue them together to make a plastic model, then wax cast it from that.
these sort of details/defects indicate casting
It's carved stone. Those areas are most likely the binder/cement they used to restore it, it was shipped to Chicago in pieces and put back together.
It's carved stone. I've seen it, it's in Chicago, at the University.
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Get a large piece of stone and some sculpting skills.
It's limestone.
why would it crumble at that size if it's clay? wouln't there be less shrinkage and therefore have more integrity? it's not thin either.
What's the easiest way to get into casting? something like hdpe in the kitchen oven?
if you want to meet jesus, sure
It's hdpe? cut up a milk jug place bits in a form, set the oven to like 180 turn off oven and let it cool
Take a class at a local college in it, or see if there's local founderies that offer classes. In the Bay Area, there's the Crucible that offers classes, and you can use their equipment, and get your pieces poured.
https://www.thecrucible.org/course-search/?department%5B0%5D=Foundry
>How would I go about making something like this?
You?
you won't
the bull is going
>it's over
What?
For what purpose? There's all kinds of options depending on whether it's a prop or decoration that lives imdoors and doesn't need to last for a thousand years, or an actual monument that will go outside and *is* expected to survive for many generations.
Many ways, depending on the material.
You can make a model using wood or plaster then use it to make a base to work on metal or ceramic or whatever. It's not hard. The hard part is to find where the golden horns went.
Papier maché
There's an ancient gigantic bronze statue of buddha in japan cast in steps.
I wanted to know how difficult is it to make your own bronze castings?
Honestly its much easier to carve a thing of this size out of stone than to cast it in any metal, casting something this big is a huuge amount of work, you can watch art casting on youtube to get a feeling of the process
To Black personrig it you could probably just use plaster and then seal it
Yeah I saw a reenactment with a scaled model of how the 13th century japanese cast the Kamakura Daibutsu (Great Buddha) 鎌倉大仏 statue.
I can't find the video but it looked like a lot of work and expensive bronze when you could just stack rocks and hit them with a chisel