I'm working on a show model -- a highly detailed O-scale 1890's passenger
car -- and I'm up to the interior. I've tried various techniques for
modeling the luxurious seats typical in First Class cars of this era, mostly
very elaborate fabrics in "overstuffed" upholstered seats that more resemble
couches than benches. Anyway, my current candidate for the representation
is to take a bare cast metal seat (Keil-Line) and to model the upholstery by
molding Sculpey clay into suitable cushion shapes. But I've got on the
order of 16-32 of these to make [depending on the final seating
configuration which isn't settled yet] and that's a humongous amount of
handwork. Duplicating a few pieces by casting is a natural way to replicate
them but I'm not really sure I want to tackle as my first casting project a
bunch of 3D objects like coach seats. Are there any services which will do
small scale custom casting for a reasonable fee?
TIA
Norm
- posted 16 years ago