Mod Project

CHollman82 · Rated R Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 73

Paper mache is not exactly fiberglass... but yeah, the idea of a "mold" has been around for quite a while... Laughing

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

What about sculpey?

CHollman82 · Rated R Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 73

Actually, here's a good idea. What about wire mesh? Not like fence material but a fine wire mesh like people put in their cars grill. Making it a sphere would be difficult though, well, not really but making it look good as a sphere would be. Then, the entire thing would be see through. I think it would look cool, at least what I am envisioning in my mind does...

To make it a sphere you would have to take a similar size sphere and cut it from pole to pole at even intervals, the more the better, and then flatten it out to see what a flat cut sphere would look like. Then, take the mesh material and cut it to look the same and then fold it into a sphere and connect the sides somehow, maybe solder.

Look at this stuff, 30 bucks for a 12" x 48" sheet that could be cut to make a 30" x 30" square. Buy 2 for $60 (the price of most cases) and you get 60" x 60" of the stuff, which should be more than enough for a few screw ups lol

http://www.autodirectsave.com/MeshGrille.asp

LaTech · Posted: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:20:10 Post Subject:

Or, I could use that as the basis for the thing and then use firberglass over it...?

Thanks for the idea there CHoll (and others!)!

CHollman82 · Rated R Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 73

That would work too, though I kind of liked the see through industrial look, but its your mod...

**Jason** · Posted: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:26:02 Post Subject:

These guys have hollow plastic spheres up to 90" in diameter:

http://www.complexplastics.com/balls/index.htm

**Jason** · Posted: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:47:04 Post Subject:

Just curious - you ever do anything on the sphere project?

LaTech · Posted: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:11:39 Post Subject:

Unfortuantely, no. It ended up that the sphere I was looking for WAS made, but it would have cost me about $300-$400...which was about $250-$350 more than I thought it would be. I scrapped the idea shortly after that.

I looked into the other ideas of making a sphere, but was worried about stability and static issues.