Tuesday, December 3, 2019

WEEK #13

Fabric lamination test :

For the waist bag, I would like to use a very durable fabric. I found 2 ways : one using cordura waterproof coated or laminated from aliexpress and one using kevlar that I laminate myself with TPU (also because I don't like the color of kevlar).

I made some test. 

Here we can see the black thin TPU layer that I ironed onto a cheap heavy cotton fabric.
I think it look ok. On the right picture, I tried to rip and cut the fabric to see if it gets ugly.  

There I tried a slightly thicker layer of TPU. It works also great but maybe I should have waited a bit more to really get a nice bond. 
We can see I tried to delaminate it, it was very very difficult but possible compare to the previous black layer where it couldn't.




I took some weight out of the surfboard blank. I tried different technique but the Japanese saw worked the best. So I did it bit by bit as you can see on the picture.
Now I need to get the outline sharper and then draw the template of the rocker on it.





Made some fine tuning on my "visual communication pack" : better details and better font.




Finally I made the second mask work thanks to Tiago. Also it was difficult to export properly the rigged body.