Kryten Mold

After securing the two halves of the plaster cast with duct tape, you can begin to fill it with latex.

 Four or five coats later the mask was carefully removed.

 I am very pleased with the result. Although, after a few days the colour of the mask darkened to a sickly orange. I would have prefered it to have kept this light flesh colour as this is close to the actual colour of the character.

 The excess Latex is trimmed with scissors and eye and nostril holes are created before wearing.

 

 

 Although this has turned out better than expected, there are still many imperfections and discolourations to the mask.  This gives me the idea to create some sort of zombie Kryten costume.  Possibly even a zombie version of the entire cast of Red Dwarf, if I could get some friends involved.

Kryten Cast

Time to cast the sculp properly this time.

Spray the entire piece with 'Krystal Clear' which is a sort of varnish.  This is to ease the removal of the plaster later on.

 Next, make a dividing wall.  I put three keys in as well (the nobbly bits of clay on the wall) to help when the two halves of the cast need to be put back together.

 Then slop on the plaster, making sure to cover the whole surface AND the dividing wall.

 I think I put three thick layers of plaster on, with the second and third layers I added 'Jute Scrim' to strengthen the cast.

 When this dried I removed the wall, covered the exposed plaster with copius amounts of vaseline and casted the second half.

After drying, gently prise apart the two halfs using a srewdriver or similar.

Remove the mannequin head and the clay et voila a cast for a Kryten mask.

Kryten Sculp

 So here's the attempt at a simple mask....

KRYTEN from RED DWARF

 

Again, this is oil based clay which has been built up over a mannequin's head, which has been wrapped in cling film. This is to stop the clay ruining the polystyrene head.

 This was a process of refining the basic shape of Kryten's head and smoothing the clay carefully.  This took a long time to get to something I was happy with...

Behold Kryten.