Vac-forming process

Vac-forming process from Lily Greenhalgh on Vimeo.


Unfortunately something went wrong with the vac-forming process! You can see at about 00:10 the details start to come through, but at 00:11 there's a small pop and the details are lost. Seeing as the heat from the vac-former will have dried the clay, we only really had one shot at vac-forming the mask. This means a little extra work, and some problem solving.
My current options are:
1) Sculpt and vac-form the mask all over again.
2) Add details to this vac-formed version.
3) Try and get the clay out and attempting to vac form it again.
The most time, material and cost efficient option was 2); Essentially I have to use some epoxy putty to sculpt the missing features onto the mask. This does mean quite a bit more time will be spent on this mask than I had initially planned, throwing my time schedule out slightly, so I'll have to compensate by putting more hours into the mask, staying later or working faster to keep up to date. These things are sent to try us!