10-05-2009, 05:08 AM
I'll even make the first posting- here's a photo of my test attempt at shaping a 5th-4th centuries BCE Greek muscled cuirass (front)- obviously it's rather harder to make in thick copper alloy, so I thought to begin with thin sheet steel (0.65mm) to work out just how to form the musculature. It's based on some of the beautiful examples from the ex-Guttmann collection and one from the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It's incomplete since it is just a test- no need to do the whole thing once various parts are understood. One day I hope to have the time to get on with the copper alloy example using what I learned here- and really this is the first Greek piece I've tried so is all I have to present here in the new section :wink:
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