perfectly while we still need to cut off the sprues. Step Five: Welding, assembling and finishing. Step Six: Patination. We do black patina on the bronze. The final work look fantastic. If you have any technical question for your own project, feel free to contact us. ...Stainless steel cast sculpture looks really beautiful and intriguing if done well. However, duo to its extremely high melting temperature (1800 degree Celsius) and tough chasing & finishing process, it is much more difficult to cast stainless steel than cast bronze. There are types of stainless steel for casting sculptures options: stainless steel Grade 201, stainless steel Grade 316, stainless steel Grade 316L. We can cast all of them. However, we recommend stainless steel 316 for sculpture as it is marine grade alloy, featuring superior corrosion resistance performance even in salty water. Below is a stainless steel sculpture we recently cast. We cast with stainless steel Grade 316 and polish it a little bit to make it shiny. Here is our work flow. Step One: Making the pattern. We use modern 3D printing technology to make the pattern from a digital model our client provides us. Step Two: Making silicon rubber mold Step Three: Make Wax Step Four: Cast stainless steel and polish Feel free to contact us if you need an inquiry of your own
odel of the sculpture, which is for us to 3D print and cast bronze. The artist creates the digital model by 3D scanning his maquette. Step 2: 3D Printing There are a few options of 3D Printings. Below are some of the most commonly used, which are chosen based on the size and printing of your sculpture. 3DP : Used for small sized object. It can be useful when you need your sculptures to be printed in color. MEM: It features high strength and low cost. The accuracy is not very high. SLS: It can print out different material, even metal. SLA: It is useful for small sized works. Accuracy is acceptable. After data processing, we 3D print out the digital model. We choose the High Definition mode to make the surface of the sculpture smooth. Please note, even printing with the most advanced printer, the surface of the sculpture has to be sanded and smoothened. For some low end 3D printer, there will be lots of layered line left on the surface so you need to make sure to sand it completely. We suggest using very fine sand paper for sanding the 3D print. The sand paper we use #1000 and #2000. Step 3: Molding We make rubber mold as well as wax mould from the 3D print. It is important to compare the wax with the 3D as well as the original digital model very carefully and retouch the wax if necessary. There are two options for bronze casting: lost wax casting and sand casting. Since most of 3D print is small in size, we use lost wax casting technique in...Knowing the options and difference betw
. Of course sculpture is not an exception. I have a few random thoughts on how the smart phone and mobile internet can possibly change the way viewers interact with the sculpture and its artist. ( the sculpture above is by renowned artist Anish Kapoor ) In the future, every public art will have its own 2D barcode. Viewers can use their phone to scan the barcode and it leads them to a web page, allowing them to Browse more background info on this piece of work: why and how it is made, The page can even play some video clips on the manufacturing process. The page even allows viewers to interact with the artist in a living way. I can imagine it is not difficult to connect with the barcode with an instant messager like
