A technician is
putting the finishing touches to the cast of the skull after
it has been mounted on the steel armature that artriculates
the lower jaws to the cranium and also has the coupler that
connects it to the neck. |
On the table are 13 vertebrae that were missing
spines and lateral processes. The grayish parts are the real,
original bones that we have, the creamy yellow is the sculpting
clay that we used to restore the missing parts. Now that this
is done, we will be making the molds of the restored vertebrae. |
| In this case we did not use the real bones to restore
the skull, we made casts of the bones we had, and incorporated
these skull bone casts into a foam block which we then carved
into a complete skull. The yellowish parts are the casts of the
real bones that we have, the pure white is the sculpted part. |
We indeed use old hospital gerneys to move our "patient
" around. Nothing is smoother running than those. On this
gerney are a number of vertebrae and chevrons that are coated
with latex rubber which is curing. This latex will later be peeled
of the original bones and give us the flexible molds that we need
to duplicate the bones throughout the process of casting. |
| This is before we started restoring the skull, we molded the
bones of the skull then made casts of them which we later used
in the restoration. In this picture you see the anterior part
of the original dentary with teeth in it. Next to the dentary
is a similar object that is creamy white. It is the cast or duplicate
of the original bone. |
In this picture you can see the steel that is inside the vertebrae.
We are in the process of securing the string of vertebrae on the
armature. In this photo we are about 2/3 of the way on this section
of backbone. |
