Yeah, that's kind of the natural ground condition around here in the first place.  When it's been so dry for so long, you also have a lot of the natural plants that would help hold the soil together and slow down the runoff so it had time to soak in that's gone dormant or died off, which just makes it even worse.

Plus, we're literally right at the base of the mountains, so the storm dumps gobs of water up there and then it runs downhill...low channels, river beds, etc, where runoff would naturally collect get filled up in a big hurry with a heavy storm.

I haven't heard about any floods up here...but a buddy of mine bought a house a couple of hours south of here (actually, more like three or four hours, I think...Cedar City, if you want to look it up on a map).  His neighborhood got slammed by a huge thunderstorm a few days ago and his basement turned out to have a leak in the wall somewhere, so he's torn up a bunch of his basement carpet to deal with that...

But the place he was thinking about buying, before he saw the one he did buy, was in a nearby town that got slammed with a flash flood today.  So, he's glad he made that choice...I mean, the place he was looking at was up on a hill slightly, so it's probably okay...but it was also a pre-fabricated home, so it doesn't have the sort of foundation and structural integrity that a 'real' house has.

I'm ancient!!! Or at least, today is my 62nd birthday :)

Hey all, I’m back from Alton Towers so I’ll look at having a read and catch up with my characters in between everything else.

Also happy birthday Henry!

Very Nice..Happy B-day!

 Harry, your characters are in the   Hall , people are moving to condos , or where ever.

Happy birthday!

Thank you, Admiral, Harry & Zob.

Happy birfday!

Thanks, Nick.

Hack that was straight savage bravo.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/att.../20210802_092821.jpg Picked this up today for the game room Hack and it reminded me of some of the pilots.

That's neat..i get catalogs  from 'Historic Avation', i have a few WWI  aircraft  above  me  along with  Mass effect figures ..Fallout Bobbles  and   a few dozen Funko Pops fro when  the kids   got me 'loot Crate'

 in the  one scetion they have  alot of those style  'nose art' signs  that Gas stations  and  Warbonds used...some a bit more 'detailed' I never  got any of them yet..
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 Happy Birthday Henry and Mila?
 Welcome back Harry hope you had a great time.

for the Marks..look in loads  out.. I will edit in the   characters going after them

Ill be following Shadows lead.

 Whoever needs muscle got Meari and a Sanri here if Frakas can join?

So, I found out tonight what happens when you try and mix up foam latex in high humidity...

The last ingredient you add to the mix is a gelling agent, that keeps the foam from collapsing in the mold.  My go-to source for foam closed up shop because of Covid...and while he's planning to reopen, he won't be open in time for this project.  The foam that I had on hand has been sitting for a couple of years, so it doesn't mix up as well as it should.  So, I was trying a new foam brand...did pretty well on the mix, added the gel, mixed it as instructed...

You're supposed to have about 10-15 minutes after mixing before it gels.  Well, apparently, when it's 75% humidity, that's more like 10-15 seconds...the whole batch gelled in the mixing bowl.

Turn around and try again tomorrow, I guess.  The good news is, I like the consistency of the gelled foam.  Not sure how it will be when cured, but it feels like it will be more durable.

Still...that was an hour experiment that I really needed to have turn out.  The show these masks are for opens next week...they've got an old mask I made they're using for rehearsals, but it's a bit beat up around the edges.

Guess I'll just have to try it again tomorrow  and see what we can do.

Round Two went much better...finished mixing, poured into the mold, even had time to flow it around the mold and get a good slush coat before I put the face cast on and pinched it down tight...

And then it gelled almost immediately after, which is what I wanted, since I don't have a ton of time to sit and wait for it to set up.

We'll find out, in about three hours, how it turned out...two-plus hours to cure in the oven, plus some cool-down time for the molds.

Then, regardless of how it turned out, I've gotta turn around and do it all over again, since I need two of the masks.

 My oldest Granddaughter would love to  live near you and  learn all this  stuff, she hasn't done it lately m but she made some pretty need..'wounds'

 she got  started on that seeing some on my Younger Daughter's    'Zombie  wounds   with 'bones' and such she would make for halloween, while she did facepainting.

There's actually a huge amount of makeup talent in this area...there are four or five massive haunted houses that work with Hollywood-quality prosthetic artists, and a lot more makeup artists and body-painters who don't work much with prosthetics.  I've kind of carved my own little niche...my prosthetic work isn't Hollywood-grade, but it works great for stage and I do it at a price that local theaters can actually afford.

So, what I got out would have been a very usable prosthetic...but might be a bit flimsy for what I'm going after.  The objective, when doing prosthetics, is to press the mold and face-cast together as cleanly and tight as possible, so you end up with paper-thin sections on product around the built-up prosthetic areas.  Those are easy to glue down and conceal...but when you're making a re-usable mask, stuff like that is always going to be the first place that tears.

Got release agent on the molds, mixed up another batch, and the molds are back in the oven...not pressed together as hard this time.

In the past, I've worked with a 2-part, polyurethane foam...makes great, durable pieces, but it's a royal mess and you've gotta have a dropcloth over your entire work area, because that crap sticks to EVERYTHING.  If I spill foam latex out of a mold (and I do, almost every time, because my batch size is larger than the mold volume), I just let it finish gelling and it peels right off.  And the prosthetics are more comfortable to wear...

If getting color correct wasn't such a pain, I'd go with silicone for masks...but the only thing that sticks to silicone well is more silicone.  And I don't have the space, time, or energy to start playing around with silicon-based mask paints.

Hi guys just to let you know I’m going to be off again, this time to my brother’s wedding (I’ve got to give a Best Man’s speech, so wish me luck with that. :/ ) so my posting is liable to be limited or nonexistent till Friday. Both my characters are just going to enjoy the party on the roof and let everyone else get on with what they need to get on with.

sorry rl caught me and beat me up. happens.  henry - happy belated birthday

have  fun...if you have  trouble you can give the  "ups and downs' in bed  line a shot.

just getting into the swing at the new job and dealing with an injured cat.  Plus my personal finances after all the crap thats happened to me over the year.  getting my shit together is tedious.  lol

ducks don't always go in a row..choice what will be best in the long run.