Bronze sculpture: The process from 3D printing to Bronze casting
As a leading art foundries in China, we explores combing new tech with traditional bronze casting technique. Below is a bronze sculpture we cast for artist Ken Sealey.The sculpture is 50 cm tall. The artist sends us digital model of the sculpture. We use 3D printing tech to print it out first and then make rubber mold and cast bronze. Below is a short documentation on how we make it. Step 1 : Digital modeling Step 2 : 3D Printing Step 3: Molding & Bronze casting Step 4: Finishing & Patina Feel free to email us if you have any question or you need a quote for your own project. Or just click the button to call us FREE. [skype-status skype_id=”tanyfoundry” user_name=”Tany Foundry...
Read MoreCase Study: Bronze Bull
Tany Foundry just cast a 12.5 feet long bronze bull. Here is the process how we make it. Step One: Scanning maquette and generate 3D model. Step Two: Sculpture enlargement. We enlarge the sculpture to 12.5 feet long. Step Three: Sand molding and bronze casting. We sections the pattern for bronze casting and assembly it bull later. The material we use is silicon bronze Everdur. Step Four: Finishing and patina. Our artisans carefully grind and sand the welding seam, sand blast and do patina on bronze. Click the image below for estimate of your own sculpture project. We will get back to you within 12...
Read MoreGold Leafing Bronze sculpture
Tany Foundry has been exploring the best practice on gold leafing bronze sculpture for 30 years. Here is one of our recent case. The sculpture is a 410MM diameter Medusa sculpture. Here is a brief documentation on how we make it. Step One: Digital modeling. There are many popular PC software for digital modeling, like Zbrush, Maya, Rhino etc. Step 2: 3D printing Step 3: silicon rubber molding & Wax work Step 4: Bronze casting, Gold leafing. We cast the sculpture with silicon bronze and gold leafing it with 24K gold. Feel free to contact us know if you have any...
Read MoreMirror Polished Stainless steel Sculpture
Mirror polished Stainless steel sculpture features highly reflective and long lasting finishing. If done well, the visual impact is stunning. It is also known that mirror polishing is not an easy job. Polishing is time consuming and requires much time and effort to do. The artisan has to be very experienced to make sure the work is done properly. Here is polished stainless steel sculpture Tany Foundry fabricated. The sculpture is 6.5 feet tall, It is made with stainless steel grade 316. The workflow: Maquette – jig building – stainless steel cladding – finishing – mirror polishing. The sculpture is 7 feet tall. We build a jig based on the maquette. The scale of jig is strictly following the maquette. Then we fabricate the stainless steel based on the jig we just built. We use stainless steel grade 316 for fabrication. The sheet is carefully cut, bent and welt to make sure they fit with the jig perfectly. The jig is removed from stainless steel cladding. We measure every line of the sculpture to make sure the size is correct. I am testing the polishing quality of the sculpture. This is final work of the sculpture. We’d like to hear your comments. Feel free to let me know if you have any technical question. We will assist you technically or make a quote for your own project. Please contact...
Read MoreHow It Is Made Series: Larger than Life Size Soldier
Tany Foundry just accomplish a larger than life size sculpture. Here is a short description how we make it. Sculpture profile: Solider: 1.5 times larger life size figure Material: Bronze Method: Sand casting Bronze casting by Tany Foundry Step One: Digital scanning. The digital file is gained by scanning a monumental soldier sculpture with a portable 3D scanner. Step Two: CNC Milling and Finishing Step Three: Sand Molding; bronze casting Feel free to contact us if you have any question on how we cast this sculpture in bronze or you need a bidding for your own...
Read MoreSnake: A Sculpture Worth Experiencing
Some sculptures are for viewing. You can see its beautiful with your eyes. Some sculptures are for touching. The gentle touch and feeling of the sculpture give the audience great pleasure. There is another type sculpture. It is for your experiencing. And this Snake sculpture, by Yong Ping Huang, is such a sculpture, which allows you to walk through its inside and view it from different perspective. The most interesting part of the sculpture lays in its interaction between its surrounding: sea. The sculpture is installed coast along Nantes, France: which is well known for its beautiful view. When the tide arises, the snake would be immersion under sea level and emerge itself after the the tide retreat. The sculpture is 490 feet long total. Its structure is made up of two major components: head and body. Its head is giant, with its mouth widely open, showing the aggressive nature of a snake. Its body is made up from numerous bone structure. The body layout in a beautiful and long curve along the costal. This make viewing it from different perspective a very pleasant experience. Below is a brief description on how Tany Foundry casting this monumental sculpture in aluminum. Step 1: Sculpture Enlargement Artist creates a maquette We enlarge the sculpture to the desired size with CNC Milling technique. Step 2: Sand Modeling This sculpture is made with sand casting. From the technical perspective, one of the major difficulties is to make the size of the sculpture accurate because the bones have to be fit perfect with eath other. Otherwise, the shape would be distort and its artistic effect would fail. Sand modeling is the key step to make all these right at the first place. Step 3: Aluminum casting Since this sculpture is to be installed along coast, the aluminum alloy has to be of high corrosion resistance performance. We use A-G3T to fulfill this purpose. It works excellently even in the most hash environment: sea. Aluminum is capable of forming a very thin layer of oxidation wrapping its surface, which is can prevent further corrosion. Step 4: Chasing and Finishing One of the major reason that aluminum, as a material for sculpture, is not so often used like bronze is that it is very difficult to do welding. The aluminum oxidation will make the welding rods hard to perform. Only very experienced welders are able to make really high quality welding. We spent numerous hours on aluminum welding and finishing. Book has its own destiny. So is sculpture. Will the snake become an icon like the Cloud Gate in Chicago, time will tell. If you have any technical question about bronze casting or aluminum casting or need a free quote for your own project. Please contact us. ...
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