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For this second version the skull cap itself is made from harder silicone. This helps a lot with stability and keeps the hair in place much better. Also instead of punching the hair in, I simply glued the wefts to the silicone cap. The result is already better than the first attempt... But I think I may have to make one more in the end because near the crown this method of attaching the hair just doesn't work all that well.   Time to move on for now though.
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The first attempt at creating a hairstyle for Aleysha has been... semi successful I would say. Nr.1 thing that needs to be improved is the way the hair is attached to the silicone. It does not work very well for a thin skull cap like this one. I used hair punching to punch hair bundles into the silicone and they keep falling out. Applying silicone from the inside of the cap as glue does not make much of a difference in terms of improving their hold either. It just creates a huge mess instead! Also...
   On the plus side - she does now have hair! :)
The scalp mould seems to be working alright. It's not perfect but it will do for this prototyping phase.   The cap fits and the embedded magnets hold it in place quite well.  Time for a little cleanup, then test how to do the hair.
Watching SN8 take to the skies and belly flop back to earth sent chills down my spine and literally brought a tear to my eye!  I had not expected so much to go right in this first flight. Amazing! Fingers crossed SN9 can stick the landing.
The printing process for the 3 part scalp mould is complete. It took 3 days on my ender 3. The results aren't perfect but I think it will do for now. At some point I really want to get a resign printer for these moulds.  Magnets are glued into the mould and I have also encapsulated a bunch of them so the casting process can begin. This time I was a little smarter and built a little hole into the side of the mould to give me something to hold on to when trying to open it as that has been really difficult before with other moulds.
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