New Project: Klingon Forehead Made From Foam Latex

For my birthday last year I got a kitchen aid. Now, of course, you may wonder what this has to do with mask making. Quite a lot: Because in addition, I bought myself a mini oven. And that means I can now finally get to make foam latex prosthetics.

I've been dreaming about trying foam latex for quite some time. I have already tested silicone, latex and gelatine. But foam latex is, how shall I put it?, the classic. That's why I'm all the more eager to try it.

I hear that foam latex is not very easy to work with and probably not very forgiving. That's why I'm a bit excited and I'm really happy that I can try it out now. To make it less difficult, I decided to make a forehead for a Klingon-human hybrid. Then at least the modeling is not so difficult.

Over the weekend I sat down and drew a few design ideas. I have B'Elanna Torres in mind for a hybrid. She is clearly Klingon, but not so extreme. Take a look at the short video I made of it.

Oh, and keep your fingers crossed that everything works out. For the upcoming Destination Trek I want to improve my Andorian mask and make it out of foam latex, after last year's silicone version was rather mediocre.