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<p>[QUOTE="kristiaan, post: 334695, member: 654"]Hey Rastella, I do so asap,it has been 3 PC crashes and many years ago. But most pictures must have been saved, somewhere....only need to go thru all my USB stick's laying around. </p><p><br /></p><p>Concrete is meant to stay on the outside, but with the imperfections I can see, water and frost could damage them. If you have dry winters there is not problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know all about them being heavy when they are large. When making them they need to be handled lots of time. I used to made lions at more or less they real size to put in front of gates and porches. </p><p>A trick is to make hollow statues but this is quiet difficult when using concrete. You need a fast drying concrete that looks more like a paste, and only fluid concrete reaches for every detail in a mould/ die.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is hard to date concrete by the looks of it, if you just have only concrete.</p><p>If this is part of something else like a building or so, you could judge it by the other elements being around. But not if you just have a piece of concrete, even if it is a nice statue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been studying concrete and working with it for many years, always trying to improve things regarding my casts. At one time I got a little book of a late medieval apprentice (it was republished!) who kept notes of recipes and tricks he have seen or learned from the master- artists he worked for. Everything I learned or even things I thought to have improved, where written in that little book more then 300 years ago....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kristiaan, post: 334695, member: 654"]Hey Rastella, I do so asap,it has been 3 PC crashes and many years ago. But most pictures must have been saved, somewhere....only need to go thru all my USB stick's laying around. Concrete is meant to stay on the outside, but with the imperfections I can see, water and frost could damage them. If you have dry winters there is not problem. I know all about them being heavy when they are large. When making them they need to be handled lots of time. I used to made lions at more or less they real size to put in front of gates and porches. A trick is to make hollow statues but this is quiet difficult when using concrete. You need a fast drying concrete that looks more like a paste, and only fluid concrete reaches for every detail in a mould/ die. It is hard to date concrete by the looks of it, if you just have only concrete. If this is part of something else like a building or so, you could judge it by the other elements being around. But not if you just have a piece of concrete, even if it is a nice statue. I have been studying concrete and working with it for many years, always trying to improve things regarding my casts. At one time I got a little book of a late medieval apprentice (it was republished!) who kept notes of recipes and tricks he have seen or learned from the master- artists he worked for. Everything I learned or even things I thought to have improved, where written in that little book more then 300 years ago....[/QUOTE]
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