See? I TOLD YOU they stuck way up!
I think the lighter spots were colder / wetter. No matter, paint covers a multitude of sins.
Now the spikes around the perimeter have been made and attached and papered on. Something to note here, there are some tinier strips placed on the surface, not near the spikes on the edge. These are little patches that cover rougher spots. I now know that the big strips, while wet, still have some stiffness when twisted over the compound curves of this complex shape. I learned mid-mask that one way to deal with this is to use little patches like this instead of big long strips. One really brilliant idea was to use many small triangles over a surface like this! That's really smart. Of course, you need enough base surface to hold the triangles but they can be tiled with practically no bending and buckling. Noted for future reference!
Here's a nice little closeup of the spikes on the edge. I started out with a long narrow v of wire that I wound a wad of paper around in the rough size and shape of the spikes. Then I "finished" the shape with masking tape. Then I used the long protruding ends of the v to punch through and wind around the triple wire that comprised the rim of the mask. I say "I" and that's true. For the first one. SonofV did the other nine.
Once they were all wired in place, they got papered on.
Ok. This was actual fire. I'm guilty of being impatient and under the gun timewise. I wanted to try to cycle two layers in one day. Remember the oversize problem with the bulgy eyes? Yeah.... the spikes... they exacerbated this problem raising the damn mask even higher since I had to put it in at an angle. And.. I might have had a problem with the oven because I had cooked in it this same day. It was already hot, too hot, obviously. I'd set it (back down) to about 250 degrees, but it was still blazing from the cookies I'd made earlier. Just stupid. Lucky, but stupid. Fortunately all the fire was on the inside, and didn't pierce the outer surface except in one tiny place. Where the left eyehole would be. Definitely lucky.
