Gene offers several different types of art based on the body mold process, some of which are custom made to order. "Well, I do custom pieces now. The customers most often commission me to do themselves." Gene can ship something he's already created to Singapore, for instance, or he can have someone come in and do a custom casting for themselves.
I asked Gene what he says to make his models comfortable. "I say 'Lay down'," he laughs, "Get up here." He answers the usual questions, including what to expect during the process. "Usually they ask ahead of time, how long it takes, what I've got to do, so we usually explain that to them. And they're only at the house maybe an hour, so it doesn't take long. And that's posing them, vaseline-in' them, plastering them, washing them, then out the door. And they usually leave the pose up to me, I mean they'll have an idea, but sometimes their idea's something you can't do and still get them out of the plaster. You have to be able to remove them." Carol laughs, "That can be a problem." Does the plaster bend, or is it totally rigid? "It depends on how thick it is. Sometimes it's thick, it's just like a piece of concrete. You can lose somebody in there, that's why they don't recommend you do it. It usually says right on the bag, don't put it on your skin." Do most folks that come in to have their own cast done do the whole torso? "We do more full frontals than anything. That's the most common piece. I probably make five of those to one of anything else. That's from neck to the knees." Even the larger pieces are done in an hour? "Yeah," says Gene. "I've got to have assistants when I do the process, because once I get my hands in the plaster I can't pick up the cheesecloth. The cheescloth's real thin, so I have somebody that separates it, and they hold it there just like a nurse in an operating room. I take a piece at a time as I need it. Sometimes I have two assistants, it depends, as the plaster sets rather quickly so you've got to move rather quickly." Does it get hot as it sets? "Ah, it creates a little heat, not overbearing." While developing his craft, between the earliest development phase and the period of the Katalina series, Gene developed his most elaborate pieces. "We were doing doubles. I do two girls together, we've probably done about five of them, it's a pretty popular piece. They sell well, but it's hard to get two girls together to do it, because I need real small girls, preferably with implants, otherwise it makes a very large mold. So I like small, tiny girls, with implants. It's hard to find two of them that are going to lay around together for--, because that takes quite a bit longer. And it's very difficult to get them out, because all their arms are in there, and they're handcuffed." Handcuffed? "Yeah, in the plaster, wherever you've got an arm in a mold, the plaster will go around the arm. So, when you lift the mold up, their arms and hands are all stuck in there. So I usually have about four people holding that above them, and they're like, 'Ow-ow-ow!', and I have to break them out, sometimes with a hammer even. We have to chip 'em out, an arm at a time, a finger at a time." And with that mold, you can make how many finished pieces? "One." Just one? "One. Yeah, because the mold is rigid, and uh... the (finished) image is rigid, like you know, when you cast it. So you can't get two rigid things apart, because of the undercuts, without breaking it." It isn't always easy to get good video footage of the casting process, especially if it's meant for a family audience, as Channel 10 found out while filming a male model being cast. Gene explains, "Because we were doing his chest, we put gobs of vaseline on him, gobs of it. We got busy doing something else, so he sat there and it kind of got melted. Anyway, we did the mold. So they wanted to film that, with the mold coming off. So I started to pull and it was, 'Oh, oh-oh, oh-h-h-h!' So anyway, when we got to pulling it off him, it was screeeeech, and he went, 'Mother f$%@#$&!' and the video technician went, 'Well, we can't use that one'! So we had to lay it back on him and pretend we were pulling it off again," Gene said with a hearty laugh. He then proceeded to tell a story illustrating why you must shave absolutely everything, front and back, before being cast. That's because no matter whether you had any body hair at all before you went in, it's a certainty you'll have none when you leave. "Oh, that's not unusual. Girls don't shave the hair around the back, you know, so that plaster pulls them right out." To use the mold, Gene has to remove all of the imperfections, including any residual body hairs. "I can get them out of the mold with a torch, going over it lightly." With all the imperfections corrected, all cracking patched, and the surfaces smoothed, the final mold is at last cast. It is then detailed, and carefully painted to the customer's preference. The original mold is now broken and useless, since it can be used only once. This makes each body mold a one-of-a-kind creation. Gene describes the body mold process, custom casting, and how his made-to-order full frontals are created. 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