Now that the plaster mold is mostly dry after two days in front of two box fans on “high” I decided to try pressing the first clay in it. It took about a half hour to carefully press the clay in, and it took about 35# of clay. I added the interior webbing that all of the architectural terracotta originals my work is based on- have for structural stength and integrity. My pieces don’t need the strength so much since they are not load bearing elements meant to support three stories of brickwork above them, so the webbing and wall thickness is between 5/8″ and 1″ thick, while the antique…