Dracula untold Build PIC HEAVY

I got alot of positive feed back on the facebook rpf page, so i figure thread time!
This build will be about 90% eva and some clay.

Ill just kinda walk through the build and see if i can cover all the q's on my facebook posts.

Ill begin with one full piece of eva puzzle mat and added about 5 inches on the bottom to get the length i wanted,everything will be glued with contact cement only.
I made a simple scale pattern and traced it over and over again, then i traced over the pattern with an exacto which will later be expanded with a heat gun.

Next i took some time to draw and cut out various pieces thru the armor, this was all pretty time consuming but enjoyable

I began cutting out the detail dragons from 1/8 inch foam

After that i started assembling the front breastplate and adding the fins on the dragon

and with some photo love


Now to begin what i think is the most stand out, The shoulders, While i feel you could absolutly do these in foam , I think id get a more organic look with clay. I started with a simple shoulder bed i made of eva with another homade pattern.

Important to note, oil clay will not stick to the smooth eva , So i put a layer of masking tape for the clay to grab, A simple pattern drawn out, but i ended jus eyballing it and used a compass a few times.

my goal was to get the sculpt close and sand smooth once its cast in plastic. Since the left and right are the same design ill only need one mold.

Now to the other pieces , these took long sessions to do all the carving but came out great, first more patterns , Ive reached my pic limit so i will return with more pic goodness, I have no clue why some of the pics are sideways lol, If you have any questions let me know, and thanks alot for checkin the project out

I watched your video on youtube covering the build.
Very nice work.
I especially like the work you put into the shoulder pads.

Thanks alpha, I have some more pics ive been trying to get off my phone




Some work i had completed on the gauntlets, I added the dragons but still need to add the fins

heres some more pics of the build, these are all single layer pices of foam



I bent these pieces as i heated the cuts ,it seemed to expand them even more, gave it more depth. Then I did the leg armor in the same way.The border edging is just craft foam strips (eva)


More to come!

Got some more update pics, Ill be creating the neck seal and back plate soon, until then enjoy this foam candy lol

Pic update, I have some rough shoulder bells and some test painting goin on here

Great stuff! I dont know how you guys do it!

Thx brother!

Hey there! I was wondering if you could go into more detail about how exactly you did the shoulder pieces with the dragon head out of clay. What type of clay did you use exactly and how did you cast it to actually make the pieces? I'm new to costume making and I'm pretty comfortable with Eva at this point but not sure how to go about making those dragons