Female Loki Build - WIP - Updated 4/29 - Pic Heavy!

Welcome and good luck,
so far it's looking good.

Looking forward to see more work.

great looking sculpt. Can't wait to see more.
greets,

Looks good

Thanks so much for the positive responses :]

Yesterday afternoon and evening I was able to sculpt up the bracers! Just editing the photos I realized i forgot one small detail on them, but I like how they look currently so i may not add it.. hmmm. we'll see. :P

From one female Loki to another... welcome aboard the mischief train! Glad to hear you've started your own thread.

Love your sculpting work thus far, especially the bracers. Best of luck and I'll keep hopping by!

That looks good, and in case you didn't know, Loki became female in the comics.

Hey Jaina! Thanks for the comment and encouragement :] Will definitely be more in touch with you as this progresses

Apocodaddy said:

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That looks good, and in case you didn't know, Loki became female in the comics.

Thanks Apoc :] I did some research about Loki in the comics because after seeing Thor i was considering doing the comic Lady Loki or Lady Sif getup, because i loooove scale maille! However, I don't like the fur cloak, nor do I like the more angular horns of the comic female version. I was torn about what to do until I saw the Avengers, and loved both the film and the costumes so much that I knew that was the version I wanted to work with :] Just a few adjustments to make it more female friendly, but keeping with the overall look and feel of it. Sculpting altered pieces starts today! Wheee!

Eldritch Arts said:

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Hey Jaina! Thanks for the comment and encouragement :] Will definitely be more in touch with you as this progresses

Thanks Apoc :] I did some research about Loki in the comics because after seeing Thor i was considering doing the comic Lady Loki or Lady Sif getup, because i loooove scale maille! However, I don't like the fur cloak, nor do I like the more angular horns of the comic female version. I was torn about what to do until I saw the Avengers, and loved both the film and the costumes so much that I knew that was the version I wanted to work with :] Just a few adjustments to make it more female friendly, but keeping with the overall look and feel of it. Sculpting altered pieces starts today! Wheee!

Most welcome gal, and I'm looking forwards to it.

I fully agree about Lady Loki/Lady Sif with the fur and all. While I like the design overall w/Loki being a wild beauty, it's not for me. I love the sleek look that Loki bears in the movie!verse much more, and look forwards to sporting it with a few feminine twists.

Last night I sculpted the necklace - which is the first costume part that I'm modifying to make it more fitting to the female form. In the movie it looks like he has a solid piece of armour covering his upper chest - black with that gold design across the center of it. I am getting rid of the large black piece and doing the gold design instead as a large necklace. That way it can be worn over a shirt, or just my chest when i'm limiting the layers. I shaped it with curves so that it will fit fairly snugly to my form. Once this upcoming event is over I will probably toy around with making another version of it that is more film accurate and less shaped to the body. Anyways, I'm pretty excited about it :]

The first pic is the design in paper and where i want it to rest when worn. 2nd is a regular view, and 3rd shows the curves so it will lay better against the chest.

You must have a background in art.

the look great i can't wait to the final

Like what you're doing to the necklace, that's pretty much what I'm doing w/my femme!Loki as well. And true, it's very versatile as you can wear it over the black stuff or just over bare skin depending on which side of the Bifrost you wake up on that morning.

Is it just me, or do we have more women doing Loki costumes than men on the forum? Hahaha!

Looking good.

Satxer said:

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Is it just me, or do we have more women doing Loki costumes than men on the forum? Hahaha!

Looking good.

It's true, it's really true. The ladies love Loki, what can I say?

Jaina said:

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It's true, it's really true. The ladies love Loki, what can I say?

Oh yeah.
Technically, I'm making the costume for my husband ... I'm not sure what side that puts me on here.

That's awesome to see more Ladies playing Loki I love it!

I have been working straight on my costume since I last posted, with a huge amount of help from my husband. However we've had a lot of setbacks time-wise and frustration-wise with the fiberglass and resin casting process, especially with the horns and lower helmet. The horns we eventually got to work, with the help of a ton of bondo, but the lower helm is being a pain in the butt!!! I'm going to try to cast it one more time with the last of my resin, but if that doesn't work, the costume may be a bust, at least for the event I was planning to go to - ConnectiCon, which is on saturday. :[ LAME!

But, hopefully the stars will align and i can somehow make it work and we'll see how it goes from there. Will be uploading pictures tonight when I can no longer sand things :P

Update Part 1 - Lower Helm and Horns!

I didn't have time to update this or any site with pics as it was happening - i barely ate or slept the last week in order to get this project done enough, phew! Today I finally have time, so I will update with pics starting earlier and ending with me at the Con :] Enjoy!

Lower helm sculpting







First quick cast of upper helm to help with horn shaping



Nice pic of it testing the hammered gold paint i got :]



Bent steel bars around trees to get them in the correct shape to use for the base of the horns to put clay around. Had a hell of a time getting them to sit correctly with the helm tho lol.



First stage of Horn shaping



Smoothing the horns out :]





Helm, Horns, bracers and necklace in silicone rubber to make molds!

Update Part 2 - Scepter

The long staff/scepter that Loki has I was lucky enough to get my husband to make for me :] While i've been busy sculpting all the pieces for the helm, necklace, and bracers, he's been carving the scepter out of wood and plastic. He even wired in a LED light with a switch into the "gem" so it lights up. MOST excellent :] Here are some pics of the staff midway through - the blade is nearing completion, but the carving and painting of the shaft still to be done. Will have to take more pics of the updated Scepter tomorrow :]





with the light on...

great work there!

Update Part 3 - Casting and Painting Necklace and Bracers

Three days before the con I begin the casting of my pieces. The necklace and bracers turn out pretty good as they are much simpler pieces than the horned helm. There is minimal air bubbles and a pretty even thickness so they require much less effort, phew. Good way to start out anyways!

Necklace and bracers cast in fiberglass resin with edges sanded down







Primed



Maybe i'm giving away secrets by posting these progression photos, but without reading the processes of other crafters before me i couldn't have gotten this far, so perhaps my pics and descriptions will help others as well :]

Bracers painted with hammered gold spray paint



Bracer on the left hand painted with a bright shiny gold paint using dry brush technique to accentuate both the texture and the metallic feel and colour of the piece. Compare to bracer on right looking much flatter with only the hammered gold and shading in creases.



Both bracers finished



Necklace with hammered gold (before low lights and high lights are hand painted on)

Update Part 4 - The Helmet

And finally, the most important piece, and the thing that drove me nearly insane and sapped up all my time, the Helm. This was intended to be a 2 part helm where the top with the horns would fit into the bottom part, so that being able to take it apart this way it could be shaped closer to the head and not have to allow for the whole head fitting through the bottom. However I ran out of time to make this work, so I ended up epoxying and bondoing the pieces together. The result is a bit of a squeeze to get on, seeing as i have a huge head, and i sculpted the lower helm to narrow down at the bottom, but once on, it fits wonderfully!

I sanded it for hours, but i think to have it at my satisfaction it would require at least 2 more good days of sanding to have it at the smoothness and texture i want it to be. Again, ran out of time getting it together for last saturday, so i got it to a "good enough" state and seeing as i had only an hour of daylight left at that point, went and painted it from there!

Stopped sanding and brought it outside to paint



Primed



With the hammered gold in the evening light



With a flash



Inside in the shop light



Painting in the low lights



Painting in the high lights



More Close up

Looks totally awesome! Great job! How heavy are the horns though, are they solid?

drknotter said:

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Looks totally awesome! Great job! How heavy are the horns though, are they solid?

Hey thanks so much! the horns are actually fairly light! They are hollow, though I did do 2 thick layers of fiberglass resin on them so they'd be nice and sturdy. But the whole helm is surprisingly light - I wore it for 10+ hours straight at ConnectiCon this past weekend! I didn't even have a sore neck afterwards or anything :P

Though I did show the helm to a friend of mine who works in aviation who told me about a more expensive but awesome kind of fiberglass weave thing that is super strong but extremely light especially for planes, so when i find out more info on that i might try that out for my next casting for a super light weight version :]

Hey thanks so much! the horns are actually fairly light! They are hollow, though I did do 2 thick layers of fiberglass resin on them so they'd be nice and sturdy. But the whole helm is surprisingly light - I wore it for 10+ hours straight at ConnectiCon this past weekend! I didn't even have a sore neck afterwards or anything :P

Though I did show the helm to a friend of mine who works in aviation who told me about a more expensive but awesome kind of fiberglass weave thing that is super strong but extremely light especially for planes, so when i find out more info on that i might try that out for my next casting for a super light weight version :]

Cool! If I may ask though, how did you get them hollow? Were your molds in two pieces for each horn, and then you stuck the hollow pieces together? It just seems like it'd be difficult to make them hollow when they're so thin and curved. Just curious about your technique. And again, fantastic job!