Urdnot Wrex: FINISHED. Photos on Pg 3

I've added roughly 12 pounds of clay... and the terrible part? I can barely see where it went.

Finished Wrex's spikey, spikey headplate and the back of his head today. Also added a much longer, more pronounced throat. I think I'll be able to wrap him up in time.

And I'm gonna call it done at this point. He could still use a few more wrinkles and battle damage, and I may go back and fiddle a bit before I cast, but I'm really happy with how he looks.

My big boy:


He's HUGE:


A few more angles:

Voting is now open!

2012-04 - Sculpting Contest - the RPF Gallery

Wow. All the entries I've seen so far are great, but this one is definitely my favorite.

Thank you! He's adorable in my eyes... krogan bro for life. #downwiththegenophage

I thought I would drop the reference photos I was using into this thread, as this is not an original design.







When I start the armor I'll cross-reference this post (it'll be his set from ME3, thank GOD they went back to red!)

Started the mold for Wrex this weekend! Thought it would be a quickish process (haaaa), and also horribly underestimated how much silicone this would use. Went through almost half of this gallon of Rebound 25.

What does everyone else use for mixing silicone? My hand cramped up SO many times during this which made it even slower.

Print coat:


Final coat:


It will be a one-piece glove mold (the back is pretty open, so it should be easy out) and a two-part mothermold. I'll be working on the mothermold this week/weekend.

Wrex mostly survived the casting!



But more importantly I have a mold and the silicone looks really good. Details were picked up nicely all around.




That ruler is 24", Wrex is about 22" high.

Here's some detail shots taken on inside of the glove mold:





The only place where the silicone is a bit thin is on the VERY inside of his mouth, which will be cut open/jury rigged so I can see through it anyway. I'm as always delighted with how the Rebound 25 picked up detail.

looking great! very nice sculpting, would love to have enough time to sculpt a krogan of my own :P

Awesome work! Glad to see your sharing the molding process, I'm attempting the same process.

may i ask why you used a silicone mold instead of a resin one? or are you casting with a hard medium?

Do you mean silicone instead of plaster?

Wrex has some pretty severe undercuts that would have made a plaster mold very difficult to use and I felt a silicone glovemold would be the best way to go. I'm going to be casting in FlexFoamIt! (either 5 or 10).

I figured the cast would be in silicone or latex, so i was thinking to myself "why in silicone instead of a fiberglass mold?" But if you are doing it in any kind of self skinning foam, silicone is the way to go. Nice job by the way

I love Wrex! He's definately one of my favorites from Mass Effect. Great job!

I honestly preferred grunt to Wrex, but then again, neither compare to tali

But I already made Tali. And ALWAYS preferred Wrex

Did you get the legs and feet to work?

I do not understand the question. They were my legs and feet so presumably they worked

Tali has a very unique leg and foot structure, i was asking if you got it to work, or just didn't bother, since you would have to make some unique stilts

I don't want to hijack my own thread with Tali talk. But yes, the costume was complete. I created boots by adapting an existing pair of boots with a black heel and building toes of fiberglass on the front. I was never completely happy with them.

If you're truly interested in the foot structure, then you should talk to Jennifer (http://idleambition.com/), who made some amazing heels for her Tali by combining two boots into one. They did not look comfortable.

That is SOO wicked :0). Very inspiring too, trying to bully a friend of mine into being Grunt.

Didn't mean to hijack, just curious. I have no aspirations to do any cross dressing cosplay, i'm just anal about details is all. well, there is always rocky horror :P

Wow! It looks so great! The detail is top notch.

Thanks for the comments guys I'm picking up Flex Foam-It X on Friday and will have a cast of this boy to geek over this weekend.

I've always in the past done painting as a post-casting event, but this time I want to try pigmenting the foam. Does anyone have a lot of experience with the So-Strong pigment that they'd like to share? I'm wondering how much I will need, and if the sample-pack is the direction to go. Wrex is mostly yellowish-brown.