We have one cowl mold and have decided to make the most out of it.
Just wanted to share our progress in turning our Begins cowl into a TDK cowl.
Step one - slush plastic into the top half of the mold.
Step two - struggle like hell to remove it from the mold
Gonna sculpt in the flared nostrils and make a few other minor adjustments. Also going to scratch build a neck. Looking for good reference if anyone has any.
Hi kevin,
I dont know if it could help but you have some screenshots of the screen used version on this website :
Batman Unmasked Image Gallery - Screen used prop pics
Check for page 4,5 and 6...
Yeah those have been around forever not very good ref as it's stuffed and all odd shaped.wrcromu said:
Hi kevin,
I dont know if it could help but you have some screenshots of the screen used version on this website :
Batman Unmasked Image Gallery - Screen used prop pics
Check for page 4,5 and 6...
Maybe these one ?
Those are great, thanks!
Bud, shot a couple pics to your email.
Thanks Ken.
Bit of an update. Nose flares sculpted on and jaw on one side ground down to what we felt looked right. Then some color to see where we're at. Pretty happy so far. Now to make the other side match.
I have to say that is reeeally coming along nicely. Great job.
Indeed... very nice
Fantastic work guys, you are really nailing the Dark Knight look
Oh man. I can't wait for this to be done. If the neck pieces come out nice I'm doing everything I can to get one of these. *crosses fingers new job works out*
Thanks everyone. Clinton has been working on it off and on when he has a few minutes between helmets and/or paint drying.
Very nice. Just PMed you.
I don't know if this is of any help with the back neck area
EDIT: Nevermind, I think this is of an early version. Doesn't look like the movie one.
Finally got the cowl portion of this finished of tonight. Going back out to work on the neck now and tomorrow night so hope to mold on Friday-Saturday.
Looks fantastic! Can't wait to see your work on the neck.
Another great cowl! This looks awesome. Do you have any plans to make a smaller one like you did with the Begins cowl?
Maybe. We'll see how this one fits first. It's quite a process to do a shrunk version.Celtic007 said:
Thanks guys.
Yeah like Kev said it's a fair amount of work to shrink the cowl, but If I want one I have to. My head is just too small for the reg cowls. It might not be right away as I'm pretty busy with other projects as well.
Nice work, guys. I was just wondering, if the TDK cowl has a smaller mouth opening than the Begins cowl. It always looked to me that way.
I really don't like the TDK cowl (for many reasons) but this certainly is one of the best we've seen so far. The smooth and dull texture looks spot on!
After staring at both Begins and TDK ref images for the last few months I can say the TDK is actually maybe just a touch bigger if anything. It just sits a little different because it has no neck attached to it. It may also look a little smaller because Bale's face seems a little fatter from Begins. This is just MO from looking at high rez images of hese cowls for too long.Bullitt said:
And here is a few pics of the neck fitted to the cowl. It is a styrene build so once molded I tried to shape it proper to sit with the cowl and it just doesn't sit quite right, it will once cast in rubber.
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Never fail to impress with these cowls.
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wow.