No secret I'm a Stargate Movie nut.
Here is a project that I have been sitting on for a couple of years.
As with the RA Pendent, I have always wanted was the mask, of either HORUS or ANUBIS. For those of you who don't know, it's the same masks. Only the Top Part, paint scheme and the earrings" are different for each character.
There have been some really AMAZING attempts at reproducing this thing, each one unique and impressive. However, there is nothing like having the real thing. Well, production castings of it anyway!
Over the years, I have been lucky to acquire different parts of the costume. A good friend of mine who worked on the film, had castings from production of the mask, gun, and a few other items.
He was nice enough to loan what he didnt sell to me, so we could complete the mask for each of us.
I bought a damaged mask section from PROP WORX, which was one of the sections I was missing. It will take some work, but its definitely salvageable. Still, we needed the face plate of the mask. So close, and yet so far.
Then, I was asked if I could help repair one of the movie hero masks. Nothing extensive, but I happily jumped at the chance. I was given permission by the owner, and eventually new owner of the mask to mold what I needed.
Which were these parts:
and the center section shown below.
I was amazed at the condition the mask was in after all these years.
It needed little work. I repaired the left broken ear hanging, and re-glued down some of the plating, and beefed up the puny support the mask now resides on. I also did some trouble shooting, to figure out what the wiring went to on the inside, as this particular mask still has all the Servos and electronics inside of it.
This is how the mask looked when I got it, no big change, its just missing the left earring.
Now for my stuff. The lower section I had, did not have an interior, so I did a quick brush up, made a casting attached it to the section I had.
Here is a shot in progress:
and how it looks now:
I should have taken pics of how damaged it was, here you see the individual snap molds I made off the real mask, to repair the production casting I had. Because it had been kicked around a garage since 1994, you can imagine the shape it was in.
I took SILPAKs Fast SetPutty, and would mold the spot from the real one that was damaged on the casting. I filled the mold with bondo/ fiberglassing resin and STAMPED the detail back in. Overall, I was happy with the results.
Here is the back now. I still have some work to do on it.
Here is most of the parts, I have smaller detail stuff and molds in a box someplace.
The two heads, one is a FIBERGLASS test, in really bad shape. The other is a foam stunt head.
I did not mold the Original, because it's plated metal. I was afraid that the PAINT would come off, so I only molded the face section, and did so VERY carefully wearing DEPENDS the whole time I was doing so.
;-)
Luckily, the large inside section was just painted fiberglass and had not been plated.
It molded with no problems.
I will keep posting picture, but the intent is to restore the movie mask, and restore the production castings for the current owner. For payment, I get to create a mask ready for plating so I can own my very own HORUS. I plan making a complete ANUBIS one of these days also, as I have most of the costume parts for him already. It's slow going as I work on him while I wait for spaceship castings to cook in the autoclave. Not intending to sell parts, kits or castings. Just too difficult and really not worth the effort, and I'm doing a restoration more than anything else.
Here is HORUS the day he left with his repaired ear.
Thanks for taking a peek.
Stay tuned!
Frank
Brundelfly
Here is a project that I have been sitting on for a couple of years.
As with the RA Pendent, I have always wanted was the mask, of either HORUS or ANUBIS. For those of you who don't know, it's the same masks. Only the Top Part, paint scheme and the earrings" are different for each character.
There have been some really AMAZING attempts at reproducing this thing, each one unique and impressive. However, there is nothing like having the real thing. Well, production castings of it anyway!
Over the years, I have been lucky to acquire different parts of the costume. A good friend of mine who worked on the film, had castings from production of the mask, gun, and a few other items.
He was nice enough to loan what he didnt sell to me, so we could complete the mask for each of us.
I bought a damaged mask section from PROP WORX, which was one of the sections I was missing. It will take some work, but its definitely salvageable. Still, we needed the face plate of the mask. So close, and yet so far.
Then, I was asked if I could help repair one of the movie hero masks. Nothing extensive, but I happily jumped at the chance. I was given permission by the owner, and eventually new owner of the mask to mold what I needed.
Which were these parts:
and the center section shown below.
I was amazed at the condition the mask was in after all these years.
It needed little work. I repaired the left broken ear hanging, and re-glued down some of the plating, and beefed up the puny support the mask now resides on. I also did some trouble shooting, to figure out what the wiring went to on the inside, as this particular mask still has all the Servos and electronics inside of it.
This is how the mask looked when I got it, no big change, its just missing the left earring.
Now for my stuff. The lower section I had, did not have an interior, so I did a quick brush up, made a casting attached it to the section I had.
Here is a shot in progress:
and how it looks now:
I should have taken pics of how damaged it was, here you see the individual snap molds I made off the real mask, to repair the production casting I had. Because it had been kicked around a garage since 1994, you can imagine the shape it was in.
I took SILPAKs Fast SetPutty, and would mold the spot from the real one that was damaged on the casting. I filled the mold with bondo/ fiberglassing resin and STAMPED the detail back in. Overall, I was happy with the results.
Here is the back now. I still have some work to do on it.
Here is most of the parts, I have smaller detail stuff and molds in a box someplace.
The two heads, one is a FIBERGLASS test, in really bad shape. The other is a foam stunt head.
I did not mold the Original, because it's plated metal. I was afraid that the PAINT would come off, so I only molded the face section, and did so VERY carefully wearing DEPENDS the whole time I was doing so.
;-)
Luckily, the large inside section was just painted fiberglass and had not been plated.
It molded with no problems.
I will keep posting picture, but the intent is to restore the movie mask, and restore the production castings for the current owner. For payment, I get to create a mask ready for plating so I can own my very own HORUS. I plan making a complete ANUBIS one of these days also, as I have most of the costume parts for him already. It's slow going as I work on him while I wait for spaceship castings to cook in the autoclave. Not intending to sell parts, kits or castings. Just too difficult and really not worth the effort, and I'm doing a restoration more than anything else.
Here is HORUS the day he left with his repaired ear.
Thanks for taking a peek.
Stay tuned!
Frank
Brundelfly
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