Recent content by LostRebel

When I made my shep and femshep I used a dremel with the grinding wheel, but then switched to using router bits and my dremel router base. This worked well for the flatter pieces and gave me nice consistent lines. For the curvier pieces like some of the lines on the femshep bust, I just...

Thank you! The colour paints were either Rustoleum "Painter's Touch" brand or Orchard Supply's house brand. OSH's yellow was a perfect match for Lego yellow. The clear gloss top coat was Rustoleum and a couple coats of that really made it pop.

Switching gears now to the Mass Effect armor, here are some detail photos The elbow attachment, crude but effective Shep's shoulder strap buckle Shep's thigh consisting of foam, a breath mint container hip puck, black "Solid Grip" shelf liner for the shiny panels , and black weatherstrip for...

Some more pictures showing the lego details. hand and plastic wrist cuff with velcro strap layered styrofoam construction for the police cap layered styrofoam and poster paper head inside view of the window screen mouth the elastic velcro suspenders to attach the legs to the body the hair...

I made duct tape mannequins (his and hers) for making my N7 armor but I did not use them for forming the shapes. Stray heat will make the duct tape gooey and for some pieces, the amount of stretching, pulling, and pushing would have overwhelmed any stand unless you lay it on the floor. Most of...

I know I'm mixing two costume builds in one thread but that was more or less the way it was in real life too. Paint one, work on the other, etc. etc. For the lego costumes, I used foam core poster board to make the torso boxes. Four sides and and a top deck for the head to rest on. The "belly"...

To make the datapad, I used 3 layers of 1/8 thick mdf and a translucent orange plastic clipboard. I found a cheap string of white led lights (I hate it when stores start selling xmas stuff in October) that I cannibalized for the switch and lights. I bedded down the plastic in some silicone...

Thanks! I tried to convince my kids to be Star Wars Lego minifigs so that I could combine two of my passions but they opted for surfer girl and policeman. The costumes weren't really practical if your main goal is to race from house to house collecting as much sugar as possible but...

Back in June I stumbled upon the posts of the Mass Effect costumes done by EvilFX and VolpinProps and got the crazy idea to give it a shot. In my youth I loved making scale models and I live vicariously on RPF, enjoying all the excellent scale model and prop work but it seemed like a good time...

Victoria acquitted herself well. I may be imagining this but I could see in her eyes when she says "Oh no you don't! You are not going to skewer me and/or us like this!" The non-apology vid was a fail too. Trying to stand behind the "we like to ask the tough questions" shield did nothing to...