Recent content by War Poodle

Re: "God" Skeletor helmet from the end of the 1987 He-Man movie "Masters of the Unive Really nice work so far. One of my childhood favourites.

I didnt go with any rust in the end. I only need to add a few little details and then she's done!

I'm not going to go to heavy with the rust. More like the suggestion of rust. The test piece that I did is way more than what I'm going for. I'm still just playing around with the powers. I want to try and get some oil streaks in there as well. But then I guess it also depends on what story...

Thanks! I've only started mucking about with weathering powders. The ones I'm usiing are iron oxide powders, that people use in pottery, mixed with a little matt varnish. I'll try and get the link for the youtube page I used.

I've started to paint my Pip-Boy. I've been trying to get a chipped enamel effect by using roughly torn masking tape and I've been using some weathering powders to make some rust.

I'm going with a basic static image with a back light. I should be ready to paint in the next couple of days. Woop!

I got my first pull out of the silicone mold today. Using Polytek easyflo 120 resin. The overall shape has came out fine but there are quite a few air bubbles in the fine detail parts. I went over these parts first before the resin started to thicken up. Any Ideas on how I can stop this from...

I managed to demold my Pip-boy from the silicone. I've cut a seam line halfway up the back of the silicone to help with this. Also I got to test fit my cast wrist plate in the origional pip-boy. Fits lovely!

I cast the wrist plate with polyurethane resin thickened with polytek polyfiber II brushed straight into an open mold. I partially recessed the cuff section and the section that fits into the pip-boy on the mold to keep the rounded shape on that section. Im not so bothered about how the inside...

So I went with another brush on mold. My theory on this was that it would use less silicone, I could control the air bubble situation better and it would be quicker. I dont think I've saved any silicone. In fact i think Ive wasted more by having to mix it up in batches to brush on to the mold...

Thanks chaps! I'm at a bit of an impasse at the moment. I cant decide whether to do a brush on silicone glove mold or to make matrix mold for it. The matrix mold is the pro choice but I'm worried about air getting caught in the detailed parts of the model. If I brush it on is there any way of...

I've been doing some more doodling with Bats. Please excuse the fuzzy photo, We haven't had any decent light here for a few months. I'm happy with the grey parts of the suit but I cant the the blacks to look at matt as I wanted. And his face looked 1000 times better without the flesh colour...

The benefit of making your prop out of standard plumbing tube stock is that most standard pipe fittings will attach to it. I've used a 4" pan connector as a stand for my pip-boy to make it easier to make my mold. I'll fit this onto a 90° connector so that it will sit parallel to my bench and I...

I'm going to be getting started again with this project in the next few weeks. I made a glove mold using latex with a fiberglass jacket. Which I kind of knew wasn't going to work as well as I wanted it to do but I gave it a bash anyway. I went much worse than I thought. The shrinkage on the...

to answer my own question. Yes, yes you can. Not very pretty but it works well.