Vickibrownies
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Hi,
I'm new here, a friend suggested I sign up and look about get a little help on a project I'm starting.
I've had a look through, seen some utterly amazing work that I can't possibly match, but certainly can aspire to and got a whole load of information. Though, there are still some random questions I'm left with and all that.
So, if you will indulge me, I thought I would write up basically my project plan as it sits in my brain now and let some of the pros look over what I intend to do so I get advice, warnings, helpful hints and tricks and feedback as I go along.
Also doesn't help for me to put my ideas down in one location.
Sorry if this ends up as some bad stream of conciousness ramble!
My project is creating a suit (well, 2) or Adepta Sororitas Power Armour, AKA Sisters of Battle, from Warhammer 40k.
Antoher useful image, and another one.
This isn't the first armour, or large costume project of mine as I do feelance costume, prop and prosthetic work for LARP events in the UK
In fact, I've done this style of Armour before on a stupidly tight budget, and if was just about passable: Us at a Larp event!
But I mostly do foam monster costumes and prosthetics, and various sculpted props and of course Pointlessly awesome dragon ponies.
But this time, I want to do this right!!
First of all, this costume is going to be for larp, so my intention was to use Smooth-Cast 65D, or the brush on equivalents that is the high impact one IIRC, reinforced with a layer of glass matt or two.
To try and get myself started I will be making the Helmet first, since that seems to be what most people fascinate over, it also means if I make that first I can get the collar of our chest pieces to fit in with it. That and it's a great, smaller introduction to using proper methods as described in various tutorials.
I've ordered today a nice, featureless safety helmet to use as a base, will be a little small until I rip its own foam out and mount it on my head form.
Because I'm used to doing masks and such, I'll be sculpting it out of Oil Based clay, though I'll be, for the larger pieces, moving on to WED clay that I'm a little nervous about trying.
Until that arrives I am experimenting with sculpting a little mod for my Nerf Gun that I will cast in Silicone, as I have some laying around from a previous project, then back up with plaster and do my first roto-casting experiments.
I've sculpted on the bottom of one of the magazines a banana extension that makes them much stronger resemble Bolt Pistol magazines. Kind of like a conversion kit!
I've started modifying a Stampede to resemble a Bolt Gun more, will be working on it this weekend so photos soon. Going to be using styrene, a glue gun and, probably Kneadatite or Appoxie Sculpt for details, unless I really get into casting things and details for projects.
Armature are something that I'm trying to plan out, how to best use resources, as I have no experience with doing sculpts anything like on this size.
Soon, I'll be stealing my house mate to make a plaster cast of myself and then a Fibreglass body mould for that.
Things like that backpack, erm, I'm not really sure. I think it'll involve a plate of wood with a good number of upright dowling rods and then sculpt in bulk with water based clay to get the overall shape.
This is a project that I've been wanting to do for a long long while, but I haven't had the money, employed, energy or confidence to do it!
If you have any comments, suggestions, advice please comment, and if you're interested I will keep people up to date with how I'm doing down the coming months.
Thanks for reading;
-VickiBrownies
TL-DR
I'm making a sculpted and cast suit of Sisters of Battle Power Armour for larp, it's not something I've done before any hints and tips would be nice.
I'm new here, a friend suggested I sign up and look about get a little help on a project I'm starting.
I've had a look through, seen some utterly amazing work that I can't possibly match, but certainly can aspire to and got a whole load of information. Though, there are still some random questions I'm left with and all that.
So, if you will indulge me, I thought I would write up basically my project plan as it sits in my brain now and let some of the pros look over what I intend to do so I get advice, warnings, helpful hints and tricks and feedback as I go along.
Also doesn't help for me to put my ideas down in one location.
Sorry if this ends up as some bad stream of conciousness ramble!
My project is creating a suit (well, 2) or Adepta Sororitas Power Armour, AKA Sisters of Battle, from Warhammer 40k.
Antoher useful image, and another one.
This isn't the first armour, or large costume project of mine as I do feelance costume, prop and prosthetic work for LARP events in the UK
In fact, I've done this style of Armour before on a stupidly tight budget, and if was just about passable: Us at a Larp event!
But I mostly do foam monster costumes and prosthetics, and various sculpted props and of course Pointlessly awesome dragon ponies.
But this time, I want to do this right!!
First of all, this costume is going to be for larp, so my intention was to use Smooth-Cast 65D, or the brush on equivalents that is the high impact one IIRC, reinforced with a layer of glass matt or two.
To try and get myself started I will be making the Helmet first, since that seems to be what most people fascinate over, it also means if I make that first I can get the collar of our chest pieces to fit in with it. That and it's a great, smaller introduction to using proper methods as described in various tutorials.
I've ordered today a nice, featureless safety helmet to use as a base, will be a little small until I rip its own foam out and mount it on my head form.
Because I'm used to doing masks and such, I'll be sculpting it out of Oil Based clay, though I'll be, for the larger pieces, moving on to WED clay that I'm a little nervous about trying.
Until that arrives I am experimenting with sculpting a little mod for my Nerf Gun that I will cast in Silicone, as I have some laying around from a previous project, then back up with plaster and do my first roto-casting experiments.
I've sculpted on the bottom of one of the magazines a banana extension that makes them much stronger resemble Bolt Pistol magazines. Kind of like a conversion kit!
I've started modifying a Stampede to resemble a Bolt Gun more, will be working on it this weekend so photos soon. Going to be using styrene, a glue gun and, probably Kneadatite or Appoxie Sculpt for details, unless I really get into casting things and details for projects.
Armature are something that I'm trying to plan out, how to best use resources, as I have no experience with doing sculpts anything like on this size.
Soon, I'll be stealing my house mate to make a plaster cast of myself and then a Fibreglass body mould for that.
Things like that backpack, erm, I'm not really sure. I think it'll involve a plate of wood with a good number of upright dowling rods and then sculpt in bulk with water based clay to get the overall shape.
This is a project that I've been wanting to do for a long long while, but I haven't had the money, employed, energy or confidence to do it!
If you have any comments, suggestions, advice please comment, and if you're interested I will keep people up to date with how I'm doing down the coming months.
Thanks for reading;
-VickiBrownies
TL-DR
I'm making a sculpted and cast suit of Sisters of Battle Power Armour for larp, it's not something I've done before any hints and tips would be nice.
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