Durkness
Well-Known Member
Recently acquired an awesome custom cowl from JFcustom (found HERE) and decided to start this project. Concept is to use the full face helmet, get the scarab made for the back, and use some modified Iron Man parts.
There will be a break in this as far as building but that is because I also have an Iron Patriot suit that needs painted before the premier... I have my builds on my facebook if you are interested.
Anywho...for the scarab. I found the back that I liked and started sketching for measurements and scale. I was going to freehand it but then I decided the back picture would work for templates:
1. Rotated and scaled picture to size I needed in Photoshop
2. Used the Adobe Acrobat print out the picture using the 'poster' function
3. Cut out the design and use as templates.
The scale was perfect... really easy to do for 2D models if you can't find templates. I used a hot knife to make the indention's for the vents/holes/whatevers.
The cowl is scaled a little big.... I will debate on what to do with it at the end. I would like to see it put together before starting a new one. It is a great mix of alien/bug so I am really happy with the design. It's a JFcustom custom....
There will be a break in this as far as building but that is because I also have an Iron Patriot suit that needs painted before the premier... I have my builds on my facebook if you are interested.
Anywho...for the scarab. I found the back that I liked and started sketching for measurements and scale. I was going to freehand it but then I decided the back picture would work for templates:
1. Rotated and scaled picture to size I needed in Photoshop
2. Used the Adobe Acrobat print out the picture using the 'poster' function
3. Cut out the design and use as templates.
The scale was perfect... really easy to do for 2D models if you can't find templates. I used a hot knife to make the indention's for the vents/holes/whatevers.
The cowl is scaled a little big.... I will debate on what to do with it at the end. I would like to see it put together before starting a new one. It is a great mix of alien/bug so I am really happy with the design. It's a JFcustom custom....
