Chewbacca mk 3 mask build. Warning...tons of pictures. RE-LINKED Images to Imjur

[PoopaPapaPalps]

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Man, this looks like one big pain in the ass to make!:lol

I am curious though, how does the lip mech fit to the silicone skin?

 

[chefhawk]

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Lol thanks

The snarl mech pieces are first glued behind the lip with silicone, then a small piece of power mesh is glued over the top for added strength whilst maintaining movement. Again glued with silicone.

Hope that helps

 

[LeMaxim]

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Wow!

I just stumbled across this when I was idling by.

Fantastic work! Really stunning. Keep it up!

 

[chefhawk]

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its pretty much finished...
Just a little bit of interior work for better fitting when opening the mouth.
onto a couple of pics.

bear in mind no eye makeup worn for these pics.

cheers

 

[chefhawk]

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[russellsch]

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That's, like, completely freaking awesome!

 

[OldKen]

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That movement you've managed to get is simply awesome.

It looks more "real" than ep 3 or 7 imho.

You really should make a kit...

Great work on this! And I've seen all of your chewy build threads!

That's, like, completely freaking awesome!

 

[DINVADER]

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Wow that the first I've really seen anyone complain about EP7 Chewie. When it was first seen people said it looked near perfect.

 

[The Terminator]

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Great looking chewie

 

[chefhawk]

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Cheers for that.. Watch this space

 

[Holy Wookiee]

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[desire to know more intensifies]

 

[chefhawk]

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http://www.forum.rebellegion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=67474&sid=1dd7489c354a217cc6850f70cde0e4db

Some info here.


cheers

 

[Lt Washburn]

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This is terrific! I've seen other Chewies before, but not the whole process all the way through. So many different techniques and disciplines that go into this. I thought I was impressed enough, then I see you're doing it essentially one-handed. Very impressed. I'm curious what you know of the real costumes and how close your methods are to what was done on them.

 

[chefhawk]

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Thank you for the kind words.
It took about six months research and a ton of lateral thinking.
My methods are close, but the suit was a knitted piece with yak hair added. Whereas mine is made from a mesh and the hair is latch hooked into it.
National fiber technology or nft as its commonly known was used for the prequal wookies including chewbacca.

There is a new documentary that comes with the blu Ray of the force awakens that has a fair bit of info on the episode seven chewbacca. Mat pfingsten (probably spelt wrong...sorry) has tons of info uploaded to the rebel legion and in my mind his research and time spent sharing information was invaluable in my quest to make chewbacca. I also learned how to edit in Final Cut Pro X to put together versions of the original trilogy with just chewbacca in the scenes.

But also on top of that this was the fourth attempt at making a mask.
Hopefully I have done one of my passions a respectable version. But hopefully one day I
Will see Stuart freebourns original casts. Well that's my dream anyway.

Thanks again

 

[Lt Washburn]

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I was just reading about fake hair (crepe wool) in regards to creating fake Star Trek style sideburns...


You should upload your Chewie only version of Star Wars to YouTube.

 

[chefhawk]

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Here's a few to keep you from getting bored

[video]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOOvMh7_bny-ENW41JyNCmO2PYK_Ooedl[/video]

It's a playlist...keep watching

 

[chefhawk]

Please excuse the wait whilst I move all my photos over from Photobucket to imgur, and re-edit all the thread with updated links.


Cheers

 

[chefhawk]

Just making a new sculpt and mask to get chewbacca looking as screen accurate as can be.

I'm going to start a brand new thread

 

[OdiWan72]

Cant wait for your V3 mask!!!

 

[chefhawk]

All pics finally updated..sorry for the delay