Chewbacca Reveal...Yes you heard it... WIP (Pictures Resized Smaller)

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Ok so I have been wanting to make this thing for a very very very very long time. The Vader reveal has always interested me since it goes beyond movie accurate and into costume accuracy, inside and out. Well anyways, I decided if someone can make a inside and out accurate vader, why not make a chewie inside and out accurate? So that is what I am starting. This will take the entire summer of work and only one will be made for myself and I might just think about letting it go for a reasonable offer if it turns out any good.


I first started with the skull. Yes the bone.. haha. Trap Joe, a member on here really inspired me to make this because his work on his chewie is so darn excellent. I am pretty much going to make almost every part of what I imagine chewies head would look like, brain, brain stem, optic nerve, eye balls, all the other crap that should go there. Even major arteries in the human head that I will incorporate into the head. This should be interesting.
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I then decided to move on to making the teeth. These are only the upper jaw, as I will be making the lower jaw as soon as the top skull is out of the silicon in a week.
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I was bored and finished with almost everything and i decided to go ahead and make a mold of an eyeball I purchased at a medical store. Its acrylic..dont worry its not real. haha. Anyways, I took a mold of it, and cast my first prototype, and started painting with a brush. I quickly realized I suck with the brush, so airbrush it shall be!
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I have alot of work ahead of me and I will keep this thread constantly updated.
 
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Re: Chewbacca Reveal...Yes you heard it... WIP

HOLY HUGE PICTURES BATMAN!!!

Sorry about the pic size. Let me know if you guys want me to resize them.
 
Re: Chewbacca Reveal...Yes you heard it... WIP

So, now that the pics are smaller, what do you guys think of this as a start?
 
A tip for the eye painting. Leave the pour stub on, or even better, cast a steel rod out the back. Then load it into a dremel ad turn it on at its lowest speed. Now to get perfectly circular pupils and irises, you need only to touch the spinning eye with your brush. Perfect circles.

For detailing the iris, use oil paints or other slow drying paints, and with a fine hair brush with most of it's bristles missing, lightly streak various light blues with the occasional dab of green and yellow, and you'll have a highly realistic iris. For the veins, you need to find some super fine red silk strands, and glue them on with clear resin, making sure the strands stey crooked and veiney.

Then pour some more clear resin into your eye mold, and insert your painted eye into it, but don't let it press down to the bottom. Attach it to the top of the mold so that there is a millimeter or two of space between the front of the eye and the bottom of the mold.

Once cured, there will be a little clean up around the rear of the eye from where the excess resin smooshed up to, but that will be hidden from view anyway and doesnt need to look perfect. Then apply some Novus plastic polish to the front of the eye, get it nice and shiney, and then dip it in some Future to remove the glass look and give it that organic wet look.
 
Wow! I never thought to use a dremel or something of that sort. Thank you very much for the advice!



Edit- Small update... :( :( :(

So I took the teeth out of the oven, and tried pulling them off the nail and the all broke... im so bummed but its fine, its a small piece so its good :)
 
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Thanks!

I have a question now. I am working on the eyeballs and I need to know, where would I get those silk strands? I tried looking in michaels with no luck...


Anyways, here are the pics of the eyeballs so far.

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I have a question now. I am working on the eyeballs and I need to know, where would I get those silk strands? I tried looking in michaels with no luck...

Just hunt around for a piece of red silk and pull it apart. Very fine nylon may work too.
 
A tip for the eye painting. Leave the pour stub on, or even better, cast a steel rod out the back. Then load it into a dremel ad turn it on at its lowest speed. Now to get perfectly circular pupils and irises, you need only to touch the spinning eye with your brush. Perfect circles.

For detailing the iris, use oil paints or other slow drying paints, and with a fine hair brush with most of it's bristles missing, lightly streak various light blues with the occasional dab of green and yellow, and you'll have a highly realistic iris. For the veins, you need to find some super fine red silk strands, and glue them on with clear resin, making sure the strands stey crooked and veiney.

Then pour some more clear resin into your eye mold, and insert your painted eye into it, but don't let it press down to the bottom. Attach it to the top of the mold so that there is a millimeter or two of space between the front of the eye and the bottom of the mold.

Once cured, there will be a little clean up around the rear of the eye from where the excess resin smooshed up to, but that will be hidden from view anyway and doesnt need to look perfect. Then apply some Novus plastic polish to the front of the eye, get it nice and shiney, and then dip it in some Future to remove the glass look and give it that organic wet look.

Impressive tips! :thumbsup
 
Indeed they are. I found some nice silk and went at it with my knife haha.


Small update - The skull is still sitting in silicon. Its on its 5th layer and is getting thicker and thicker. 4 more layers and I will add the plaster shell and demold.

NEW EYES!!!
I got sick of the old eyes because they just sucked. So I cast up a new pair and here they are.
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Later tonight, when the paint dries, I will add the details to the eye. And I will also add the arteries.
 
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