Mikki Haight
New Member
Hi everyone! I'm new here, though I've been a member of the 405th for several years. This seemed like a more appropriate place to post my latest project: a Crimson Raider from Borderlands 2, which I hope will someday be a Crimson Lancer from the first game.
First off: Files. Everyone loves files. I want to give credit to whomever ripped the helmet and chest files from the game that I used as my base, because it was so long ago that I honestly forgot where I got them from.
Helmet:
View attachment 265538
http://www.4shared.com/file/LRtT_bYmba/crimsonlance_helm.html
These are the back flaps: I did not make or edit this model. If you did, please let me know and I will credit and thank you.
crimson lance helmet back flaps - ?? - 4shared - Mikki Haight
Chest:
View attachment 265539
http://www.4shared.com/file/8Zqu12BAba/crimsonlance_chest_simple_one_.html
I modified this model a bit. I didn't want to build the double "bomb rings" that the armor actually sports because I couldn't think of a good way to glass them. Also I had noticed a lot of clipping between the helmet and the inner ring in-game, so I removed the inner ring. As I would later find out, Gearbox artists have only the faintest concept of what proportions a real person has, so I also had to significantly widen and lengthen out the bottom opening. The thing was too skinny for me, and I'm pretty darn skinny. If you're anything but a rail you will need to lengthen it even more. (Meaning you have my permission to modify the model.) Also I changed the angle of the little piece at the top of the neck where the tubing connects.
Some build progress photos! The rest are on my Flickr.
The stupid little fiddly parts right at the bridge of the nose were left off and the area closed with masking tape.
Outside resined, inside being mudglassed. I prefer mudglassing over other forms of reinforcement because I find it quick, easy, relatively inexpensive, reasonably strong, and retains a high level of detail.
Second coat of Bondo. The low poly count around the back necessitated a lot of buildup to get something approaching smoothness.
Helmet fully sanded and primed. Testing whether the paper model was going to fit. It looked good here but turned out way to skinny.
If you hadn't noticed by now, I'm pretty bad at taking progress photos. This was the first time I released the mother mold (made from FreeForm Air - I love the stuff) from the glove mold (made from Rebound 25 because of the undercuts). Thank goodness Reynolds Advanced Materials started carrying Smooth-on products because they are the best.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3687/9554577154_02e75a21bf.jpg[img][/URL]
First pull from the mother mold. This was cast with Shell Shock and came out really thick in the front and very thin in the back because we didn't sit there and baby it. Other than that, I like Shell Shock. It was really easy, very fast, and fairly light and strong at a reasonable thickness. Then (I am so bad with names) [he] did a cast with Epoxacoat and Epoxamite and I liked those results better. Unfortunately, this was my first experience with Epoxamite:
[URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikki429/9609501248/"][IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7369/9609501248_7bfba59f69.jpg
Yeah.
My second pull with these materials came out pretty good. Cutting out the eyesockets was the hardest part of the entire process. Getting them flush enough with themselves that the lenses could be glued in took a lot of grinding and sanding. I made a template for the lenses and cut them out of 2L coke bottles, then applied mirrored privacy film to the back (hence the bubbles). A friend did most of the detail work on the paint job. The back plates are cut out of Sintra, held apart by little Sintra struts superglued in, and held to the helmet with a combination of Great Stuff expanding polyurethane foam and Gorilla Glue polyurethane adhesive. Those suckers aren't going anywhere.
More pictures of the chest are forthcoming, and final photos will be edited into this post.
First off: Files. Everyone loves files. I want to give credit to whomever ripped the helmet and chest files from the game that I used as my base, because it was so long ago that I honestly forgot where I got them from.
Helmet:
View attachment 265538
http://www.4shared.com/file/LRtT_bYmba/crimsonlance_helm.html
These are the back flaps: I did not make or edit this model. If you did, please let me know and I will credit and thank you.
crimson lance helmet back flaps - ?? - 4shared - Mikki Haight
Chest:
View attachment 265539
http://www.4shared.com/file/8Zqu12BAba/crimsonlance_chest_simple_one_.html
I modified this model a bit. I didn't want to build the double "bomb rings" that the armor actually sports because I couldn't think of a good way to glass them. Also I had noticed a lot of clipping between the helmet and the inner ring in-game, so I removed the inner ring. As I would later find out, Gearbox artists have only the faintest concept of what proportions a real person has, so I also had to significantly widen and lengthen out the bottom opening. The thing was too skinny for me, and I'm pretty darn skinny. If you're anything but a rail you will need to lengthen it even more. (Meaning you have my permission to modify the model.) Also I changed the angle of the little piece at the top of the neck where the tubing connects.
Some build progress photos! The rest are on my Flickr.
The stupid little fiddly parts right at the bridge of the nose were left off and the area closed with masking tape.
Outside resined, inside being mudglassed. I prefer mudglassing over other forms of reinforcement because I find it quick, easy, relatively inexpensive, reasonably strong, and retains a high level of detail.
Second coat of Bondo. The low poly count around the back necessitated a lot of buildup to get something approaching smoothness.
Helmet fully sanded and primed. Testing whether the paper model was going to fit. It looked good here but turned out way to skinny.
If you hadn't noticed by now, I'm pretty bad at taking progress photos. This was the first time I released the mother mold (made from FreeForm Air - I love the stuff) from the glove mold (made from Rebound 25 because of the undercuts). Thank goodness Reynolds Advanced Materials started carrying Smooth-on products because they are the best.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3687/9554577154_02e75a21bf.jpg[img][/URL]
First pull from the mother mold. This was cast with Shell Shock and came out really thick in the front and very thin in the back because we didn't sit there and baby it. Other than that, I like Shell Shock. It was really easy, very fast, and fairly light and strong at a reasonable thickness. Then (I am so bad with names) [he] did a cast with Epoxacoat and Epoxamite and I liked those results better. Unfortunately, this was my first experience with Epoxamite:
[URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikki429/9609501248/"][IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7369/9609501248_7bfba59f69.jpg
Yeah.
My second pull with these materials came out pretty good. Cutting out the eyesockets was the hardest part of the entire process. Getting them flush enough with themselves that the lenses could be glued in took a lot of grinding and sanding. I made a template for the lenses and cut them out of 2L coke bottles, then applied mirrored privacy film to the back (hence the bubbles). A friend did most of the detail work on the paint job. The back plates are cut out of Sintra, held apart by little Sintra struts superglued in, and held to the helmet with a combination of Great Stuff expanding polyurethane foam and Gorilla Glue polyurethane adhesive. Those suckers aren't going anywhere.
More pictures of the chest are forthcoming, and final photos will be edited into this post.
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