11B30B4
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Hello everyone, I have been a member here for some time now and I spend most of my time on the general modeling thread. I have been going to DragonCon since 1987 (when I graduated from HS) and never created a costume before. I have had several ideas over the years and just never really set myself to build one.
Since this will be my first costume I decided to shoot small but aim high. In this endeavor I decided to mash two of my favorite genres music and steampunk. I will admit that when steampunk became popular a few years ago, I was not a fan. However, since there has been so many great mash ups of genres like star wars and steampunk. I have really been impressed and inspired.
So my good friend DAC and I decided to build steampunk deadmau5 heads. About a month ago we came up with some concept artwork.
I do not expect the heads to look exactly like this artwork but its a good reference as we build.
There are a lot of DM5 build here on RPF and on the internet so I will try to skip most of the common stuff and concentrate on the steampunk stuff.
We used these measurements for the general head build.
To the build:
14” acrylic globe cleanup and marking
Mouth cut and globe reinforced with fiberglass resin
These are the helmets we picked up
Wood bracing drilled, T-nuts installed and the braces hot glued in
Helmet fitting
Ok moving on to the first eye:
For this eye we wanted it to look like a telephoto lense.
We got some of these LED flickering candles that we took apart and reused the LEDs to provide the lighting.
Next was the cathode ray tube thingy. This was a last minute idea and I like how it turned out. It has two strobing blue LEDs in it one in the top and one in the bottom.
Next was the iris eye. We had planned on having this iris operational however as we ran into issues we decided that due to the short time frame we have to work with we needed to simply make it fixed. Hell it still looks cool.
We got the plans for the iris from instructables.com and scaled it for our needs. We plan on putting a green LED inside the eye.
Next is the wood ear. We wanted the ear to look like wood (think wooden barrel) with metal banding. For obvious reasons we could not use real wood except perhaps balsa wood but we found a low cost solution. We first cut the ears from 3/4” thick foam insulating sheathing. This is the first time I worked with this stuff and I do not recommend it. It melts when almost anything is applied to it. Paint, Bondo, resin, glue, it all melts the foam board. Anyway we got the bondo to hold and cause little damage so we ran with it. Once the bondo was on then sanded, we applied a vinyl wood grain decal. Next we applied a matt lacquer paint finish.
For my ear I added a small PC fan and painted it to look worn.
Next is the boiler tanks. We used one of the candle LDS here as well.
Here DAC added a steam whistle to his.
Next we made some steam gauges.
For the mouth we are using some metal mesh and we will back it with black see through material.
DAC will be putting a leather mask (made of foam) on his head.
So that is where we are at this time.
Next we will be building the gear ear. I plan on using this toy clock.
Yes, we have lab coats.
Well updates soon. We are interested in your comments.
Since this will be my first costume I decided to shoot small but aim high. In this endeavor I decided to mash two of my favorite genres music and steampunk. I will admit that when steampunk became popular a few years ago, I was not a fan. However, since there has been so many great mash ups of genres like star wars and steampunk. I have really been impressed and inspired.
So my good friend DAC and I decided to build steampunk deadmau5 heads. About a month ago we came up with some concept artwork.
I do not expect the heads to look exactly like this artwork but its a good reference as we build.
There are a lot of DM5 build here on RPF and on the internet so I will try to skip most of the common stuff and concentrate on the steampunk stuff.
We used these measurements for the general head build.
To the build:
14” acrylic globe cleanup and marking
Mouth cut and globe reinforced with fiberglass resin
These are the helmets we picked up
Wood bracing drilled, T-nuts installed and the braces hot glued in
Helmet fitting
Ok moving on to the first eye:
For this eye we wanted it to look like a telephoto lense.
We got some of these LED flickering candles that we took apart and reused the LEDs to provide the lighting.
Next was the cathode ray tube thingy. This was a last minute idea and I like how it turned out. It has two strobing blue LEDs in it one in the top and one in the bottom.
Next was the iris eye. We had planned on having this iris operational however as we ran into issues we decided that due to the short time frame we have to work with we needed to simply make it fixed. Hell it still looks cool.
We got the plans for the iris from instructables.com and scaled it for our needs. We plan on putting a green LED inside the eye.
Next is the wood ear. We wanted the ear to look like wood (think wooden barrel) with metal banding. For obvious reasons we could not use real wood except perhaps balsa wood but we found a low cost solution. We first cut the ears from 3/4” thick foam insulating sheathing. This is the first time I worked with this stuff and I do not recommend it. It melts when almost anything is applied to it. Paint, Bondo, resin, glue, it all melts the foam board. Anyway we got the bondo to hold and cause little damage so we ran with it. Once the bondo was on then sanded, we applied a vinyl wood grain decal. Next we applied a matt lacquer paint finish.
For my ear I added a small PC fan and painted it to look worn.
Next is the boiler tanks. We used one of the candle LDS here as well.
Here DAC added a steam whistle to his.
Next we made some steam gauges.
For the mouth we are using some metal mesh and we will back it with black see through material.
DAC will be putting a leather mask (made of foam) on his head.
So that is where we are at this time.
Next we will be building the gear ear. I plan on using this toy clock.
Yes, we have lab coats.
Well updates soon. We are interested in your comments.
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