wozabee
New Member
Hi guys,
I'm sure slow on looking up what's being done on this forum. Well, I've only been on it for a few months anyway.
I designed the first season Peacekeeper armour & helped sculpt & mould all the bits back with Stdio Kite in Sydney (our workshop was the other side of the wall to Farscape's first prop n creature shop at Fox Studios, Sydney.
We were given the gun for me to create the thigh piece to hold it.
I wanted (within the rush time to design it) to have the lines of the gun blend in nicely without going all the way to making a "Robocop" sort of gun-delivery mech' (although we WERE tempted, as I LOVE that gag).
All of our masters were made from PVC Pipe, foam, body filler, etc. Whatever worked to suit the look of my sketches (I can post em, if you'd like). Then we made very heavy-walled, Aluminium-filled Epoxy male Vac-form bucks with ultra-high-density urethane foam backing. The pieces were generally Vac-formed in 3mm hair-cell Black ABS.
Most of the extremity bits were also vac-forms. The calfs were a neat front/back pair that cupped into each other nicely and were held with these rather nifty mostly-plastic Ski-boot clips which I've not seen on the market since.
The helmets were sculpted from scratch in oil-based clay, with the visors being sourced for GATH, a Western australian Sufing Helmet company that made these beautiful full-face visors. A bit wasteful though, as I really wanted that 3 part thing happening, so we chopped 3 of them for each helmet! Helmet molds were in silicone/fibreglass, then slip cast in Era polymers TU971 Urethane, carefully cleaned, primed with loctite 770 (BEST primer EVER!). then We had them Vacuum metalised at Finished products™ Sydney, with a deep grey plasticised lacquer finish coat.
The rest of the body armour was heat-formed EVA240/350. Almost shoe-sole tough (same stuff i used to make Yahoo Serious's armour out of on "Reckless Kelly"). We just patterned all the main shapes, then had a series of very large domes to form them over. Just used a sheet of heavy spandex to pull each bit down into shape while forming/cooling.
And, lastly, all the small bits were generally model-made masters, silicone molds, sometimes fastcast, sometimes TU960 urethane, and vacuum metalized.
Sad part is - having rushed it all at the time - I took no pics at all! and have been looking intermittently for some ok ones ever since. Also, not too far back, during a big culling, Studio Kite threw out all the master molds!!! (waaah!).
Cheers,
Woz
I'm sure slow on looking up what's being done on this forum. Well, I've only been on it for a few months anyway.
I designed the first season Peacekeeper armour & helped sculpt & mould all the bits back with Stdio Kite in Sydney (our workshop was the other side of the wall to Farscape's first prop n creature shop at Fox Studios, Sydney.
We were given the gun for me to create the thigh piece to hold it.
I wanted (within the rush time to design it) to have the lines of the gun blend in nicely without going all the way to making a "Robocop" sort of gun-delivery mech' (although we WERE tempted, as I LOVE that gag).
All of our masters were made from PVC Pipe, foam, body filler, etc. Whatever worked to suit the look of my sketches (I can post em, if you'd like). Then we made very heavy-walled, Aluminium-filled Epoxy male Vac-form bucks with ultra-high-density urethane foam backing. The pieces were generally Vac-formed in 3mm hair-cell Black ABS.
Most of the extremity bits were also vac-forms. The calfs were a neat front/back pair that cupped into each other nicely and were held with these rather nifty mostly-plastic Ski-boot clips which I've not seen on the market since.
The helmets were sculpted from scratch in oil-based clay, with the visors being sourced for GATH, a Western australian Sufing Helmet company that made these beautiful full-face visors. A bit wasteful though, as I really wanted that 3 part thing happening, so we chopped 3 of them for each helmet! Helmet molds were in silicone/fibreglass, then slip cast in Era polymers TU971 Urethane, carefully cleaned, primed with loctite 770 (BEST primer EVER!). then We had them Vacuum metalised at Finished products™ Sydney, with a deep grey plasticised lacquer finish coat.
The rest of the body armour was heat-formed EVA240/350. Almost shoe-sole tough (same stuff i used to make Yahoo Serious's armour out of on "Reckless Kelly"). We just patterned all the main shapes, then had a series of very large domes to form them over. Just used a sheet of heavy spandex to pull each bit down into shape while forming/cooling.
And, lastly, all the small bits were generally model-made masters, silicone molds, sometimes fastcast, sometimes TU960 urethane, and vacuum metalized.
Sad part is - having rushed it all at the time - I took no pics at all! and have been looking intermittently for some ok ones ever since. Also, not too far back, during a big culling, Studio Kite threw out all the master molds!!! (waaah!).
Cheers,
Woz
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