strongrudder
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Krogan are by far my favorite alien race in the Mass Effect games, and thanks to pressuring from a friend, I decided to attempt making a costume - for NYCC if I can, but Halloween for sure if I end up being unable to lug a large costume on an overnight bus. 8P
I've seen krogan treated impressively in latex before, but I'm nowhere near ready to tackle that - my last costume was the TF2 Scout, which only required me to make a foam bat look like metal. So I settled for EVA foam after a little research, which seemed easier to deal with for a newbie.
I'm now in hurry-up mode on this one, having lost plenty of work time since I started in May due to fear of failure. Here's my progress so far in images:
Starting out, I did a lot of sketching to try and feel out what I wanted. The basic result I was going for was the krogan soldier/sentinel from Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode. It's essentially Grunt's armor with an older krogan's head stuck on.
I then started out with a paper prototype for the head, and used the patterns to cut out the EVA foam. Due to all the flattish planes on a krogan's head, this seemed like the best approach if I wasn't going to be sculpting and casting anything.
I wasn't sure of anything I could sculpt that would stick to EVA foam, so I just took a razor and started carving some relief in there. Here it is with the main crest piece resting on top. +2 plastic cat eyes.
I used a duct tape dummy to aid pattern-making (wouldn't even know where to start extracting models to try a pepakura method), and ended up making a wire cage shaped like a hump - posterboard didn't hold its own weight well enough otherwise. What I'm actually doing here is testing all the crest plates to see how far they are from the hump.
Here's where I finally got a basic torso cage together. I had to hold the armor on at this point - the shape of the neck hole is oblong and it didn't have enough internal support - kept trying to flatten into an O shape, right off my shoulders. The crest and face pieces have all been glued together into the mask, which I think I was holding on with a jury-rigged mess of string at the time.
My next step was to focus on the mask, because the back of the armor was proving difficult to wrap my head around. I painted the whole thing in the crest color, figuring it'd make a good undercoat for the face skin.
And this brings me up to tonight - the finished paint job on the mask. I also added some elastic straps and buckles to the mask and armor so I can actually wear them hands-free now. Also threw together the bracers, which will need some detailing to look not-boring. They stay on my arms without sliding around, which is a good start.
EDIT: I can't figure out why attachments won't let all the images show up - is it because I'm a new member? Thanks to the power of img tags I've at least got the most recent progress visible in-thread. :b
I've seen krogan treated impressively in latex before, but I'm nowhere near ready to tackle that - my last costume was the TF2 Scout, which only required me to make a foam bat look like metal. So I settled for EVA foam after a little research, which seemed easier to deal with for a newbie.
I'm now in hurry-up mode on this one, having lost plenty of work time since I started in May due to fear of failure. Here's my progress so far in images:
Starting out, I did a lot of sketching to try and feel out what I wanted. The basic result I was going for was the krogan soldier/sentinel from Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode. It's essentially Grunt's armor with an older krogan's head stuck on.
I then started out with a paper prototype for the head, and used the patterns to cut out the EVA foam. Due to all the flattish planes on a krogan's head, this seemed like the best approach if I wasn't going to be sculpting and casting anything.
I wasn't sure of anything I could sculpt that would stick to EVA foam, so I just took a razor and started carving some relief in there. Here it is with the main crest piece resting on top. +2 plastic cat eyes.
I used a duct tape dummy to aid pattern-making (wouldn't even know where to start extracting models to try a pepakura method), and ended up making a wire cage shaped like a hump - posterboard didn't hold its own weight well enough otherwise. What I'm actually doing here is testing all the crest plates to see how far they are from the hump.
Here's where I finally got a basic torso cage together. I had to hold the armor on at this point - the shape of the neck hole is oblong and it didn't have enough internal support - kept trying to flatten into an O shape, right off my shoulders. The crest and face pieces have all been glued together into the mask, which I think I was holding on with a jury-rigged mess of string at the time.
My next step was to focus on the mask, because the back of the armor was proving difficult to wrap my head around. I painted the whole thing in the crest color, figuring it'd make a good undercoat for the face skin.
And this brings me up to tonight - the finished paint job on the mask. I also added some elastic straps and buckles to the mask and armor so I can actually wear them hands-free now. Also threw together the bracers, which will need some detailing to look not-boring. They stay on my arms without sliding around, which is a good start.
EDIT: I can't figure out why attachments won't let all the images show up - is it because I'm a new member? Thanks to the power of img tags I've at least got the most recent progress visible in-thread. :b
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