God of War Golden fleece (pic heavy)

[evilchiken469]

Hi folks, I was recently commissioned to build the golden fleece from god of war for a friend of mine.



After doing some research, I found a lot of Kratos costumes but almost none that had the fleece so I figured i was on my own I considered using eva foam but I wanted something that felt more solid so after researching materials I discovered thermo plastic. i went back and forth between wonderflex and worbla but eventually settled on worbla and decided i would try wonderflex next time. and thus blueprints began.



at first i free handed a drawing of the first piece to get an idea for size. of course since i free handed it it was far from symmetrical.



I then cut it out and cut it in half.



i could then trace out both sides onto a new piece of paper and have symmetrical templates. I decided one was to thin and went with the other.



I then did the same with the large piece and also created a third template by adjusting the straightness of the edges on one of the templates.



then decided on the most accurate pieces these look pretty much bang on. then they were traced onto foam and cut out then cut out of worbla and put together. currently i am working on the larger piece it still needs a little bit more shaping but I hope to finish both these pieces by the end of the weekend.



Thanks for looking.

 

[evilchiken469]

Ive done alot more work on this through the weekend. Ive experimented abit with creating the rim around each piece and the horns.


I've been using Aves Apoxie Sculpt for all my sculpting purposes and I must say that this stuff is amazing. I had some from years ago laying around the house but unfortunately it had dried up and I couldnt use it anymore so I had to order more. I started out trying to sculpt the rim on the large piece it came out ok I suppose, I think I still have more work to do on it to make it acceptable.


I decided to try something new and try the horns first on the smaller piece i thought it would take far to much sculpt to build it all so i bought some expanding foam and taped off the horn areas to get the base. After the expanding foam had dried and much MUCH carving later i had this.
and this

Then I began sculpting.


I still need to finish the rim as I was running out of places to hold onto the thing while the sculpt dries. I will hopefully do more tonight. Thanks for looking let me know what you think.

 

[evilchiken469]

well regardless if anyone is interested in this thread or not I managed to get a bit of work done on this today.

While I am happy with the results of carving the foam and sculpting over the top it took a lot of work and to much guessing on where the horns were supposed to be on the last part so for the big piece I tried something new.


I wrapped the whole thing in tin foil and cut out the horns I had drawn on my templates and taped them to the foil then covered it all in foam.


it did what I was hoping and after it was mostly dry I was able to remove the foil from the piece. The idea is that when this completely dries (tomorrow) I will be able to pull the tin foil off of the bottom of the foam but the paper template will be stuck to it. I will then be able to see exactly where the foam needs to be cut away and I can carve it to shape. also since the foam was sprayed while the foil was around the piece It should have the perfect curve to be attached to the piece, then sculpt over and finished.

 

[evilchiken469]

so I didn't get much at all done just a small update my experiment worked! wel kind of the tin foil peeled of with ease and the template is still stuck to the foam so I can see where I need to cut. Unfortunately it doesn't fit flush to the original piece as I was hoping it would.

 

[Kredepops]

Pretty cool build!! Looking forward to seeing where this goes. I was thinking about using expanding foam myself for a project, so it's very interesting to see that it is possible to carve into something nice.

 

[evilchiken469]

been a while since ive posted anything but the work continues the fleece is almost finished.



I glued the foam to the worbla and carved it all down. Unfortunately i was running to low for comfort on apoxie so i had to switch to a new clay.

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It was relatively cheap and got the job done but as it dired it cracked so ultimately i had to go back over with apoxie any ways.



finally i built the third piece using all worbla it was surprisingly the hardest piece.



while I waited for the apoxie to dry on the horns of the big piece i decided to start trying different gold paints that were left in my garage from other projects. Fortunately i really loved the first one I tried.



Now i have coated the third piece in gesso and about to start coating the big piece. Everything should be done in the next few days.


Thanks for looking

 

[LeneBean]

Great work!! Have you finished the fleece? And if so how do you plan on rigging up the straps for wear?

 

[Gladius]

Nice man keep it up

 

[Ruddigger]

Nice to see a God of War prop that's not Blades of Chaos. I've never worked with worbla, could you give some more info on it?

 

[evilchiken469]

Nice to see a God of War prop that's not Blades of Chaos. I've never worked with worbla, could you give some more info on it?

what is it you are interested in knowing you can pm me and I will answer any questions as best I can I admit im not an expert this was my first attempt with the stuff

 

[Ruddigger]

I was only wondering how you liked it, or if you learned anything about working with it on this project. I've heard people talk about it, but I've never had a chance to use it.

 

[evilchiken469]

well I guess what I have to say is that I definitely learned a lot but not enough to really give an opinion on it. it is easy to work with but for the price im not so sure its for me. definitely don't go and buy the biggest sheet available like I did its definitely worth trying out. I guess the one thing I really learned is to get a grip on how it works before you go and try and build something I ruined a lot of attempts by being impatient and just not knowing what I was doing. but all in all once you get the hang of it the stuff is honestly pretty phenomenal and I think I will definitely use it again in the future if only to use up all the left over I have.