Hell cat costume - kitty of doooooom!
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Only your second time airbrushing, with excellent results. Little details like the black spots on the muzzle where the whiskers come out
are a nice touch. It's little details like that help make creatures come to life.
This world can always use more nerds
Oh yeah, I got too impatient and added some whiskers to see how I wanted to attach them before laying in the black marks. I was going to paint first, but hey, at least now it's an easy job putting in the rest! I think it's a nice effect, might add some whiskers to the brow area too, since most cats have a couple there.
Thanks again
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Another minor-ish update, I played with worbla for the first time today and made up the bracers. Still need to prime, sand, paint and all that but they're not too bad. Not sure if I'm in love with worbla yet but I'll know later once they're finished up properly. I do love the rigidity it gives to the foam and how forgiving it is.
I've never really used it before this, so I want to give it a chance to impress me. I can definitely see how people rave about it, seeing as it's a great way to get your foam armour finished up in a way that's mostly rigid, durable and can take a lot of detail. The ability to piece bits together and smooth it over like weird clay is kinda cool too, and it's very forgiving.
Cons - the rough surface, price, scorched fingers
Right now I'm trying a simple gesso/sand/gesso/sand paint finish leaving it slightly rough to resemble rusty armour. Just hope it works really
kialna
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It probably will, though for real smooth surfaces, you're better off with wood glue, gesso and maybe filler. I've used worbla for Smaug and at the time I was happy with it. Now I'm a bit more feeling like going for other materials. Though I guess it has to do with the kind of cosplays I'm doing...
Sure! yeah, I'll definitely try filler if I want a smooth finish on something. Definitely depends on what you're doing too, yeah - I've been doing soft costumes for a while and really had no need to use worbla, but seeing what people do with it I had to give it a try and this is a good simple starting point.
kialna
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It does yeah. It's very versatile, but since I learnt what it is made of and then how much they charge for it, I just feel like 'I feel cheated on'. Hahaha
But it can be really easy and great to work with and get a feel of stuff. It will look good for rusty armour. Use drybrushing as a technique. The texture is great already so what I'd do is lay down a coat of black, then some places with red/brown where you want it to be rusty and then start layering with grey, lighter grey, silver, and maybe another layer of silver, or pewter/bronze whatever paints you have.
But it can be really easy and great to work with and get a feel of stuff. It will look good for rusty armour.
Use drybrushing as a technique. The texture is great already so what I'd do is lay down a coat of black, then some places with red/brown where you want it to be rusty and then start layering with grey, lighter grey, silver, and maybe another layer of silver, or pewter/bronze whatever paints you have.
It does yeah. It's very versatile, but since I learnt what it is made of and then how much they charge for it, I just feel like 'I feel cheated on'. Hahaha
But it can be really easy and great to work with and get a feel of stuff. It will look good for rusty armour.
Yep! Drybrushing is my go-to technique
I'll probably just go really simple though, spray silver then add a brown wash, drybrush with black, add rust and then some extra silver if I want any areas to pop. Then some blood spatter, because blood spatter
If it works
I used to, but then I started painting miniatures and learned a lot of techniques that I'm trying out on a larger scale. Worked on the horns and claws and everything, so I'm seeing if it works for the armour too. The basic idea is lay down your base colour at a sort of midpoint, and then highlight and shade around it using drybrushing and washes. Kinda like doing a digital painting or something.
Only a quick paint job, mainly to test out the colours, but here we go. Rusty nasty and all!
They just need leather thonging and straps now, and then they'll go on the arm gloves. Best to attach it all together, less pieces overall mean less failure points and less chance of slippage.
They just need leather thonging and straps now, and then they'll go on the arm gloves. Best to attach it all together, less pieces overall mean less failure points and less chance of slippage.
Been a bit busy lately preparing for my interview to study costume at WAAPA (the WA academy of performing arts).
Now that's over I'm working on making the "metal" armour parts. It's only one shoulder and the bracers, if the legs look really bare and unbalanced later I might do greaves but I doubt it'll need them. This will look similar to the bracers above but have little deer skull caps with horns protruding from the big piece, ringed with the same faux fur.
Two kinds of thermoplastics too there, the big bit has worbla like the bracers and the smaller piece is craftiflex. Kinda cool seeing the differences between the two, craftiflex is smoother but stickier, and slightly less adhesive to the foam.
Now that's over I'm working on making the "metal" armour parts. It's only one shoulder and the bracers, if the legs look really bare and unbalanced later I might do greaves but I doubt it'll need them. This will look similar to the bracers above but have little deer skull caps with horns protruding from the big piece, ringed with the same faux fur.
Two kinds of thermoplastics too there, the big bit has worbla like the bracers and the smaller piece is craftiflex. Kinda cool seeing the differences between the two, craftiflex is smoother but stickier, and slightly less adhesive to the foam.
Yay! Kitty shoulder is all done.
I need to add the strapping but I don't want to do that until I'm sure about what the rest of the upper body is going to look like. I'm thinking raggedy large weave tunic in earthy colours with leather accents, but I'm not entirely sure just yet. The strapping will include the second pauldron, which will be leather and incorporate another deer skull.
In the shade
And in the sun
Yay!
I need to add the strapping but I don't want to do that until I'm sure about what the rest of the upper body is going to look like. I'm thinking raggedy large weave tunic in earthy colours with leather accents, but I'm not entirely sure just yet. The strapping will include the second pauldron, which will be leather and incorporate another deer skull.
In the shade
And in the sun
Yay!
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