Imperius : Archangel of Valor (Diablo 3)

[Fabricator Djinn]

More progress. I started on the hard bit of the chest - the sun symbol.

After a lot of failed patterns I finally made one that I liked and transferred it to plastic.

I'm going to throw this thing on my vac table and make a pull of it when it is finished (I figure a hollow one will be lighter and take the curve more easily.) this mercifully allows me to build it flat.

Started building up the base layers.

then apoxie sculpt to fill the gaps. lots of sanding.

Threw a thin coat of filler primer on it so I could see the non symmetrical bits for cleanup, there is surprisingly little to do in that regard! Starting to look pretty close!

Going to do a bit of cleanup, then the 2nd round of apoxie sculpted details go on!

 

[Lambzilla]

Man, I can't say it enough. This is looking awesome!

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Thanks Lamb!

The sun buck is pretty much finished! Some minor cleanup and then im going to make a pull and see what happens!

Hopefully this works, if it does then the other detailing comes next!

 

[Plasmodius]

Doing great so far!

 

[NinjaShani]

You really did a great job on this. Awesome work!

 

[TheRambler]

Aaawesome. This is a build I look forward to seeing completed. I loved your Azrael build.

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Thanks guys, I'll do my best to give this character the attention he deserves. Imperius will live!

In that vein, I messed around with the sun today and got it mounted! Its messy and unfinished.. but I'm posting it anyways.

First I made a pull of the two halves on my little vac table, then quickly discovered that shells and compound curves don't get along well. I was running uot of good ideas so I decided to try a stupid one. I flipped the two pulls I made over, and filled them with cheap cheap fiberglass resin. "Ghetto casting" - Anyways the goal was to pull the casts out of the plastic molds before they had fully cured so I could bend it to shape and mount it before it finished hardening. The general crappiness of the resin I used (Home depot brand!) probably helped with this, because it worked flawlessly.

The bolts are sunk below the surface, so I can very easy hide them with apoxie sculpt later, and its not going anywhere! Lots of cleanup yet to do, and I need to hide the seam and attach the middle bit.. but its finally "together" - there arent any more parts of the chest to build.. its all trim and detailing now. Let the fun begin!

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Goal met for the day.

I managed to get the base for the collar trim added and cleaned up.. tomorrow I can probably put a coat of filler primer on this! Nothing like primer to make a project look like one piece - anyways.

Added half inch trim to the collars - sintra

With the sun

 

[Drack]

This starting to look really good man!

 

[TheRambler]

First I made a pull of the two halves on my little vac table, then quickly discovered that shells and compound curves don't get along well.

I was wondering if you had a plan for that. Glad to see it worked out in the end.

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Yeah, didnt want to us resin because of the weight added.. but it worked real weel as a "oh sh**" fallback.

Added some more to the trim (I do not like this change, damn you acrylic piping) and did a lot of cleanup sanding - will need to do a lot more filling/sanding before I can paint any actual colors.. but I really do enjoy the "prime it!" stage of projects.. it all starts to come together.

Atleast now you can see fully where I'm going with this.. I'm especially happy with that lower segment under the main breastplate - anyways I might be able to finish this next weekend! Last major bit is the two armpit guard circles and a bunch of finish work/flourish detailing!

(Also of course filling that bottom gap in the sun and sanding it flush with the other side/general straightening/hole filling/making everything permanent)

 

[Rysjin7717]

First th' black kight templar now this amazin' work as always keep it up subbed.

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[Fabricator Djinn]

Thanks Rys!

More progress! Did a bunch of filling, hid and sealed all the screws and bolts into it - its permanent now. I am so impatient to paint this gold.. urgg.

I also added some of the flourish detailing that this armor will literally be buried in - Starting to reach the end stretch of this piece of the chest! Guess I need to start on those circular star guards.

 

[N7Calibrations]

The detail work on the resin is beautiful.

That's looking so good.

 

[Lambzilla]

Whoa! This is looking crazy good! Subbed!

 

[rex159]

nice work man thats amazing

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Thanks guys!

Well I did a bit more detail work and am at a place with the chest where I either paint it gold or set it aside, I decided to set it aside. BUT NOT BEFORE i TOOK SOME STUPID PICTURES TO MAKE SURE IT FIT.

I had started on the bases for the shoulders, and their patterns were extremely simple to setup and make compared to the chest so I cranked out a pair of shoulder bases (minus the inner spike, still working on how ill attach that lining/attach to the chest). The major shells of the shoulders are essentially done (seam hiding and rounding aside). They are made from 1.8th sintra sheets and will be sealed and strengthened a bit on the inside (only a little bit) with Rondo.

with that setup, while the rondo was curing fully I started freehanding the innermost layer of detailing, so far so good I think. Might tweak it a little bit, but its just the first layer so bah.

One of these days I'm going to wisen up and start casting parts instead of making/using masters.. guess I havent learned that lesson yet. There is much cutting in my future.

 

[Rysjin7717]

Hey Djinn, great work on that chest any pinchin' at all? Th' shoulders are lookin' up as well this is gonna be epic!!!!

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[Fabricator Djinn]

Progress has been sort of slow of late, as I'm forced to weekend warrior anything. I have made some good progress on the master for the shoulder (will be making 4 casts of it, because I refuse to make 4 identical copies of this for the segments haha)

Here is the progress so far, going to be filling in holes and ad more detailing - Soon I will begin the inner detailing and make a mold for the first time!

And I attached together the mostly built one to a failed earlier attempt and the base of the lower plate to do a size comparison to the chest. Other then adding the little spikey bit at the top .. think it fits pretty well!

 

[Rysjin7717]

Wow!!!! Djinn love all that detail, this definitely blows ya Black Templar out th' water brah keep up th' good work.
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