Insane muadib
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Hey folks
I am working on getting into the prop-making and costuming hobby/profession, and I'm putting this here to get some advice from you folks who have so much experience.
To start with I am posting at this stage because I have come upon a issue that I am not sue what to do about, but here is my progress so far.
The overall purpose of this project is to produce a Silicon Mold that I can cast multiple fiberglass copies of this suit out of. This is because I want to produce at least 2 of these (one for me, one for a Child's Play auction in July) and I will be following a method learned from following Volpin's website.
To start I had some issues working from the wonderful art images that exist of the HEV suit as they don't all keep the same scale for the suit. So I decided to work from the PEP model done by Nugget, Loess, and (Null).exe. I rescaled many of the pieces to the proper size for myself. I am about 6'2" and round 190lbs for reference to you folks, and here is what I got to in the end.
Distal Arm
Upper Leg
Torso Back
Torso Front
Lower Leg
Upper Arm
From this stage I went and produced some blueprints from the PEP pieces that I then transferred to MDF. I then went and cut out the MDF form for the lower arm only to realize I was doing it wrong. I was trying to get far too much of my detail from the foam and ended up just getting a lumpy mess.
This is what the frame looked like originally.
I ended up tossing out that frame after building it with pink foam and Smooth-cast 60D.
Then I went on to cut out the Upper Arm and Lower leg from 1/2" MDF. to assemble them into a proper form.
Following that I used pink foam to build p the volume of the form and then carved it down using a coping saw into the general form. Then I sand it down with my radial sander to get a nice rough to work from.
This is a view of the upper arm before I went to town with the coping saw and sander. Following that I threw some Smooth-Cast 60D on it to give it a nice durable shell and protect it from the next step. But this is where I ran into a odd issue.
View 1
View 2
The above piece is covered with a single pass of Bondo. In view 2 you can see the issue. There is a bubble that was formed with the Smooth-cast. I can tell that this is formed by the reaction from the Resin, but I am not sure if this is just a mixing error on my part. Does everyone have this issue?
Here is a close-up of the area:
The upper portion looks the way it does because I attempted to cut it away with my box cutter.
All right that is all for this week, but I will probably post my weekend progress on Monday night though, hope you all like this and follow along.
I am working on getting into the prop-making and costuming hobby/profession, and I'm putting this here to get some advice from you folks who have so much experience.
To start with I am posting at this stage because I have come upon a issue that I am not sue what to do about, but here is my progress so far.
The overall purpose of this project is to produce a Silicon Mold that I can cast multiple fiberglass copies of this suit out of. This is because I want to produce at least 2 of these (one for me, one for a Child's Play auction in July) and I will be following a method learned from following Volpin's website.
To start I had some issues working from the wonderful art images that exist of the HEV suit as they don't all keep the same scale for the suit. So I decided to work from the PEP model done by Nugget, Loess, and (Null).exe. I rescaled many of the pieces to the proper size for myself. I am about 6'2" and round 190lbs for reference to you folks, and here is what I got to in the end.
Distal Arm
Upper Leg
Torso Back
Torso Front
Lower Leg
Upper Arm
From this stage I went and produced some blueprints from the PEP pieces that I then transferred to MDF. I then went and cut out the MDF form for the lower arm only to realize I was doing it wrong. I was trying to get far too much of my detail from the foam and ended up just getting a lumpy mess.
This is what the frame looked like originally.
I ended up tossing out that frame after building it with pink foam and Smooth-cast 60D.
Then I went on to cut out the Upper Arm and Lower leg from 1/2" MDF. to assemble them into a proper form.
Following that I used pink foam to build p the volume of the form and then carved it down using a coping saw into the general form. Then I sand it down with my radial sander to get a nice rough to work from.
This is a view of the upper arm before I went to town with the coping saw and sander. Following that I threw some Smooth-Cast 60D on it to give it a nice durable shell and protect it from the next step. But this is where I ran into a odd issue.
View 2
The above piece is covered with a single pass of Bondo. In view 2 you can see the issue. There is a bubble that was formed with the Smooth-cast. I can tell that this is formed by the reaction from the Resin, but I am not sure if this is just a mixing error on my part. Does everyone have this issue?
Here is a close-up of the area:
The upper portion looks the way it does because I attempted to cut it away with my box cutter.
All right that is all for this week, but I will probably post my weekend progress on Monday night though, hope you all like this and follow along.
