Blood Wolf
New Member
The cogs...are they actual cogs or are they print outs? Very awsome in the chest piece. Will actually refrence your build when I get around to mine.
My Kroenen Costume Project!
- Thread starter Tigerham
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Hey Blood Wolf, they are actual cogs.
Basically I trimmed card slightly bigger than the holes and painted them black. Then got various sized flat cogs (without stems or pins) and superglued them to the card as background.
Then got cogs WITH pins/stems and slitly pierced them into the card just enough so they still stuck out and as there were various sized pins it allowed them to rise above each other giving the depth. I then superglued the underside of the card where the stems had poked through to make them stiff and solid (as can be).
I then cut small sections from a kettle cable (from a kettle lead kinda thing), 3 for each card (3 for each edge of the card, so dont put cogs right to the edge as you will need this space to superglue the lead sections to the card). I painted the lead sections black and superglued them to the 3 edges of the card (topside, cog side).
Then I used, as this is what I had at the time but is very strong, a star case (for those who dont know what one is it's a clear plastic case to protect star wars figures still on their cardbacks) and cut out 2 sections, one for each hole and superglued it to the chest armour, bottom side underneath the holes.
Finally I superglued the topside of the kettle leads to the underneath of the clear plastic windows and presto. The kettle leads allow a perfect distance between the cogs card and the chest plate giving the illusion of depth.
Hope this helps.
Basically I trimmed card slightly bigger than the holes and painted them black. Then got various sized flat cogs (without stems or pins) and superglued them to the card as background.
Then got cogs WITH pins/stems and slitly pierced them into the card just enough so they still stuck out and as there were various sized pins it allowed them to rise above each other giving the depth. I then superglued the underside of the card where the stems had poked through to make them stiff and solid (as can be).
I then cut small sections from a kettle cable (from a kettle lead kinda thing), 3 for each card (3 for each edge of the card, so dont put cogs right to the edge as you will need this space to superglue the lead sections to the card). I painted the lead sections black and superglued them to the 3 edges of the card (topside, cog side).
Then I used, as this is what I had at the time but is very strong, a star case (for those who dont know what one is it's a clear plastic case to protect star wars figures still on their cardbacks) and cut out 2 sections, one for each hole and superglued it to the chest armour, bottom side underneath the holes.
Finally I superglued the topside of the kettle leads to the underneath of the clear plastic windows and presto. The kettle leads allow a perfect distance between the cogs card and the chest plate giving the illusion of depth.
Hope this helps.
So here's the story so far. Got some adjustments to do on the back as there's a bit of slack around the bottom of the zip area (so will take some off the sides and re-eye;et the side). The arm knifes and sheafs are almost complete, just awaiting some straps and then the belt and maybe the sword sheafs tho not got any swords to go in them at the mo.
Well done sir! What paint/technique did you use to paint the mask black?
Cheers Soulinertia. For the mask I sanded and primed the whole thing then sprayed Tamiya Acrylic black gloss over the whole thing. After about 4 coats and I was happy with the finish I then applied the Tamiya silver matt spray to the mouth piece. When that was dry I applied a combination of orange and dark red/brown acrylic paint, dabbing it to give the rust effect followed by silver dabbs from a dry brush lightly over the orange and brown. I repeated this about 3 times until it had a slight texture to it and was giving off the right effect.
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Max Replica
Well-Known Member
What did you do to weather the leather like that? It looks great.
Apologies if you already mentioned it, but skimming through I didn't see.
Apologies if you already mentioned it, but skimming through I didn't see.
Hey Max Replica no problem dude. I basically used a water based black paint and brushed it over smudging it ocassionally and thats it. Worked a treat and have used it throughout all the leather I'm using for the costume. I used real leather off-cuts for the costume so not sure it makes a difference on the material with the water based paint or not.
To finish off the effect I coated the whole thing in a gloss acrylic laquer (Tamiya) to give it a sheen as the gloss slightly soaks into the leather which is good as you dont want the leather to be too gleamy. It finishes off the leather really nicely and gives it that extra tough and authentic look.
Hope this helps.
To finish off the effect I coated the whole thing in a gloss acrylic laquer (Tamiya) to give it a sheen as the gloss slightly soaks into the leather which is good as you dont want the leather to be too gleamy. It finishes off the leather really nicely and gives it that extra tough and authentic look.
Hope this helps.
Blood Wolf
New Member
What did you do to attcah the straps?
lol, superglue BloodWolf! It's hard as nails dude. I've used it on alot of things. Tidy, clear and ultra strong.
One bit leads to another so did the weapons and their sheafs n holsters. Just got to do a finishing coat on the swords.
Excuse the bad quality pic, will get a decent one up when fnished the weapons.
One bit leads to another so did the weapons and their sheafs n holsters. Just got to do a finishing coat on the swords.
Excuse the bad quality pic, will get a decent one up when fnished the weapons.
DivineHeresy
Sr Member
Awesome work!
Very, very impressive.
Very, very impressive.
Eveningarwen
Well-Known Member
my jealousy at the awesomeness of this build is through the roof. Ugh. I hate talented people. :lol
Seriously though, everything is looking awesome but I'm majorly digging that chest piece.
Seriously though, everything is looking awesome but I'm majorly digging that chest piece.
LOVE Kroenen! Super creepy yet awesomeness rolled into one. Your costume not only is capturing this character very well but you personally in the costume seem to be capturing Kroenen very well!
Cheers chaps. Bloood Wolf for the weathering I used first silver acrylc all over the mouthpiece. Then got some dark red/brown acrylic and started dabbing it alond the edging of the top and fading it out towards the bottom. Then did the same but lighter with orange acrylic. Once this had dried I used a dry brush with very light dabbs of silver to go over bits of the brown and orange, just dabbing with the dry brush.
Just repeated this prcoess about three times until I was happy with the results. The more times you do it the more texture you get from the dried layers of dabbed paint but you dont wanna over do it otherwise it'll go beyond the look ya after.
Hope this makes sense.
the same "Rust" effect can be gained by holding a rattle can sprayer down just enought to spit drops of paint around - did this for a haunted house once where we had to create a bloodied up lab scene where there was a corpse at a desk and blood all over the computer monitor
but this costume looks great - i only wish that the mask had the backing on it for a full enclosure.
