Ozymandius Raiders Idol (Slightly aged)

[Mr. Nagata]

As the first official recipient of one of these gorgeous 24K gold plated idols, I thought I would post a couple pictures. I used a combo of black primer (applied and wiped off) and frosted glass matte spray (also applied and wiped off in certain areas) to give a slight aged effect. It was absolutely beautiful before my weathering, but I like the slightly antique look personally as it looks a little more like an ancient artifact.

I think Oz's sculpt is absolutely beautiful. The glass eyes are perfectly set and the whole thing is totally seamless. It's also SUPER heavy, and I didn't even get the weighted version. The plating adds significant weight on it own.

Just a quick word about the plating. It is really something else. I've owned a vac-metalized idol before and effect is quite different. It's not really something you can see in photographs, but vac-metalizing applies the metal really evenly in the cracks and recesses and everything looks pretty equally shiny. The effect doesn't look quite like real metal, IMO. But with plating, there is some roughness in the recesses where the buffing wheel can't get to and there's also some variations in hues (copperish to even silverish) in the various undercuts. It's unmistakably metal and it's cold to the touch.

All in all, Oz did a fantastic job with this piece and I couldn't be happier. The other folks who ordered these are certainly in for a treat.

 

[nick daring]

Oh man that's nice.

I'm a big fan of the aged look over the pristine factory made look for something like this.

It's also nice to have such durable finish to due your weathering on. You can just wipe it off if you don't like the effect and start again.

Nick

 

[Mr. Nagata]

Thanks! Yeah, it's super easy because the finish is bare metal, with no lacquer coating or anything. So I can just wipe off the weathering if I don't like it. It's also real gold, so it won't tarnish.

 

[whoever]

Damn nice job. I can't bring myself to do that to mine at such a price point, but boy does your's look nice.

 

[MooMooEgg]

Man, that's so beautiful. Wish I got in on the run :facepalm

 

[planet]

looks nice. did you photoshop the pic? It has the reduced noise look when all the edges
look smooth. Just wondering

 

[Mr. Nagata]

I used photoshop to adjust the levels and apply a black vignette to darken the black cloth it was sitting on. It has very little noise because I used a ton of soft light coming from the top and shot it at a very low ISO.

 

[planet]

I have played with the reduced noise a ton . You just see it when its that round and smooth. You got out all the noise man cool pic

 

[Moviefreak]

Ok... That 24k plated idol might be my top dream prop
If I had to pick one replica prop, besides a CR 1978 Superman costume, this would top my list!

Hope to get one one day

 

[nathang1234]

you better set up some booby traps so no one takes it!:lol

 

[Michael Bergeron]

Beautiful! Would LOVE to get my hands on a plated idol. One of my dream props. :thumbsup