Ferox
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This whole mess started with me playing SWTOR and seeing the pureblood sith. Which were /awesome/. Whan naturally led me to the conclusion that I had to do this as my second "real" build (first one was an Ahsoka... yay for overconfidence, lol).
It all started with a quick sketch, done at school instead of listening to my maths teacher.
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(Sorry for the bad picture quality, most of them were taken with my phone...)
The biggest point were the facial prosthetics, which took some trial and error. First, I tried using gelatin sculpted straight on my face, which... kind of worked?
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(bonus pic: me at starbucks,lol)
The cheek/chin parts worked out, the eyebrows... not so much. Plus, it was impossible to eat/drink, since the gelatin dried out and hardened. So I figured, why not try latex? Except, at that point, making molds was still scary, so I tried different methods and ended up following a bunch of youtube sfx tutorials, latex-ing stuff directly to my face. Which took some practice, well, the leftover blue latex from my first build came in handy.
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First real test, the shape looked okay. So I ordered some skin-tone latex and spent the time it took to arrive updating the "clothing" part of the costume, which came with a lot of "firsts" on its own. Things like...
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...first time working with leather, and my cat wanted to help, as well as finally using real patterns and a sewing machine. Which is quite difficult if you normally just 'wing it'.But somehow, I managed to get something wearable for my friend's birthday party. Sadly, the only picture of that is a crappy selfie, lol
Well, that certainly looked better than everything I had worn before, so I left the make-up as it was and focused on the cloth parts of the costume, sewing an outer, heavier robe and adding the front sash to the mix. Remember me that spending eight hours hand embroidering something is not a good idea. But it worked and looked good, so things couldn't have been that stupid.
Finally, I dared to take my baby project out for a small convention and got some good pictures taken
But something about the prosthetics still bugged me. It was a pain in the butt to apply and took ages, not to mention that it wasn't /quite/ accurate and clean-looking enough. So I took the challenge and started sculpting, just winging things as per usual. Sculpting clay was too expensive, so I used the play-dough stuff my little brother didn't need anymore. Surprisingly, it worked like a charm. The clay was soft and easy to work with, I didn't even need to MacGyver any sculpting tools!
I made the molds with plaster, which worked better than expected. Sure, there were a "few" air bubbles, but the clay helped smoothing them out after cleaning everything up. The only downside with plaster is that it takes ages to dry completely, so I ended up having to rush with casting the latex pieces in order to get them ready for MCM Hannover, where I wanted to debut the new prosthetics. But thanks to a few all-nighters, I got it done, Yay!
It all started with a quick sketch, done at school instead of listening to my maths teacher.
View attachment 682797
(Sorry for the bad picture quality, most of them were taken with my phone...)
The biggest point were the facial prosthetics, which took some trial and error. First, I tried using gelatin sculpted straight on my face, which... kind of worked?
View attachment 682798
View attachment 682799
(bonus pic: me at starbucks,lol)
The cheek/chin parts worked out, the eyebrows... not so much. Plus, it was impossible to eat/drink, since the gelatin dried out and hardened. So I figured, why not try latex? Except, at that point, making molds was still scary, so I tried different methods and ended up following a bunch of youtube sfx tutorials, latex-ing stuff directly to my face. Which took some practice, well, the leftover blue latex from my first build came in handy.
View attachment 682800
First real test, the shape looked okay. So I ordered some skin-tone latex and spent the time it took to arrive updating the "clothing" part of the costume, which came with a lot of "firsts" on its own. Things like...
View attachment 682801
...first time working with leather, and my cat wanted to help, as well as finally using real patterns and a sewing machine. Which is quite difficult if you normally just 'wing it'.But somehow, I managed to get something wearable for my friend's birthday party. Sadly, the only picture of that is a crappy selfie, lol
Well, that certainly looked better than everything I had worn before, so I left the make-up as it was and focused on the cloth parts of the costume, sewing an outer, heavier robe and adding the front sash to the mix. Remember me that spending eight hours hand embroidering something is not a good idea. But it worked and looked good, so things couldn't have been that stupid.
Finally, I dared to take my baby project out for a small convention and got some good pictures taken
But something about the prosthetics still bugged me. It was a pain in the butt to apply and took ages, not to mention that it wasn't /quite/ accurate and clean-looking enough. So I took the challenge and started sculpting, just winging things as per usual. Sculpting clay was too expensive, so I used the play-dough stuff my little brother didn't need anymore. Surprisingly, it worked like a charm. The clay was soft and easy to work with, I didn't even need to MacGyver any sculpting tools!
I made the molds with plaster, which worked better than expected. Sure, there were a "few" air bubbles, but the clay helped smoothing them out after cleaning everything up. The only downside with plaster is that it takes ages to dry completely, so I ended up having to rush with casting the latex pieces in order to get them ready for MCM Hannover, where I wanted to debut the new prosthetics. But thanks to a few all-nighters, I got it done, Yay!
