I have been a fan of the movie Stargate for a while, and have recently got into SG-1 and have decided to build my own Jaffa. I am aiming for the SG1 costume in silver, but with the Horus head. I know the Horus guards appear in SG-1 in their copper coloured variants, but I am gonna go for silver as my own version. Managed to find some good reference from auctioned pieces:
This is my first build with foam and worbla so I thought I would test it out by making a small part first; the bracers and hand guards.
I first patterned them in paper, then transferred to foam
These then got sandwiched in Worbla
The important part of these are the relief design, so I decided to see how the worbla would take detail. I turns out black worbla carves very well. I sketched the design in permanent white pencil then scored the lines in. The design was from the best reference photos I could find. I also began to sculpt the raised details from scraps
The edges were then dremelled down and holes drilled for the straps
Everything was then primed with wood glue and given a flat coat of metallic silver. I used a product called goldfinger to paint the gold sections, which gave a great gold colour.
No one likes a clean soldier so next came weathering with a simple black wash into all the details. Overall I am pretty happy with these, just waiting on some elastic straps to pull them together. Some of you guys might know more about these, but was gonna use leather or pleather as a backing to attach the handplates, any info would be great. The helmet has also been pepped in paper and fibre-glassed for strength, so will put up more pics when that moves forward.
This is my first build with foam and worbla so I thought I would test it out by making a small part first; the bracers and hand guards.
I first patterned them in paper, then transferred to foam
These then got sandwiched in Worbla
The important part of these are the relief design, so I decided to see how the worbla would take detail. I turns out black worbla carves very well. I sketched the design in permanent white pencil then scored the lines in. The design was from the best reference photos I could find. I also began to sculpt the raised details from scraps
The edges were then dremelled down and holes drilled for the straps
Everything was then primed with wood glue and given a flat coat of metallic silver. I used a product called goldfinger to paint the gold sections, which gave a great gold colour.
No one likes a clean soldier so next came weathering with a simple black wash into all the details. Overall I am pretty happy with these, just waiting on some elastic straps to pull them together. Some of you guys might know more about these, but was gonna use leather or pleather as a backing to attach the handplates, any info would be great. The helmet has also been pepped in paper and fibre-glassed for strength, so will put up more pics when that moves forward.
I have also started the neck collar which will be foam and worbla, but patterened from a paper pepakura pattern
