Started A Predator Build In May.

[timkatkor]

We are new to building costumes so do not be to bruttle... We started with the paper file for the bio-helmet. I'm biulding two costumes one for me and one for my son. So when I finished with the first bio-helmet I made a latex mold of it to make another one. so the mold came out pretty good. used fiberglass resin and cloth to make the second bio-helmet.

filled in the helmet with body filler and sanded and painted black

My wife then painted weathered gold!!! She did great!!

Add backer Rod for dreads!!!

got some redish gold lens and finished the first helmet

working on armor. been getting lots of ideas and patterns for this Forum.

of course again my wife did the weathering on the foam rubber armor..

starting on hands and feet hope to do this predator justice...
Love to here and suggestions or ideas that could help with this build.
Thx
Tim

 

[davidkraww]

Looking good! Excited to see more

 

[MasterAnubis]

Looks like a good start.  Good to see a latex mold every once and a while too.  Glad that came out for you so well.

The gold bio is coming across really strong.  I'd think hitting it up with more(darker) black in a wash would break it up and make the edges pop more.... giving it a little more depth.  Sponging some black on could also help break up the solid gold feel.   I did my Mask of Anubis solid gold at first and it didn't appeal to me at all.  I ended up with a gold/metallic black scheme. 

One thing I've found out over the years is that if you're going for how you look in pics, you should take a lot of pics of your build as you go.  Then adjust for the pictures.  For me it was being stronger with the contrasting and bolder with the weathering.  That was weird to me at first but makes more sense after you see pictures coming out really good.

-Shawn

 

[cripledpredator]

Nice, very good

 

[timkatkor]

Thanks for looking. still working on armor. Its turning out real good, excited to see it all come together. thanks to everyone for sharing thier patterns and idea they have help us out a lot!!! should have some more pictures to post tomorrow.
Thx
Tim

 

[timkatkor]

here is the rest of the build just in time for halloween!!! thx to this site and members yall helped me out more than yall know!!!!
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very happy with our new predator costumes thx!!!!