Re: Steampunk Ironman Helmet WIP ..finally some GEARS!
Thanks Fiscos, sq10e, Magneto, khazzirh and digital509! Just having seen this one small part painted up makes me really excited to see what the whole thing will look like!
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pRoJectEarth7, you all are doing a
GREAT job with the Iron Patriot! You are serious masters of our craft! :love
What Disney kids toy did you pull those gears out of my friend? I really love how open and heavy they look at the same time...like steam train gears. I have had no luck finding good gears.. all the ones I have found are closed, solid plastic and look terrible.
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Man, I've spent three days trying to find a picture online of what the broken toy I had looked like... I swear it was a Disney Cars 2 toy with two small foreign police cars on a circular platform that spun around via a wind-up gear set. However, I've not found ANYTHING that looks like it online. Sorry... If I would known it was odd and hard to look up, I would have documented it better. the other BIG gear (originally yellow) was from a speak-n-spell and is only about 1/2 of a full gear... but worked for my purpose. :cool
Regarding the holes... I sorta cheated there. Yes, the big holes were in the blue Disney gears, but I also used a drill and created more of them to make them more interesting and 'cool' looking. For that matter, you could do the very same to any of the solid plastic gears you already have. :love
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In addition to finishing up the gear detail for the recessed area on the jaw...
...I have been working hard to finish up a 'cast-able' jaw tubing piece. That's meant lots of bondo, sanding, model putty, more sanding, model gluing, tube-bending, more sanding, etc.
I have everything but the blue tips glued and filled for casting. I think I'm going to further cheat, but making both side from one casting. They are so close to the same, I don't think this will be an issue... (compared to figuring out HOW to cast them... which is Digitizit's challenge).
Here's what it looks like currently:
And from the front...
In addition to the tubes, I've also been back at the eye-lights. I've settled on the LED lights that I sanded into flat rectangular shapes with an angled end. These have been each removed from their string, and then painted with black latex paint on the top (outside surface), sides and back. I'm also moving from 6 lights (in the original rig) to 8 LED lights in this configuration.
The sad part is that I will need to completely re-do the one I had done, as NONE of the lights (over 5 different types) produced the SAME blue/white light as the original ones do... That means, I couldn't match them. And will have to end up re-do the lens I had done to match the second one I'm working on now. :unsure
Well, that's it for tonight! Take care, everyone!
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