StewYZF750
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I think this is the first time I've ever started a thread on therpf so go gentle with me.
Ever since I saw the "Deceived" trailer for SWTOR I've loved the look of these guys:
Particularly this fancy style of helmet/mask:
There was one of these warriors that was given a name in the Deceived book, he was called Adraas and was the Sith Lord that led the fifty Sith warriors that crashed the ship in through the temples walls for the suprise attack, so for this purpose I'll be calling this the "Adraas style" armour.
I made my first attempt at the helmet back in 2009 for a Halloween costume, it was very rough and with the only real reference with being the CGI trailer I didn't make that good a job of it (at that moment in time I didn't even know how to get screen captures so I spent a while in front of my monitor with the trailer on pause.)
The next year after the "Hope" trailer came out I decided to have another go at it, this time there was better reference pictures and I learnt how to do screen caps, this time I got the helmet a bit smaller and a little more accurate.
Okay so call me silly but I got myself hyped about SW:TOR again, and what happens when I get hyped about SW:TOR? I go ahead and start re-making stuff for my costume.
This time I'm more determined to get it right, and I also have to admit that I was jealous of the mask that mywickedarmor made.
So once again I restarted my helmet, in the same style as I always do I start with a rough template:
and copy it onto cardboard to get the basic face shape:
I used a voice changing death eater mask as a template for the top, covered in paper mache:
This gave me these pieces:
Put together form:
This lot was covered in paper mache:
Before being given some coats of resin+sand+prime+resin+sand+prime.
Fast forward (skip some resin and sanding) and it's time for some details:
So, last time I attempted this I discovered that I couldn't paint the fancy swirls very accurately (I didn't have the patience!). So what am I going to do this time. Perhaps I was foolish or perhaps I was taking notice of the fact that there really shouldn't be a timescale on this, I could after all just do this bit by bit and get there eventually one day... so my weapon of choice for the next 10-12 hours of freetime were these:
Did I tell you that I didn't have much patience, and I've always said pepakura looked like too much messing about with bits of paper for me to even attempt it. Well, now I've learnt the patience and skill it takes to cut tiny pieces of paper. Plus I have the numb fingertip to go with the hours of scalpel use.
And I spent hours cutting tiny bits of cardboard and sticking them onto my mask:
Bit by bit I worked my way around the mask:
And eventually it was covered:
After I'd covered it and myself in glue and (crappy timewasting) little bits of cardboard I gave it another coat of resin, before spraying it with primer. It looked okay I thought, the details were still visible, so I added some rub'n' buff before giving it some a black wash with some acrylic paint. I ended up with this:
I'm still waiting for some red paint that I've ordered to be delivered so that I can paint the mouth area and the forehead areas. I'm pleased I've done this, I certainly consider this an improvement for my costume and I've learnt a bit along the way.
Ever since I saw the "Deceived" trailer for SWTOR I've loved the look of these guys:
Particularly this fancy style of helmet/mask:
There was one of these warriors that was given a name in the Deceived book, he was called Adraas and was the Sith Lord that led the fifty Sith warriors that crashed the ship in through the temples walls for the suprise attack, so for this purpose I'll be calling this the "Adraas style" armour.
I made my first attempt at the helmet back in 2009 for a Halloween costume, it was very rough and with the only real reference with being the CGI trailer I didn't make that good a job of it (at that moment in time I didn't even know how to get screen captures so I spent a while in front of my monitor with the trailer on pause.)
The next year after the "Hope" trailer came out I decided to have another go at it, this time there was better reference pictures and I learnt how to do screen caps, this time I got the helmet a bit smaller and a little more accurate.
Okay so call me silly but I got myself hyped about SW:TOR again, and what happens when I get hyped about SW:TOR? I go ahead and start re-making stuff for my costume.
This time I'm more determined to get it right, and I also have to admit that I was jealous of the mask that mywickedarmor made.
So once again I restarted my helmet, in the same style as I always do I start with a rough template:
and copy it onto cardboard to get the basic face shape:
I used a voice changing death eater mask as a template for the top, covered in paper mache:
This gave me these pieces:
Put together form:
This lot was covered in paper mache:
Before being given some coats of resin+sand+prime+resin+sand+prime.
Fast forward (skip some resin and sanding) and it's time for some details:
So, last time I attempted this I discovered that I couldn't paint the fancy swirls very accurately (I didn't have the patience!). So what am I going to do this time. Perhaps I was foolish or perhaps I was taking notice of the fact that there really shouldn't be a timescale on this, I could after all just do this bit by bit and get there eventually one day... so my weapon of choice for the next 10-12 hours of freetime were these:
Did I tell you that I didn't have much patience, and I've always said pepakura looked like too much messing about with bits of paper for me to even attempt it. Well, now I've learnt the patience and skill it takes to cut tiny pieces of paper. Plus I have the numb fingertip to go with the hours of scalpel use.
And I spent hours cutting tiny bits of cardboard and sticking them onto my mask:
Bit by bit I worked my way around the mask:
And eventually it was covered:
After I'd covered it and myself in glue and (crappy timewasting) little bits of cardboard I gave it another coat of resin, before spraying it with primer. It looked okay I thought, the details were still visible, so I added some rub'n' buff before giving it some a black wash with some acrylic paint. I ended up with this:
I'm still waiting for some red paint that I've ordered to be delivered so that I can paint the mouth area and the forehead areas. I'm pleased I've done this, I certainly consider this an improvement for my costume and I've learnt a bit along the way.
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