The Emperor's Champion

[Fabricator Djinn]

Sup RPF. For my first PAX I wanted to do something interesting, so I decided to take another look at my Black Templar.

I decided to turn this:

Into this:

I won't have pep files for the changes so I'm going to be scratchbuilding most of the new stuff. I never properly catalog my stuff here so here goes.

Starting on the boots tonight, figure that will be pretty simple. Not going to do the wonky pointed sabatons, probably more of a rounded style, but we'll see how it turns out. Will post pics in a bit.



I'm pretty excited to be working on my own suit again =P

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Well, after lots of spacing out and trying different stuff I settled on something I like for the boots. Ended up freehanding the patterns and stuff for it, it is really ghetto right now, unsanded and unpainted, the edges are uneven and the screws holding it in place are placeholders that will end up being something else.

BUT HEY THE SHAPE IS THERE. It also fits pretty well into the shin guard, fills it out a lot more.

Now to take it all apart and make patterns for the other boot =P The entire thing is made from Styrene trash cans.

 

[Tyr]

After seeing your initial BT build I can't wait to see the finished Champion.
The boot is a great indication of how amazing the rest will be.
Subscribed and eagerly watching.

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Well, I finished the second boot and threw a coat of flat black on it. Need to do a little filling and sanding on the bottom and whatnot, but otherwise its a couple coats of paint away from being done. Though.. that front lip is a little long, I might trim that back.


SCA is having a Warbands event this weekend, so I wont be able to work on it for a couple days.. but the shoulder is the next project.

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Randomly decided to procrastinate on moving and start on the helmet pictured here.

I pulled up DOW and looked around the Firestorm over Kaurava mod, they had a pretty sweet Emperors champion model, so I ripped the helmet from it and got to unfolding. It was a pretty low res helm, and I took off the laurels (will add later), but the general shape came out pretty good. After a lot of unfolding and size tinkering, I pepped it up and came out with this.

A lot of work to do on it after it has been resined - lots of edges to smooth out and bondo to use, but I think this will make a really good base for the helm, its got those awesome sinister eyes.
Hell yeah.

 

[Yodajammies]

I'm diggin the boots. Great idea screwin em into the soles.

 

[chimmera30]

great start on this build!

 

[Jasco]

looking good!!

 

[Boomer]

The helmet is looking amazing. Considering how tall a marine is supposed to be you've pulled off human sized perfectly.

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Thanks for the comments guys! The helmet I initially made ended up being a bit too large, and I was forced to remake it. The new helm might be too small (?), or I just have a long face and will have to modify the design to hide my entire head.

Life goes on I suppose. Might even just end up using the pepped helm as a template for a scratchbuilt one once I get it closer to the shape I want/fitted right.
Probably something along the lines of the rebreather I built for the suit initially(pic below)

Cut out or otherwise replace that front pointed section with a plastic version of it, and build the bottom of it so there is a chin section.. hmm..

Well whatever, I'll figure something out.


Edit:: Well, the resin dried enough for me to throw it on and take a picture to show the size. The helm itself is too short to hide my chin, but I plan to build up the bottom of the faceguard to cover that, also possibly add more padding to the chest so it doesnt sit quite so low.

Aside from the helm not covering the bottom part of my face, how does it look in proportion to the rest of the gear shown?

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Well, here are a few pics of my first attempt at extending the helms bottom part. It isnt finished, nor is it symmetrical.. but I like the look of the shape so far.
Will be continuing to scratch my head and cut things after this, but I thought I would throw it up for scrutiny and a second opinion.

Creative license is fun!

 

[Tyr]

Helmet looks great.
I wouldn't even have noticed that it wasn't symmetrical had you not mentioned it.

 

[TheAdama]

I'm always impressed when people can work with costumes scaled the way these are(as in frikkin' massive) and make them look good. Really nice work so far.

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Thanks for the compliments guys! Hoping I can do the champ proper justice.
That being said, I made a little.. chin armor.. part.. to make the bottom part look more.. armor like.
Anyways here it is.

Now to do the top part!

 

[Kommissar]

nice work man,
also: glad your posting here!

 

[Zaxmon]

Keep it coming!

 

[Utherpend]

Good work and the results from the first one are impressive.

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Well, got off my ass today and started the slow process of smoothing out the helmet part with bondo. God is it going to be a lot of work to get smooth, that low res model sucked =P
I also modified the front bit of the helm a bit, pulled the tip of the nose back a tad, I like the look of it a lot better.

Sanding sanding sanding.. bondoing bondoing bondoing

 

[Fabricator Djinn]

Eh, small update. After another run of bondo and a lot of hand sanding, it was finally clean enough to throw a base coat on.

Well ok I may have just wanted to see what it looked like in one color, but its getting pretty close.

Opinions?

 

[Kommissar]

yep, gonna need to rise up the collar like we've discussed before.
the helmet itself is looking great.