True daemoon prince

[DarkJester]

not really sure if this is the place to put this thread but, ive been a member of the obscurus crusade with a few other people around here for about 2 years now and have made a couple costumes. well this year i was in the planning/design/helmet pepping stage of my dark apostle

when a friend of mine stopped by and said "dude youve been a grey knight chaplain

and a word bearer,

why not do a daemon prince?"

so my project went from this

to the image i posted above, complete with custom made digitigrade stilts,

and a handmade muscle suit, the plan is to have this ready by may in time for A-kon in dallas, good thing income tax season starts in a coule weeks, becasuse this is not only gonna be expensive but also time consuming, im gonna use the process of pepping my few armour pieces and then skinning them in foam and sealing that with a thin coat of rondo for a smooth finish on the paint job without 200 lb of armour weighing me down. i'll be starting this costume in a few days with the building of the stilts ( to me the hardest part since its the only part i've never done, so this will definitely be a very busy first half of 2013, for me i'll definitely be keeping you guys updated on what's progressed and how everything is coming, thanks for listening, btw the stilts picture came with the instructable on how to make them, i havent made them yet and am not trying to pass off this guys work as my own, just wanted to clarify, i will be making these stiltsto go under this armour

 

[sq10e]

A giant armored daemon, impressive goal, look forward to progress!

 

[DarkJester]

was gonna wait and start with the legs but decided to build it like i would any other suit of armour and start with the chest and work outwards from there so heres my v1 chest,

i may be remaking this depending on how out of scale it looks after i have made my stilts, speaking of stilts i shaped the cradles out of 5mm sintra, and have ordered the metal bars for the structures, and have cranked out the base for my gauntlets

still unsure yet how im gonna do the daemon head and neck area, but i do know that the face will be articulated like the halloween masks, and ill have slightly more armour than the picture above suggests

 

[DarkJester]

Re: True daemon prince

i was going to wait until i had the materials to build my stilts and then scale everything from there but, i had a monster bout of insomnia this weekend (96 hours no sleep) so i grabbed my foam xacto, ruler, rolls of foam and started cutting, anyway here are the results of my crazed building

the entire torso and arms minus the ab cover and here are the shins

starting detail work as you can see on one of the shoulders, buying more foam today so i can continue, hopefully ill get started on the stilts by the end of this month (or my timetable is gonna have to be scrapped entirely) anyway hope you guys like the build so far, and big thanks to hasenbrau for awesome templates, btw if this one works out ill definitely be a foam convert (satan is spelled p-e-p-a-k-u-r-a)