Kialna's 2014 Halloween Costume Contest Entry - Smaug the Magnificent

Winchester1701 · Mar 1, 2014

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Really cool

kialna · Mar 1, 2014

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PROGRESSSSS

Painted the pauldrons. Aww yisss.

Complete with missing scale.

Complete armour. It's just 100% done!

Working on the lower jaw....it has been modded by the next pics.

LOOK AT THAT SMILE! :lol

As it turns out, I can see through that slit. With teeth.

Profile shot.

I'm going to need some make-up I think. Hahaha

I'll lower that middle chin-spike tomorrow.

Lunaman · Mar 1, 2014

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YES. So good. It's really really coming together! Can't wait to see what you have planned for the wings!

hakerman · Mar 1, 2014

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Really, really, really impressive!

outatime26 · Mar 1, 2014

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Wow the head looks amazing. You work ridiculously fast!
Such a great design

forklift · Mar 2, 2014

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need to see it all together!

kialna · Mar 2, 2014

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They didn't have any other colour. So...smaug is a smurf now. I'll be sanding the horns outside today (nice weather) but I won't do a lot more, since my hands are painful (regular job) and need rest before I start again monday.

Chevalric · Mar 2, 2014

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This is coming along really nicely! Excellent paintjob on the armour as well. Is that brushwork or do you own an airbrush?

kialna · Mar 2, 2014

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All just with a paintbrush. I use drybrushing like they do on sculptures to paint. I made a tutorial actually...

Chevalric · Mar 2, 2014

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That is really well done. I would not have guessed that this was mostly drybrushing, I haven't really seen it used on such a large scale before.

Cascades · Mar 3, 2014

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Looks brilliant keep it up

kialna · Mar 4, 2014

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Smaug Cosplay:
Head; skull with silicone skin and removable horns:

[x] General shaping of both jaws
[x] creating the skull of both jaws
[x] Sculpt the dragon skin and small horns
[ ] Sculpt the tongue
[x] Sculpt the teeth
[x] mechanism for jaws
[x] Test visibility
[ ] Eyes with LED’s embedded, cast in resin (See Kamui cosplay)
[ ] Mold and Cast the skin in Silicone (dragonskin)
[ ] LED’s in throat (orange/red/yellow)
[ ] Flabby ‘skin’ at the lower jaw to cover neck.
[x] Sculpt the horns (Possibly in Worbla. Seems to work well, make them removable. Magnets or screws.)
[ ] Padding
[ ]Assemble and test

Chest; Scalemail shirt with breastplate and pauldrons.

[x] Create breastplate, including coins
[x] Create pauldrons
[x] Make a pattern of the pieces which will need scalemail
[ ] Make the mail
[ ] Sew the chainmail to the shirt
[ ] Connect pauldrons and chestplate with straps
[ ] check if straps disappear in the scalemail (small threads)

Arms & Hands; Latex talons/claws with worbla bracers, connect to wings.

[x] Sculpt claws
[x] Mold claws
[x] Cast claws in latex
[ ] Paint claws, possibly airbrush.
[x] Create bracers
[ ] Figure out where to put the connecting piece for the wings.

Waist: Belt with tail attatched and scraps of fabric for movability.

[x] Create belt
[ ] Create the animatronic tail
[ ] Connect electronics, do not forget an on/off switch.
[ ] Program arduino to snake-like movements
[ ] Test the tail
[ ] Make the tail dragon-y with foam filling and leatherlike skin. Maybe pleather.
[ ] connect the tail to the belt
[ ] Make sure the tail can be tucked in somewhere, for sitting purposes. Or easily removable.
[ ] Test tail again.
[ ] Add fabrics in black and maybe white, scorch them for fire-y effects
[ ] If necessary, add extra straps.

Legs and feet; Trousers that look like I have dragon legs, with the digitigrade look. And dragon feet.

[x] See the tutorial at: Matrices.net
[x] Make patterns
[x] Sew trousers together
[x] add foam
[x] Decide for reptile pleather/leather or create a pattern.
[x] Find comfortable shoes
[x] Create leather/pleather boots
[ ] Use leather layers to create the talon-look used for the hands
[x] Again, refer to the tutorial.

Wings; Framework that opens with arm movement.

[ ] Follow tutorial for articulating framework on indestructibles.
[ ] When framework is done, plot out possibilities for dragonwings
[ ] Use pleather or a thin layer of silicone (with texture) for the wing membrane.
[ ] Paint the wings accordingly.
[ ] Make a pleather/leather cape, long enough to cover the framework, short enough to showcase most of the tail
[ ] Add spikes to the cape
[ ] Paint cape with the by now familiar paintscheme.

I updated the list and calculated where I stand. At this point I've hit the 33,33% mark. This means I'm one third on the way to completion!

kialna · Mar 8, 2014

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It's not programmed yet at all. This is just the raw tail. I also bought supplies for the wings.

Right now, this weekend will be less active, because the last two days at work killed me, and when I woke up everything hurt. So I need to chill out. Tomorrow I will create some patterns for the legs, close the lower jaw a bit (for the throat) and start sculpting the tongue maybe. It depends a little on how my body reacts.

Still no Scalemail. I contacted the ringlord, and they said the package hadn't returned to them, so it's probably still travelling. I figured customs might be wary of 3000 jumprings and 1500 scales...

maverick07 · Mar 8, 2014

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This is looking great I'm impressed with the detail so far keep it up I look forward to the progress

kialna · Mar 9, 2014

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I started working on the tongue. However, before I got to fill in the sides and make the tongue higher/bigger, my arm started complaining.

And since I need my arm for my dayjob, I quit for today.

LeMaxim · Mar 10, 2014

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Wow, just wow!
Haven't checked this thread for a few days but now that I did my jaw dropped.

Jathoris · Mar 13, 2014

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Good lord this is an incredible build. :0)

TurboTrey03 · Mar 13, 2014

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Wooww, just went through this whole thread..AWESOME JOB!

Nial · Mar 14, 2014

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This is mighty fine work and thanks for the tutorial description on the paintwork. Can't wait to see it finished. Be very proud oof your self. =0

kialna · Mar 16, 2014

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I started strapping up the armour.

Here's a video with explaination and me wearing it.

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