Hi everybody!!!
Thank you all A LOT for your comments!!!
Ben, I did some stop-mo during my time at academy.. Man that was time consuming and hard. :facepalmI know all the problems that come with it, so I admire your will and patience! Keep up the good work!
Joberg:
Well, I'm back from the holidays, but I spent my off time wisely. Most of the time I was reading through threads at Propsummit. What a page, I found so much cool stuff!
Now that the car segment is done it's time to prepare for the next one: "The toilet". One third of the film takes place in an abandoned toilet, where another character is introduced - "The cop". Our friendly drug dealer and the cop cross paths, and things get interesting.
So - I need a cop costume. Naturally, the first thing I thought of were police men from Blade Runner. I went over to Propsummit and found everything I could about them. Wonderful guys over there dug up so much stuff a long time ago, so I basically just stole their knowledge. :lol
This is one of the cops:
I searched throughout the web, and contacted some people, and I ordered some of the parts of the costume. I'm still waiting for some info on sinisalo armor vac-pulls, and nobody still replied about the force and police 995 badges. I might end up making them myself.
I always kinda thought our cop should be some kind of highway patrol/motorcycle policeman. And who would have guessed:
There are some in Blade Runner! This is a behind the scenes photo, they don't even appear in the film! That's really obscure stuff!
I learned their helmets are ww2 M-5 flak helmets painted white. Those are brutally expensive these days.
I had some old motorbike helmet at home so I figured it could be a good base:
I took it apart, sanded it and primed it:
I made a clay positive of the ear flaps:
This is probably a job that would be best done with vacuum forming, but I never built myself a vacformer.. One day maybe. I decided I'll make a silicone mold and then fiberglass the two positives. I must say that it's really hard and expensive to buy silicone here in Croatia. I have an option to order it by mail, but that is way out of my budget. So what I use is a plain caulking silicone (for sealing windows):
Look, I'll be honest. It sucks most of the time. I'll definitely have to sand the hell out of fiberglass positives. But for around 5$ I can't complain, right?
The main problem is that it's too thick. I did try to thin it with a hundred different solvents with no success. I found out that people use "Naphta", but I found nothing similar here.
Well ok, it's drying now and we'll see how it turned out tomorrow.
It's good to be back!
See ya!:thumbsup