Blaxmyth
Sr Member
Re: What's on your workbench?
Thorsoli is a pretty hard act to follow, so bear with my humble efforts. Having just tidied my workbench, I covered it with wood shavings from my old hand plane, then covered all that with some of my mountain of part-finished projects.
From left to right:
Torso parts for my customised Stormtrooper armour, which I have re sculpted and resized to fit me. This set is made with two or three layers of glass cloth with polyester resin, but I may do another set with a thicker layer of glass mat.
Gimli axe made from plywood and pine. I couldn’t justify $33 for a chamfer bit for my router, so sharpened my old plane blade. Felt great to make real shavings with a hand tool – probably been twenty years since I used it instead of a power tool.
Uruk Hai helmet from a pep file I created. I stiffen the exterior of the pep with two coats of polyester, then apply release wax on the inside, then rondo and fibreglass the interior. This lets me peel off the card revealing a rondo’ed helmet which sands easily and takes body filler well. This one distorted slightly, ending up a bit wide, but it’ll be fine for display. It’s not really wearable anyway, so I’ve reshaped the mesh and will make the next one bigger by 10%.
Foam top hat from a pattern from Lost Wax in Aussie. I bought the plan after seeing his YouTube steampunk clips. The plan is to cover it with thin foam rectangles, add epoxy rivets, then paint it black and finish with Rub ‘n’ Buff brass or copper. Fun build and will go well with my pith helmet collection.
More torso parts for the trooper armour. Stiffened with resin and awaiting their interior coat of wax prior to fibreglassing. I’ve altered the peps so that they end up with a flat ‘skirt’ which I staple to a piece of MDF while the resin sets hard. It means that the parts don't warp when they are fibreglassed, and although there is a small amount more pepping needed, the result is well worth it. Previous efforts were badly warped until I thought of doing them this way.
Hellboy bust, pepped, stiffened with resin, rondo and fibreglass inside. Had to mix some chopped fibreglass mat into the rondo to strengthen to ears and bun. Slowly finishing it with bondo, rounding off the facets in line with the classic Mignola look.
Thorsoli is a pretty hard act to follow, so bear with my humble efforts. Having just tidied my workbench, I covered it with wood shavings from my old hand plane, then covered all that with some of my mountain of part-finished projects.
From left to right:
Torso parts for my customised Stormtrooper armour, which I have re sculpted and resized to fit me. This set is made with two or three layers of glass cloth with polyester resin, but I may do another set with a thicker layer of glass mat.
Gimli axe made from plywood and pine. I couldn’t justify $33 for a chamfer bit for my router, so sharpened my old plane blade. Felt great to make real shavings with a hand tool – probably been twenty years since I used it instead of a power tool.
Uruk Hai helmet from a pep file I created. I stiffen the exterior of the pep with two coats of polyester, then apply release wax on the inside, then rondo and fibreglass the interior. This lets me peel off the card revealing a rondo’ed helmet which sands easily and takes body filler well. This one distorted slightly, ending up a bit wide, but it’ll be fine for display. It’s not really wearable anyway, so I’ve reshaped the mesh and will make the next one bigger by 10%.
Foam top hat from a pattern from Lost Wax in Aussie. I bought the plan after seeing his YouTube steampunk clips. The plan is to cover it with thin foam rectangles, add epoxy rivets, then paint it black and finish with Rub ‘n’ Buff brass or copper. Fun build and will go well with my pith helmet collection.
More torso parts for the trooper armour. Stiffened with resin and awaiting their interior coat of wax prior to fibreglassing. I’ve altered the peps so that they end up with a flat ‘skirt’ which I staple to a piece of MDF while the resin sets hard. It means that the parts don't warp when they are fibreglassed, and although there is a small amount more pepping needed, the result is well worth it. Previous efforts were badly warped until I thought of doing them this way.
Hellboy bust, pepped, stiffened with resin, rondo and fibreglass inside. Had to mix some chopped fibreglass mat into the rondo to strengthen to ears and bun. Slowly finishing it with bondo, rounding off the facets in line with the classic Mignola look.
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