My First Prop! Cheshire's mask from Young Justice.

Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been amazed at all the incredible work that gets posted here on the RPF and finally decided to get my feet wet. My wife wanted to dress as the character Cheshire and liked the design from Young Justice, so I set on the path to create the mask first. This was a project with a lot of firsts for me, sculpting from reference, molding, casting, bondo-ing, finishing, painting.....everything really. Its completely from scratch and really my interpretation of the 3d form from the 2d show. Let me know what you think, or if anyone is interested in the process I used, though totally amateur, I'd be glad to update with more pics and blabber on about the hours and hours I toiled away making this. Thanks for your attention~!

-Vashishio




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That is an amazingly clean job! How did you go about making this? Are you going to do the rest of the costume?

That is a thing of beauty. Way to get your feet wet, Vash! Wow. Well done.

Thanks guys!

ArkyGrimm, I did a cheesy quick costume to be ready for Halloween, but I've got a lot of work to do on it, yet.

As far as how I made the mask, I sculpted it in plastalina clay on a mannequin head based on two screencaps(one facing and one profile) of the mask from the animation, molded the finished but relatively rough sculpt with Rebound 25, cast it out of Smooth Cast 300, then set about adding bondo and sanding, adding more bondo and doing more sanding, and so on until I had achieved a form that was pleasing. Then i primed and painted it basically.

There were a lot of extra rounds of bondo, spot putty, complete overhauls of the form and filling and filing to get it to the end product, and I took a lot of pics of the process, but I'm at work at the moment and don't have access to them. If you'd like, I can post a basic rundown with pics of the progression of the sculpt and casting /finishing of the mask.

Vashishio said:

Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been amazed at all the incredible work that gets posted here on the RPF and finally decided to get my feet wet. My wife wanted to dress as the character Cheshire and liked the design from Young Justice, so I set on the path to create the mask first. This was a project with a lot of firsts for me, sculpting from reference, molding, casting, bondo-ing, finishing, painting.....everything really. Its completely from scratch and really my interpretation of the 3d form from the 2d show. Let me know what you think, or if anyone is interested in the process I used, though totally amateur, I'd be glad to update with more pics and blabber on about the hours and hours I toiled away making this. Thanks for your attention~!

-Vashishio




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I'm very interested in how you made this mask. Please help

CyberZero, I'll put together a write-up on what I did soon. Thanks for your interest in my project!