Seraph77
Active Member
For my next overambitious and extremely time-consuming project, I will be making Dog from Half Life 2.
I would love to build a full-scale Dog, but due to lack of space and practical reasons I will be scaling him to my size with my head located in the chest portion. I couldn’t find very many clear reference photos online but luckily I had access to HL2 on Steam. I took some screenshots and then I drew lines in Paint to count pixels for scaling.
I’ll be starting with his head. I like to use plastics that I can find at the dollar store or somewhere similar. The clear lens would ideally be made on my vacuum forming machine, but I haven’t quite finished it yet. I found some giant googly eyes at the craft store that were the right size. If anyone has a better idea for this I am open to suggestions because the googly eye plastic is easily dented (and it doesn’t pop back out).
I would like to make a working mechanical iris for the eye, but for now I am just using a circular piece of plastic from a plastic plate set that I had left over from the shy guy mask I made. I painted the bowl black and used some silicone to make the weld lines. I also tried some weathering this time by using charcoal black on the white plastic and a brownish (technical term) acrylic paint for the rust on the bowl. I’ll pick up some orange this week to add to the mix. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to apply.
I cut the fins of the head out of foam. I experimented with some foam over the weekend by making a Shovel Knight helmet for my son, and it was really fun! I am definitely going to be using more foam in my builds in the future. I definitely recommend Evil Ted’s YouTube videos for tips on using foam.
For the red eye in the center I painted one side of a clear plastic plate red, cut it out, and glued it to the center of the iris. It only needs to be partially transparent. I will be attaching a white LED or cheap flashlight behind this.
That’s it for now!
I would love to build a full-scale Dog, but due to lack of space and practical reasons I will be scaling him to my size with my head located in the chest portion. I couldn’t find very many clear reference photos online but luckily I had access to HL2 on Steam. I took some screenshots and then I drew lines in Paint to count pixels for scaling.
I’ll be starting with his head. I like to use plastics that I can find at the dollar store or somewhere similar. The clear lens would ideally be made on my vacuum forming machine, but I haven’t quite finished it yet. I found some giant googly eyes at the craft store that were the right size. If anyone has a better idea for this I am open to suggestions because the googly eye plastic is easily dented (and it doesn’t pop back out).
I would like to make a working mechanical iris for the eye, but for now I am just using a circular piece of plastic from a plastic plate set that I had left over from the shy guy mask I made. I painted the bowl black and used some silicone to make the weld lines. I also tried some weathering this time by using charcoal black on the white plastic and a brownish (technical term) acrylic paint for the rust on the bowl. I’ll pick up some orange this week to add to the mix. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to apply.
I cut the fins of the head out of foam. I experimented with some foam over the weekend by making a Shovel Knight helmet for my son, and it was really fun! I am definitely going to be using more foam in my builds in the future. I definitely recommend Evil Ted’s YouTube videos for tips on using foam.
For the red eye in the center I painted one side of a clear plastic plate red, cut it out, and glued it to the center of the iris. It only needs to be partially transparent. I will be attaching a white LED or cheap flashlight behind this.
That’s it for now!