![]() ![]() ![]() The gauntlets made for an interesting build with their overwhelming volume of details. Here's the bicep and thigh rings as well as the left shoulder bit all painted up and ready for molding: There are also rings around the thighs just above the knees, so I cut one of them from MDF as well. The left arm would only need the shoulder bit and the bicep band. Then I clamp them in place and wait for the resin to finish curing: Since I don't enough time (or hands) to stand around holding all of these things in the curve that I want, the next step is to lay them inside a piece of plywood cylinder I had laying around: When the resin had kicked just enough to pull it out of the mold without falling apart, I pulled the pieces and bent them to the curve I needed: Molding pieces with such a curve is a massive pain in the buttocks, so I decided to cheat a little bit and make them flat. The problem is that the shoulder and chest parts all have a curve to them. After careful study, I decided I could make all twelve of the bronze colored parts out of only four unique pieces: The right arm also has a series of repeating parts. Having made a mold for the neck piece and the little riblets, I cast copies of them as well and started laying them out as they would appear on the costume: Here you can see the nasty mess on the inside: Here's an early lighting test using EL wire: I made the little greeblie details separate castings:įor the health tube, I cooked up a sheet of blue-tinted acrylic and bent it to fit. Here's the rubber jacket mold and fiberglass mothermold:Īnd here's the first casting out of the mold. Then I sculpted the large back piece in clay with a few found items thrown in: They're essentially just six unique pieces repeated six times, so I only had to make one set of prototypes: It was made from a piece of acrylic tube, a piece of a plywood cylinder, some PVC pipe, and oodles of scraps of sheet styrene in various thicknesses.įor a while I was even doing a half-decent job of keeping a neat(ish) workspace for this build:Īfter the neck piece was done, I made the little riblet details for the chest. This means I absolutely had to build the rest of the RIG.įor details on how I made it (and a few better pictures), read on. ![]() Plus, it tends to disturb the other patrons in the coffee shop I frequent. Wearing the helmet and nothing else looks wrong. A while back I posted about building the helmet for Isaac Clarke's engineering RIG from Dead Space 2 ![]()
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