star wars work in progress

i have also got a few works in pogress at the moment. none of the next set of models have any fiberglass on them or resin they are just the card models, but they will be completed soon enough.

the first is the most obvious choice when it comes to a star wars build. its the classic storm trooper

a few more details to add, just as the teeth grill and what i think are respirator vents at the very front where the soldiers mouth would be. but so far its not too bad.

next is the dark lord himself, a very nice model to build but one that i felt was a little over complicated in terms of actually building it. i got it done though and it does look rather impressive

just the fiberglass and paint to go on that one, the round helmet part is aso removable and once its fiberglassed i will be cuttin the other section into 3 peices so that it can be wearable and comes apat just like in the movie

and the final installment to the star wars section is R2D2. and if you plan on making R2D2 then you have to do it right. this is a full scale build, the model stands at just under 4 feet tall when fully assembled and when its finished i am pretty sure a small child could easily fit inside

when finished this will have lights and be fitted with motors so that not only does the top dome rotate but it is also fully controllable from an iphone

iron man

this was to begin with a bit of a test build, in my mind this didnt turn out the way i wanted it at all but it did serve a purpose.
starting with a basic card model (i say basic but its actually fairly detailed) i then resin and fiberglassed the whole thing and gave it a nice coat of black primer. the reason i used black for this model in particular is because to get the best shine from the gold paint is to use a dark undercoat

just like in the movie i wanted the face plate to lift up, i added magnets into each of the sides to be able to have it lock into place but so that it was free to move up and down when i wanted it to
after painting it looked good...but something was missing

then i realised the thing that was missing was the added battle damage, it just looked too new :P

i havent added the lights in the eyes for this particular build just because i have begun work on a second one wich i will be including the full suit not just the helmet so stay tuned for that in the not too distant future

Hoverboard

this was a nice quick project, its not movie accurate but it is good enough for who i built it for.
starts out like any other project i build, a card model

each part is actually a seperate element. i do that so that its easier to paint and fiberglass later. for this particular build i wanted to make it look as though it really was hovering so i added magnets into the base

the final paint i tried to follow as close as possible to the movie prop and in all honesty its not movie accurate but it turned out pretty great.

and this is the final piece, the magnets i installed made it possible to stay suspended above the thin plastic tubes making it look like it is hoveing above the stand. the photo and signatures are from the movie and genuine replicas. the delorean model was a basic card model i found online and modified using a little decoupage to make some of the details stand out

Gears of War

my next build was for a Halloween costume. i used a few different techniques for this build, but so far this has been my favorite one to do. i started with the helmet wich was a card model and then fiberglassed

i decided to go a bit off piste and didnt go with the normal gears of war colours i designed my own. it turned out pretty well though in hindsight i probably should have stuck with the original colours. i never liked the blue and black combo i didnt feel it was halloween enough i wanted it to be darker so i chose red and black. but the problem was when adding the blood later on for the final paint effect it was dificult to tell there was blood on there because of the red colour scheme

again ive gone for the distressed look, only because i feel the worn out look makes it look used and therefore more realistic.
i added a ew details such as the air vents at the back u can see i added a wire mesh just togive it more of a realistic scifi feel. i also went ahead and added LED lights to the eyes to have them lightup when wearing it

next is the body armour, for this i used a totally different technique. i decided to go the route of using foam sheets, more specifically foam floor tiles. i custom made this part from scratch just goin by various pictures i found on the internet. I started out with a very basic form just gettin the right shapes. all glued together with a hot glue gun

next i took a soldering iron to burn in the various details and battle damage. it turned out pretty good especially when i got the paint done

i added a few more details as well as a few LED lights and the armour was complete

in the game each character also has rather large almost comical boots and shin guards. i wanted to create them but thought it would look a little silly, instead i went and purchased some kickboxing shin guards that where perfect for the costume. i painted them up black added my own logo to make them look scifi and they looked perfect

the final part is the gun. i found a model online that was designed to be around 6 inches long...way to small for what i needed, but it was accurately proportioned so it was just a case of blowing it up roughly 4 times as big. rather than building it out of thin card stock i wanted to give it a more realistic feel, large metal plates welded/joined together to make the gun model, so after printing it in card i cut the final pieces out of much thicker mount board and after glueing everything together along with a little decoupage techniques i gave it a light coat of resin and then paint

half life

to start off my new blog, im gonna stat with a build i created for a good friend of mine. it was my first commission piece, a helmet from the very popular game half life.
Every helmet starts out the same way, a computer model transformed into a 3D paper sculpture

its then time for resin and fiber glass to make it durable and very strong. and a base layer of black paint

 For this piece a paticular paint scheme as wel as added extras where requested such as blue LED lights in the filters. once the final layer of paint was on and the LED's added the final piece looked incredible

i particularly like the aged looked/ battle damaged as i feel it always looks a bit more natural.