Female Yautja build - (wip)

spgfx · Jan 12, 2016

Just a quick update

DAGGERS:

I started the finish sand on both daggers. They look a lot better in the black primer. A couple more priming / sandings and these will be ready for some colors.

BODY ARMOR:
All the forms are set on the body armor and I started playing around with textures.

Mortal Immortal · Jan 12, 2016

Looking really good

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Wreav · Jan 14, 2016

Just to let you know, I think you're one of the best Artists on the forum period.

spgfx · Jan 14, 2016

Hey thanks dude. There are some amazing artists here. I can only hope to come close to their accomplishments. It's ALWAYS a learning experience. I learn best by trial and error , you see my successes - you should see my "error pile"

HAL1138 · Jan 14, 2016

That's a great and hysterical idea SPGFX! We NEED a "error pile" thread. One were we can all post our oopsies. I definitely have had some doozies. Perhaps I can dig up some pictures and start one. Everyone can post and write about their mistake along with a picture........or if the picture speaks for itself, just type.... OOPS.

Should make for a good read.

HAL1138 · Jan 14, 2016

Oh..... and just to let you know...... I'm going to come to your house and steal.... err, I mean "borrow indefinitely" all your pretty weaponry. I'll give them a good home....... promise.

Have them all painted and polished by Sunday. I'll be over for tea and then take them all when I leave. Don't bother to wrap them up, unless you have the time. Thanks a bunch.

Wreav · Jan 14, 2016

Every mistake affects me in some way I would get extremely upset at my failure to produce something amazing. I WOULD SPEND HOURS DOUBTING MY ABILITY. And what doesn't help is having an un supportive father constantly saying that I am not good at what I am doing and I should quit. However, after a few motivational videos and listening to my teacher who has taught me almost everything I know about casting. After that I get up and try again. He is a good friend and one of the few that saw potential in me.

LunaticNic · Jan 14, 2016

HAL1138 said:
That's a great and hysterical idea SPGFX! We NEED a "error pile" thread. One were we can all post our oopsies. I definitely have had some doozies. Perhaps I can dig up some pictures and start one. Everyone can post and write about their mistake along with a picture........or if the picture speaks for itself, just type.... OOPS.

Should make for a good read.

I see this thread has not been created yet ... I might as well get to it LOL

spgfx · Feb 5, 2016

It's been awhile since I have done a update. While I have some side projects going I did get quite some work done on this 2 suit build.

DAGGERS:
The daggers are complete and printed with the base coat of gloss black.

The leg straps are all cast and cleaned up.

BODY ARMOR:
I have one side of the body armor sculpt all compete and ready for molding. I'm happy with the texturing in the sculpt and looking forward to seeing how the leather and brushed metal textures look when cast and painted.

DREAD BEADS:
I cast up a new set of dread beads for the 2nd mask. I sculpted a few cool designs that I'm excited to see the final cast..

SPEAR:
The spear fabrication is all complete and I have the base colors on ready for some battle damage and weathering.

I'm thinking about doing the 2nd suit in the Big Red colors. This will make it very different from the 1st and really stand out. I painted the bio and blade gauntlet in gloss red. I will add the black and detail colors and see how things look.

Isubomo · Feb 5, 2016

Wow, loving all the designs man!!!

your daughter is lucky to have a great dad like you!

That dagger is awesome...

spgfx · May 30, 2016

BIG RED AND SHEILA DEBUTE AT MEGACON !

It's been A LONG time since I have posted. Time was getting very tight to get these 2 suits done for Megacon and handle other prop work.

FINALLY ! - Mission completed !!!! Both suits debuted at Megacon and were a HUGH Hit.

Here are some photos from the Con.
We could not take 2 steps without a crowd gathering.

We were invited in for a special photo shoot with Roxy the Rencor. We were also invited to make guest appearances on other Cons.

Big Red got a one on one photo shoot with some very nice results.

Jmen · May 30, 2016

Wow o__O

spgfx · May 30, 2016

Now to go back in time and get caught up with some WIP build photos. I'm going to try not to repeat any past photos but please excuse me if I do.

BIO MASKs -

Sheila -

Big Red- I filled in the details on the top of Big Red's bio to give it a cleaner look.

LunaticNic · May 30, 2016

The builds turned out great! sorry I didn't get the teeth to you in time :/

spgfx · May 30, 2016

MASK:

The mask for Big Red I wanted to do something a bit different. The painted this face tattoo on the mask that would continue on my daughters face to blend things together and give a cool look with the bio removed. I also played around a bit with the dread color. The total effect work really good together.

Jmen · May 30, 2016

oh my god.... now i know, how to make mask for my moto-helmet))) thnx for idea!

spgfx · May 30, 2016

LEGS AND FEET.
The leg armor was going to be cast from latex so they could be one piece , flexible and easy to put on and take off. I started out with plaster cast of both legs. I left a seam in the back an removed the casts with the plaster bandages still flexible. a few strips to close this before everything set up and I have some nice armatures to sculpt on.

Here are the sculpts for the legs

I made the mold wall out of playing card trying to follow the contours to make the mold seam easier to deal with.

I do not have any pics of the leg molds but I did make the mistake of making the first one to thin. I was trying to make the mold light so slush casting would be easier work. Making the mold thin caused it to crack in areas when trying to separate it from the clay and the aggressive features. I made the next mold a lot thicker and had no problem separating the two sections.

Here are some pics of the raw cast with the seams cleaned up and with the intiial coat of paint. I use Monster makers mask paint - red for the base coat. This stuff sticks really good. I got some on my leg while painting and it was no there for days before wearing off.

The paint work was completed using createx wicked air brush colors mix with Monster Makers adhesion promoter, followed with a 2 final coats of Monster makers Perma wet coating.

FEET.

I thought about sculpting predator feet but time did not allow this and I was having trouble with the height. I want my female predators to stand out and ABOVE. My daughter had a pair of heelless shoes that we used with a previous costume. She stood and impressive 6' 5" in these and all I had to do was sculpt and mold some cool looking toe covers. These shoes looked really good with the rest of the build and got quite a few positive comments

spgfx · May 30, 2016

MORPH SUITS :

Comfort and wearabilty were a primary concern when build these suits. A latex sweat suit would not work. I went the painted morph suit route. Here are the paint up photos. They looked really good on with and without the armor.

Big Red morph suit.

Sheila morph suit.

spgfx · May 30, 2016

Here are some pics of all the completed suit components.

SHEILA FINAL PAINT WORK.
Left, right, back and neck armor pieces separated

Here is the complete top armor assembly. The left right shoulder pieces bolt onto rubber flex tabs so the flex up allowing full arm movement,
The front neck piece mounts with magnets for quick removal.

The rest of the body armor is made up of 4 pieces that bolt together with custom sculpted nuts. My initial though was to use Velcro attachment but I was concerned about a failure because I had trouble finding a adhesive that would bond the Velcro to the resin piece to my satisfaction. With mechanical fasteners there is a lot less of a chance

Right upper arm piece and thigh piece.

Blade Gauntlet

Computer Gauntley

Dagger with strap

Leg armor