Female Yautja build - (wip)

All of my stuff is painted rusty on purpose... it hides the lack of detail---- LOL.

My husband bought me the Shelaa statue and unveiled it to me yesterday. It is SO nice to have this thing physically in front of you... that way you can see so much more detail than looking online.

So speaking as someone who both owns the reference material AND has some of SPGFX's work in hand... he's doing a STELLAR job so far! :)
 
So i finally decided to catch up with this... i havent been to the forum in quite some time.

Everything is looking Awesome as expected lol

To anyone else following this build i have had the honor of owning some of SPGFX work.

Pictures do No justice!

If and when ANY of your work becomes available i Highly recommend everyone to BUY! each piece is a stand alone work of ART.
 
I was in the shop cutting and sanding PVC dread beads. Just the thought of having to do 200 of these !! So I thought I would try casting them. I could do 10 at a time and make some cool designs. I could also cast up some dread tips. Here is what I ended up with. They are just spray painted gold so I can get a better idea what they will look like. The designs came out great and I very happy with the tips but I think that the beads are to big. I need some other opinions before I scrap this mold and go back to the drawing board.

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The beads look to be very much in scale with the dred in the photo. I've seen some- beads- thicker and others thinner. It's all a matter of personal taste. IMO, I wouldn't change a thing. It seriously does look spot on!
 
It's been a while since I've done a serious update. The Shuriken mold is kicking my ars and I have been really lacking in modivaton but I that's over now. I go quite some work done so here it is.

With the help of a band saw and heat gun I was able to make the dread beads smaller and more in scale with the dreads. This has turned out to be quite a bit more work then just PVC beads but they look really cool.
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I revised the dread top mold. Initially I have a taped piece they I put down the center of the mold and then poured it compete. This worked out pretty good but the tips were a bit thick. I opened up the top of the mold and just pour a small bit of resin and slush castes them. It uses a lot less resin they are a lot thiner and lighter and there is no trimming.
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I found a new way of coating the dreads also. In the past I have used the plasti dip method but that gets pretty expensive. They need quite a few coats to get a thick protective layer. I did 4 coats on my last set and they were torn up a bit by my armor. The plasti dip also look dull. I used the same black adhesive calling I used to texture my armor. I thinned it a lot with water and just applied it by hand working it along the dread. One coat comes out nice and smooth-ish. The finish is very flexible a strong with a nice semi gloss finish.
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Here is the actual product. This stuff is great sticks to just about anything and water clean up.
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I have been sculpting away at the bio. This is a nice 1 or 2 hour relaxing evening project. It's almost done just need to even out the smooth surfaces and add a few more details. This Bio was sculpted in a plaster cast from the mask so it will be a very nice fit.
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I started on the body armor also. It took me quite some time to figure out the best way to tackle this armor set. It needs to be light and form fitting. I tried a few foam pieces and could not get the tight form fit and it was a bit bulky. Worbla would have been good but it would take a few layers to get it thick enough to hold a form and expensive. I decided that cast resin armor was the best choice and since I'm making 2 suits it will cut down the work.
I stated with a duct tape dummy. After drawing out the armor outline I applied plaster bandages where the armor would be. 3 plus layers we're needed to get a nice solid form that I could remove and work on.
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Once the whole mess had dried I drew out the armor again decided where to seperate the piece to make the whole thing easy to put on and wear.

I got some heavy duty emergency shears they cut the 3 layers of plaster bandages with a bit of effort . I cut all the pieces off, primed and painted them. Once dry I put them back on the dummy trim out the edges. I want the edges 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch in from the actual edge. Once I have the edges cut I run a layer of tape around the edges so the clay does not get little pits of plaster all order it.

My daughter and I started on the thigh piece this was the simplest part and she wanted to learn how to do it. After trimming the edge we applied tape all around it to seal it. Then came the clay. I had a bunch of light and dark brown they I had pulled from a previous mold. I heated this in a toaster oven at 200 till it was very thin. This allowed me to mix the colors to a consistent color and then pour it on a board to smooth and create a thin layer. I cut the thin layer down into smaller strips and applied it the the painted plaster cast of the thigh piece. My daughter did most of the sculpt, applying the details and textures. She did fantastic job for her first time.
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After applying a few layers of latex the sculpt and a fiberglass shell mold we were ready to slush some resin around. When were sculpted the piece we have some thought to the molding process. We made a lip all around the outside that would trap the resin so we could slush it around easily without it flowing over.
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The finished piece came out really nice. 4 coats of resin made a nice thickness not to thin and not to thick but very light. Here is the finished piece. My daughter is very proud of this. Here it is with a base coat of gold.
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Here is the plaster armor all painted and back on the dummy for a final trim before clay and sculpting.
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More to come...

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Dude... when you get to work, you get to WORK!

I am loving it all so far... and when you're all done you can count me in for buying the first set you reproduce. FANTASTIC work.
 
Got a bit done on this build last weekend. I've been working on reworking the dread beads to a smaller size and getting the dreads all coated.

I got some clay in the shoulder pieces and started to rough them in.

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Working on the mask details, to try and do something a bit out of the ordinary I did some piercings. This won some points with my younger daughter whom this build is for.

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SUPER awesome job on the undermask paintup! It looks fantastic, and I like the jewellery that you've added. I might be a bit concerned that it would be obscured with Bio Mask on, but then since you've got an awesome sculpt for that underway, i'm sure you've already planned for that.

You are doing SO well on this...!
 
its been quite a while since I have done an update , so here is a big one.

UNDER MASK: this is basically complete aside for some minor adjustments on the dread extras. 3 coats of perms wet and its nice and shiny and protected. The Perma Wet is a great product. Very flexable and protective. The shine is nice, not to shiny after 3 costs. I cut down the dread beads in diameter to better fit the dreads.
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GROIN ARMOR - cast and painted in main colors, ready for weathering.
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THIGH ARMOR - all paint work is done. It looks really good with the weathering and clear coat. This is the largest piece I have down wand was a bit concerned about making it look good.
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BIO - this has been a long working sculpt and it's great pleasure to finally see it in resin. All the details I spent months sculpting came out perfect. I have learned a lot in my previous sculpts and mold. The 3 piece fiberglass shell is very light and makes getting the cast out easy. I also made all the edges of the sculpt higher and gave them a slight turn inward. This creates a very nice lip in the mold so the resin does not spill out when slush casting. In my previous molds It was hard to get the resin to flow to the edges without it spilling over. I also created a flat surface in the eye holes and filled them in so the resin does not flow out thru them.
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TOP / BACK / NECK ARMOR - I'm trying to sculpt this armor so that the pieces build on each other and I can sculpt the joints and over laps so things go togather easy and fit nice when cast. I started with the top/neck/back armor as the base for all the armor below. This is actually the 3rd time sculpting this. The first time I found it on the floor the next morning. With the weight of the clay on the back and Florida heat the tape just gave out and plop on the floor. The 2nd time is use A LOT more tape. It felt really secure but live and learn. The next morning ON THE FLOOR ! So after a second time I learned. I brought it inside wand lean it forward when not working on it.
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2nd SPEAR HEAD - everting is cut, glued and rough sanded. I tried something new by adding some laser engraved textures. I'm interested to see how this turns out.
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DOUBLE THE FUN ! Don't forget that this build is double ! I'm actually making a suit for each of my daughters. I have a 2nd set of all this cast and I just need to figure out a paint scheme that will make them looks different. I will be trying to make the 2nd set as different as I can working with the same casts but the color is what is going to seperate them. I'm hoping they will look good side by side at Megacon next year. For the 2nd build thinking about going for a black with silver and a dark turquoise details.

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