Immortan Joe Progress Log - 3d Models, W.I.P. photos, and Con Results!

[Ein]

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Been combing online retailers trying to find ribbon designs that look even slightly close but I'm having no luck. Anyone have any clever ideas on this front? I'm not sure I'm searching for the right things - "ribbon" is shockingly vague, while "medal ribbon" gets me the horizontal bar strips that the military uses.

 

[Augh]

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Yeah actually found this site off of a typo trying to going to IMDb it's a pretty awesome site The only thing it doesn't have on there that I want to know is what is on the end of their spears that explodes!?


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Looking at freezeframes and flipping through the artbook, seems like a mishmash of miscellaneous canisters lashed to the poles, and usually tipped with what appear to be simple aerosol cans. Kinda makes sense since the nozzle at the top looks functionally believable for a kind of impact switch/trigger, and they probably had a ton of this type of thing lying around. It fits with both how they're supposed to function, and what I'm seeing in reference materials.

 

[immortanjoanna]

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While we're sharing links, here's what I've got on the guns for cheap options.

One revolver seems to be a Colt .45 Peacemaker - the other is a Colt .357 Revolver. The Peacemaker is the gun Nux loses when he falls off the rig - the .357 is what Joe's plinking with from the driver's seat.

http://i.imgur.com/jvIrwsUm.jpg

The .357 has a pretty good airsoft facsimile in the form of a UHC Airsoft Revolver. Bunch of these on eBay and the likes - model number is UA938s, where the S designation is for silver. I have two of these in black already, so I may just paint one up chrome, but it's a good, cheap option. They're also super fun to play with, by the by. Get the 6" one and enjoy.

http://i.imgur.com/DEYtjupl.jpg

The Peacemaker is a bit trickier. There's a bunch of crappy options, and there's no lack of overly-ornately-engraved plastic capgun versions of similar design. I ultimately went with a 'Cowboy Style 12 Shot Cap Revolver - Chrome' from collectorsarmoury. Generally, you might want to look for a "Gonher" brand Colt, which is what I think this is - they're on Amazon.co.uk, but not so much on the US side of the pond. I haven't received my order yet, but it's die-cast metal and I assume it looks enough of the part that it'd work. Be careful you don't get the wrong one - they have a version that's all filigreed up which is cool, but not accurate.

The handles on both guns, near as I can tell, should be black, so I may paint the peacemaker when it gets here.

Question: Any issues with these being taken to conventions? If I go outside of my house with them will I end up on the news? (sorry, originally from Australia, now live in WV, don't want to go to jail and have to call the other half in Iraq and be like "can you get someone to come and bail me out?")

 

[Bigboss1o1]

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I got this one off of amazon 10 bucks, scope is removable


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[Ein]

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Question: Any issues with these being taken to conventions? If I go outside of my house with them will I end up on the news? (sorry, originally from Australia, now live in WV, don't want to go to jail and have to call the other half in Iraq and be like "can you get someone to come and bail me out?")

Depends on the convention, really. I went as the Rocketeer to NYCC last year and I had an airsoft C96 Mauser on me. It was die-cast metal and looked fairly realistic, but they let me walk right in with the thing without any hassle, and I took it out a lot for pictures. When I did the same thing in Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, they made me zip-tie the handle to indicate that it had been inspected and cleared, but otherwise didn't seem to care.

In my experience, the rules of the convention tend to prohibit these kinds of items and if you ask specifically they will tell you that you shouldn't bring them... but then when I bring them anyway, nobody ever gives me a hard time about it. Clearly, the secret is to have a cool enough costume on that nobody thinks twice about it.

 

[Ein]

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I just picked up a pair of these bad boys in my size off Amazon and they got delivered. They fit pretty well!



They are not real leather, but they seem to be durable enough. I've been wearing them around today and I can easily see managing a convention in them. I need to fashion toe caps for it and then I need to secure bike chain to trim the sole of the boot, but I garbage-picked a bike from down the street so I have most of what I need for that already.

Still searching for appropriate ribbon for these badges, though. :|

 

[immortanjoanna]

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Depends on the convention, really. I went as the Rocketeer to NYCC last year and I had an airsoft C96 Mauser on me. It was die-cast metal and looked fairly realistic, but they let me walk right in with the thing without any hassle, and I took it out a lot for pictures. When I did the same thing in Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, they made me zip-tie the handle to indicate that it had been inspected and cleared, but otherwise didn't seem to care.

In my experience, the rules of the convention tend to prohibit these kinds of items and if you ask specifically they will tell you that you shouldn't bring them... but then when I bring them anyway, nobody ever gives me a hard time about it. Clearly, the secret is to have a cool enough costume on that nobody thinks twice about it.

Hmmm, one of the plans is to wear it to AwesomeCon next year in DC - being in DC and all, this makes me nervous. I need to find their prop weapon policy again.

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Still searching for appropriate ribbon for these badges, though. :|

Got given a sewing machine for my birthday (yay!), so going to craft stores not this weekend but the following to see what I can find and mock up, if I figure it out, I'll let everyone know and don't mind making them and sending them out for people.

 

[Bigboss1o1]

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Hmmm, one of the plans is to wear it to AwesomeCon next year in DC - being in DC and all, this makes me nervous. I need to find their prop weapon policy again.

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Got given a sewing machine for my birthday (yay!), so going to craft stores not this weekend but the following to see what I can find and mock up, if I figure it out, I'll let everyone know and don't mind making them and sending them out for people.

Your the best Joanna that would be soo shiny!


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[Ein]

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I'm a little scatterbrained, a little busy, and a little ADD, but I'm still working on things for this costume. My boots for the outfit arrived and I have the bike chain I needed...



...so I decided to take a closer look at Joe's toecaps.



At first I assumed they were just steel toes, but upon closer examination I realized that they're engine pistons cut in half and shaped.



Makes sense, really, and it's a damn cool detail I never would have noticed otherwise. I just got in a batch of 'silver' PLA filament for my 3d printer, so I figured I'd take a crack at 3d modelling something suitable up:



As with all my other files, I'll make these available once I'm sure I have the right scale and details down. Right now I have my first prototype of these things printing.

 

[ahoudini]

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Amazing, Ein! Another real, but incorrect, item I have to scrap now (my regular steel toe caps)! By the time you are done with me, my whole costume will be 3D printed!

Keep up the great work!

BTW, any ideas on how to fasten the motorcycle chain to the boots? Hot glue, alone, won't hold up for long. Drill the edge of the sole at intervals and lash it with wire?


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[Ein]

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I figured I'd try some E6000 adhesive, since it seems to work okay on metal, leather, and rubber. It's a silicone-based adhesive that comes in black and clear. Hot glue would definitely not do it, though I do also like the idea of lashing it with wire for the sake of making it a bit more solid.

That said, I didn't like my first two iterations of the print for fit, so I've gone back to the drawing board. I used my kinect to do a quick 3d scan of the boot for reference and then started reshaping it and redoing it accordingly.



I made it taper out a bit as it moves up the foot from the toe - I know the piston would never actually be shaped like this, but my justification is just that he probably would have hammered it out a bit wider to fit his foot, and frankly wearing a cylinder on the end of your toe isn't very comfortable otherwise. I've spaced it such that the bike chain will hopefully sit right beneath the cylinder cap. I also added a couple posts to the front of the cylinder so the chain has something to shape it better, as the toe on my boot is rather pointed and I need the bike chain to have the profile of a wider toe.



Round 2 is printing now, so we'll see how it goes. As soon as I come up with something decent I'll put the files up.



In the interim, I did have a chance to try a 3d print of the models provided by @Hammerstyle and I'm impressed with the fit on these. I probably won't use them on the boots since I have real bike chain handy, but these parts fit together really wonderfully. I could see using them if I were to make Joe's belt and buckle from the start of the movie, instead of the holster belt.

 

[ahoudini]

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The printed chains will be really good for the chaps, too. The toe caps/pistons look great!


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[eriksmask]

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Those are looking great Ein! I'm in the same boat as Ahoudini, I'm trading out my metal caps for your lighter and much more accurate ones. I received my first of your Shapeways medals, so happy with the results! I have the athletic medal on order too!

 

[Ein]

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I've never actually seen the prints Shapeways sends out, so it's pretty neat to get that chance. Thanks for posting it.

I'll get around to doing the keyhole badge soon, it has just been a bit annoying to deal with.

 

[Ein]

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I am reasonably satisfied with this, though I had to make some post-print changes.



The white plastic bits are just there to hold the chain further out away from the toe and give the pointy boot a more 'rounded' look. Here's how we're doing as far as a loose test fit goes:









I think it'll work. The sole of the boots has about a quarter inch 'rim' that I can rest the chain on and epoxy or glue it down to, and the piston cap should fit snugly right above it while still giving me enough room to flex my foot. I'll probably glue the hell out of the toe on these boots, but first I'm going to do my usual sand/smooth/fill routine on the piston itself to make it less obviously printed.

If anyone's interested, the model I ended up using is here, and I will add it to the OP in a bit, but as I mentioned before I had to rebuild it a bit after it was printed.

 

[ahoudini]

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Excellent! Acetone vapor bath to smooth it? Works for ABS but not PLA...

 

[Ein]

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I mostly print in PLA if only because I haven't had the time to sit there and figure out how to print ABS properly. It's a cagey material, as I understand it - prone to separation and hard to get to stick unless you baby it. Definitely need to take the time to do that, though, because of the vapor smoothing aspect and also to print higher-temp replacement parts for my own printer.

You can actually smooth PLA in a comparable way with some really toxic chemicals that I happen to have in my workshop, but it's not worth the trouble or danger, honestly. XTC-3D and a bit of sanding makes the parts stronger and smoother in the end.

 

[Hamsterstyle]

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At Dragoncon our costumes are going to look very similar, haha. I just did a modified version of the chains with a flat back for use on the boots. I haven't fitted it yet so I don't know how well it will fit. I'll post some pictures in your thread tonight and show it off.

I think I'm going to veer from canon a bit and make some of the medals on the leg chaps a bit different. Make some custom stuff to go there rather than the real stuff, just so mine looks a little bit different. I'm sure the only people who will notice are all of you.

Here are a few of the leg pieces I did last night.


I figure noone cares if we cross post stuff in each other threads. In some ways I think we should have just made one big master thread.

 

[ahoudini]

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True dat! Your prints look great!

I collected a ton of car emblems for the chaps so I will also be going for the spirit of it and not precise accuracy!

 

[Ein]

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At Dragoncon our costumes are going to look very similar, haha. I just did a modified version of the chains with a flat back for use on the boots. I haven't fitted it yet so I don't know how well it will fit. I'll post some pictures in your thread tonight and show it off.

I think I'm going to veer from canon a bit and make some of the medals on the leg chaps a bit different. Make some custom stuff to go there rather than the real stuff, just so mine looks a little bit different. I'm sure the only people who will notice are all of you.

Here are a few of the leg pieces I did last night.
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I figure noone cares if we cross post stuff in each other threads. In some ways I think we should have just made one big master thread.

A master thread probably would have been smart, in hindsight. I mostly just didn't want to hijack the other one going because it had such excellent work!

Those emblems look great. My 3d printer is out of commission for a little bit (stepper motor, why, you had so much to live for!) so I decided to move onto more hands-on stuff and started trying to make a mold of the Immortan Joe mask.

I'm mostly just monkeying around and doing what I see other people do when it comes to making these molds. I hope I understand the process right, but I guess we'll find out!

We took one of my head mannequins and taped him up with masking tape to keep him safe, and then added a plasticine clay layer and stuck the mask down ontop.











I mixed up some Rebound 25 and brushed on what I felt was a reasonably thin detail layer. It is not as thin as I thought it would be based on the photos I have seen of people using it, but it took to the model pretty well.







Up next is another thin layer of rebound 25 (or two, depending) and then I will start doing additional layers with thickening agents mixed in to bulk it out a bit.