Left shoulder bell

[pghfett]

Yes, if you heavily modify something for yourself or your costume- of coarse this is fine and expected in some cases (and needed to be done for accuracy purposes as well), but you should not produce the same modified item for others without the consent of the original maker of the base product out of respect.
As in the other post about my BARC shoulder bell where I clarified this. This is my personal take on it.
My advice is to sculpt it in your preferred medium from scratch, takeing progress pics along the way, this would be the only way to truely call it "your own" and available to others.

[youngling]

So If I bought it for reference and measurements and to give me an idea for sculpting you are saying I could call it mine. Well I will write a consent letter to Studiocreations then about this and see what he thinks. Thanks Mike for the help.

[pghfett]

If I remember correctly, their site actually provides illustrated measurements of the parts.
By all means contact them and LTK what your trying to accomplish.

[youngling]

YA he does provide measurements but to tell the truth (just like jason said) you can't and it is almost impossible to make something perfect out of just measurements with out somekind of example. Its like when you are writing a song It is so much easier to write a bass part with hearing as example of what you like than without one. But I think I will buy one and use it as an example for sculpting my own out of clay. I have one last question. I have heard of sculpting out of foam. how is this process done?

[pghfett]

So have we reached a consensus that this GM shoulder bell is the same as the BARCS ?
I need to know so I can continue with this project as far as "filling out" the bells overall shape (rounding the bottom edge and adding a littel bondo to sculpt it out more for the slight squarish ridge look.

[youngling]

Yes I would say they are the exact same peice with a different paint job. Go ahead and sculpt away PGhfett.

[Anrev]

Yes.

[pghfett]

Soon to be FG BARC/GM shoulder armor,

Here is the preliminary sculpt on the shoulder pieces.
Oddly, this was a very hard scuplt !

The shoulder armor has multiple complex curves to it where I tried to capture the proper look from all views.

Heres a break down pic of the above...





Here are some more pics form different angles










Let me know what you all think.

Based on my expierence with the back plate once painted, camo'ed and weathered, it looks pretty close. I used the illustration quite a bit on the sculpt for angles if you cannot tell.

This shoulder armor is the same for the GM as well


Mike

[snowflake]

it looks great! What material are you using for the sculpt?

[youngling]

WOW That is one amazing work of art! I mean it is beutiful. I can't wait to start on my shoulder bell but right now I am still trying to get my vac former in comission.

[mandoman]

Great job on that Mike!! It looks good from all angles!

[Deleted]

yeah, that looks great...Keep up the good work and show us some more pics (closer to being finished???!!??)

[pghfett]

Here are some progress pics of the finished Galactic Marine/BARC knee plates and shoulder pieces I made. Literal progress pics have been posted at their respective boards (sanding, sculpting ect...) Hope you all like, moving along with the BARC project.

[youngling]

OH MAN I LOVE YOUR WORK MAN!!! can't wait to see more (if ther is more) I can't wait till I can vac form my own left shoulder bell.

[admin]

Mike, superb! I want a set of GM knees and a left shoulder bell! Those metal brackets look really, really good. Kudos to the metal worker. I'd probably leave my brackets bare metal, just to show them off!