Irricanian's GM buildup

[irricanian]

I'm going to use this thread to post my buildup pics
Dec 19/07:
Here is my chest greeblies I casted from resin, I sculped them from plastecene and made silicone molds.





Still need some edge cleanup but I think they turned out pretty good.

Working on the chest buc for vacforming now.

[Deleted]

Nice job. I really want to learn how to do resin casting to be able to do pieces like this.

[snowflake]

the left one seems a bit too irregular to me... but maybe it's just because i see God in the details! LOL

[apollo]

nope, it definitely is irregular. It'll probably look better weathered and painted though

[irricanian]

What do you guys mean by irregular? Can you elaborate?

[precentorjames]

Just my take, but it looks wider and rounder on the right side, and there seems to be a counter-curve where it changes direction minutely on the top edge.

As apollo has stated, however, it probably will be unnoticeable when painted and weathered.

[irricanian]

Got some work done on my vacform bucs today, I have the first coats of plaster on my foam sculpts...second coat tomorrow. I also did a pull of my hand plates, turned out ok. Pics to come.

[irricanian]

I did some test pulls today on my knee armor, turned out ok but my buc got stuck..grrr



I made my bucs from Styrofoam SM sheeting, shaped it then applied three to four layers of plaster of paris. I tried coating the knee buc with several coats of clear coat. When I vacformed it the clear coat stuck to the piece and pulled the plaster off. I am now going to sand smooth all the bucs and coat with a fiberglass resin/ bondo mixture.

So far I have both shoulder bells, shin front and back, chest plate, back plate, elbow, hand plates and knee plates on the go. Next will be forearms and biceps...















These are not finished yet, just have 3 coats of plaster of paris, I am still going to put the bondo/resin brush coat on after sanding and then do a final fine sanding and spot filling.

[irricanian]

Changed the knee armor mold and pulled these today





Comments?

[apollo]

those are very good. Looks like a big improvement from the last set

[snowflake]

it seems a very nice pull, no orange peel, looks great! i think they are a bit too large though, the front part should be narrower

[irricanian]

Sorry I disagree with you there Snowflake. For one I have a husky frame and built them to fit me (comfort is important too), If I made them narrower they wouldn't fit right. They also line up perfectly with my shin ridges. I'll post a picture to show what I mean later.

[snowflake]

ok i understand what you mean, mine are narrower and i have a large knees as well... i'll go for accuracy instead of comfort (god, help me! aha haha)

[q99213]

lol, yeah, I'm with snowflake. I built mine pretty narrow. We'll see how they work. I hope to glass them up and get ready to pull the first mould up this week.