MagicTubaPixie
New Member
I've been lurking here for a while. I figured Kanohi Miru, the Great Mask of Levitation would be a good starter project, what with simple geometric shapes and low-detail (I am, after all, enlarging something small).
(Yes, it's this.)
Anyway, I started this project over my winter break for something to do (and I've always wanted a life-size Barnacle mask). I anticipated that it'd be mostly done by the time I headed back to school for the spring semester, but that's not entirely so.
I have the core materials all applied, which was really my goal (I was able to do so in the relatively safe environment of my parents' garage, where exposure to horribly toxic fumes was a minimum).
Here's some pictures! And by "some" I mean "a lot."
This is the first documentation of it. Disregard the yellow and purple thing and the "Vintage Cola" bottle. The yellow thing is the work-in-progress of this thing (my primary hobby is LEGO).
There is some wonky geometry in this stage, but I was able to get some of them out by heating up the resin'd mask. It's still not perfect, though.
After I applied some resin, fiberglass, and bondo, I primer'd the mask, then circled everywhere I needed to work on.
I probably should have just circled the entire mask...
:$
Regardless, I continued on and got a layer or two of filler putty, then primer. It had started to look better, but I still needed to work on some areas.
My camera takes really retardedly large pictures and I'm not going to explode you guys' computers with those, but you can check out all the intermediate steps at my majhost gallery.
(The images are out of order because my camera is ... strange. Apologies!)
Also: I'm back at campus at my college now. I am taking 17 hours in an engineering major, so I won't have a whole lot of free time to work on this. However, I hope that, by uploading this, I will encourage myself to work more on it.
I've done a little here on campus, but I don't yet have pictures.
(Yes, it's this.)
Anyway, I started this project over my winter break for something to do (and I've always wanted a life-size Barnacle mask). I anticipated that it'd be mostly done by the time I headed back to school for the spring semester, but that's not entirely so.
I have the core materials all applied, which was really my goal (I was able to do so in the relatively safe environment of my parents' garage, where exposure to horribly toxic fumes was a minimum).
Here's some pictures! And by "some" I mean "a lot."
This is the first documentation of it. Disregard the yellow and purple thing and the "Vintage Cola" bottle. The yellow thing is the work-in-progress of this thing (my primary hobby is LEGO).
There is some wonky geometry in this stage, but I was able to get some of them out by heating up the resin'd mask. It's still not perfect, though.
After I applied some resin, fiberglass, and bondo, I primer'd the mask, then circled everywhere I needed to work on.
I probably should have just circled the entire mask...
:$
Regardless, I continued on and got a layer or two of filler putty, then primer. It had started to look better, but I still needed to work on some areas.
My camera takes really retardedly large pictures and I'm not going to explode you guys' computers with those, but you can check out all the intermediate steps at my majhost gallery.
(The images are out of order because my camera is ... strange. Apologies!)
Also: I'm back at campus at my college now. I am taking 17 hours in an engineering major, so I won't have a whole lot of free time to work on this. However, I hope that, by uploading this, I will encourage myself to work more on it.
I've done a little here on campus, but I don't yet have pictures.
