Thanks guys. Unfortunately it's still unlikely that I'll be able to sell sets, sorry.
Well since this armor was built on a much smaller scale not to much money is required for materials at least in the initial build anyway. I used a 12 inch body to build the armor off of. I then cover the area that I was going to sculpt over with oil base clay. Think of the oil base clay as the body suit that'll slip under the armor.
Next I applied magic sculpt over figure and oil base clay.
You can easily pull the armor piece off of the figure and then clean out the oil base clay.
Magic sculpt is a two part epoxy that dries rock hard in about 24 hours but it starts to set in about 2 hours so I had to work fast when it was still wet. Most of the sculpting I did was actually after it set. I used exacto blades, sand paper and dremel.
The forearm guards were all one piece but most of the armor is two pieces and require a seem line that needs to align perfectly. The best way to do this is somewhat tedious and tricky. Basically I built the front side of the armor and finished it completely. Then I put it back on the figure with oil base clay underneath.
Then I took some liquid latex and applied it to the seem and then proceeded to build the back piece of armor.
The latex basically acts as a paper thin barrier between the two pieces so that I can pop them apart after I'm done sculpting. Magic sculpt sticks to basically anything by the way.
So now I start sculpting the back piece of armor. Making sure to get both the right and left in proper proportion.
All I did was hold them next to each other and keep comparing and re-sizing.
By the way even the helmet splits in two and has a seem line. The key is hiding the seem line in the armor details.
I repeated the same process for each part of the armor until it's all said and done. Some of the armor was a lot harder to build because it required engineering a joint or hinge. Like the feet for example. The toe hinge was a very difficult thing to design. But the hard work did pay off because it works.
One more thing. The armor was designed hold a couple different magnets two at the hips, one on the back and two at the feet.
And all the weapons I build will have either magnets or metal built into them so that they can be attached to both the spartan and the marine armor.
Well since this armor was built on a much smaller scale not to much money is required for materials at least in the initial build anyway. I used a 12 inch body to build the armor off of. I then cover the area that I was going to sculpt over with oil base clay. Think of the oil base clay as the body suit that'll slip under the armor.
Next I applied magic sculpt over figure and oil base clay.
You can easily pull the armor piece off of the figure and then clean out the oil base clay.
Magic sculpt is a two part epoxy that dries rock hard in about 24 hours but it starts to set in about 2 hours so I had to work fast when it was still wet. Most of the sculpting I did was actually after it set. I used exacto blades, sand paper and dremel.
The forearm guards were all one piece but most of the armor is two pieces and require a seem line that needs to align perfectly. The best way to do this is somewhat tedious and tricky. Basically I built the front side of the armor and finished it completely. Then I put it back on the figure with oil base clay underneath.
Then I took some liquid latex and applied it to the seem and then proceeded to build the back piece of armor.
The latex basically acts as a paper thin barrier between the two pieces so that I can pop them apart after I'm done sculpting. Magic sculpt sticks to basically anything by the way.
So now I start sculpting the back piece of armor. Making sure to get both the right and left in proper proportion.
All I did was hold them next to each other and keep comparing and re-sizing.
By the way even the helmet splits in two and has a seem line. The key is hiding the seem line in the armor details.
I repeated the same process for each part of the armor until it's all said and done. Some of the armor was a lot harder to build because it required engineering a joint or hinge. Like the feet for example. The toe hinge was a very difficult thing to design. But the hard work did pay off because it works.
One more thing. The armor was designed hold a couple different magnets two at the hips, one on the back and two at the feet.
And all the weapons I build will have either magnets or metal built into them so that they can be attached to both the spartan and the marine armor.
