Thorssoli's Isaac Clarke Engineering Rig from Dead Space 2

[thorssoli]

Today I spent more time airbrushing:


Lots more time:


Then all the parts got a blackwash to bring out the details and add weathing:


Meanwhile, work began on the undersuit:


In addition to the leather vest, I repurposed a pair of short-sleeved grey Dickies coveralls and added a leather seat. Then it was just a matter of arranging the parts:


At quitting time today, the whole rig looked like so:


The riblets are riveted onto the vest. The arm and leg rings are riveted to the coveralls. I'll be doing a lot more riviting tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have finished pictures to show off after that.

Stay tuned...

 

[Starvinartist80]

Everything looks great. I'm realy impressed at how well you hid the rivets.

 

[TxtbookNinja]

Again, this is absolutley amazing. Seeing the finished torso looks crazy good. I'm jealous.

 

[Statyk]

I think I just fell in love with the gloves/gauntlets. Lookin beautiful! =D

 

[sithinstructor]

Looks really, really amazing with the paint. I wonder when you cut out the vacuformed parts are all the leftover scraps just trash or have you come up with something useful to do with them?

 

[thorssoli]

Everything looks great. I'm realy impressed at how well you hid the rivets.

The rivets are not hidden, they're just on the inside:


We tried counting and came up with something like 176 rivets that went into the build. My hands are sore. I also pinched a nipple with the pop rivet gun at one point. Fortunately, I've got just the thing to make it better:

Looks really, really amazing with the paint. I wonder when you cut out the vacuformed parts are all the leftover scraps just trash or have you come up with something useful to do with them?

I use up most of the leftovers. Sometimes the scraps are so completely in the way that they piss me off. Other times I have to scour the workshop just to find a couple of small pieces. They're great for backing up parts or strapping things together.

In other news, THIS PROJECT IS FINISHED!

Here's a shot of it together:

And another:


I'm too lazy to write up the last steps of the build again. For more pics (and a complete rundown of the build) check out my blog: http://protagonist4hire.blogspot.com/2011/10/isaac-clarkes-engineering-rig-costume.html

 

[vshore100]

The armor came out great! I also really like that health pack.

 

[spartanx360]

waauw, your armor is sick, i like the purple glare of the stasis and health light

 

[Starvinartist80]

The suit turned out fantastic. Top-notch work as always Thor. Your skills never cease to amaze.

 

[Liamthedevastator]

Awesome turnout! I love the details in the part over your shoulder-blades. If you ever get a few extra minutes, would you post some information about the airbrush you are using? An airbrush kit seems more and more like a good idea to me.

Top notch sir, a real inspiration!

 

[spartanx360]

haha, they posted your pictures on the daily what geeks from memebase

 

[thorssoli]

Yeah. This outfit is getting around too. Not quite as much as my RvB Spartan lineup, but it's still pretty cool.

I submitted some pics to the Halloween contest on the RPF, but I also figured I should go ahead and share them here:





I still need to do a bit of fine-tuning, but I'm pretty happy with this build.

On the subject of fine-tuning, I've made some improvements to the lighting for the health tube:


What you're looking at is a series of superbright blue LEDs mounted into a piece of frosted acrylic rod which acts as a diffuser. A series of stripes drawn onto the visible side of the rod finishes the look:


I'm thinking I'll go back and re-do this again, actually scoring the lines into the rod so it will do an even better job of looking segmented.

I also went ahead and picked up one of the collector's edition plasma cutters from Epic Weapons. I'm not impressed. It looks the part, but it needs to be about 20% bigger. I'll probably start a build of my own in the next month or two.

Stay tuned...

 

[BLACKULA727]

THis is one of the most amazing suits I've ever seen. I'm not just saying that either. I really love it. Great job Thor!

 

[Starvinartist80]

The finished (well at least for now) product looks fantastic. You've done some grade-A work as always. Thanks for sharing.

 

[calladar]

freaking unreal.. that is awesome. really like the lighting effect and just adds to awesomeness..

 

[mkshane81]

This turned out absolutely great Shawn!! Job very well done sir!!

-Matt

 

[TheBearMan]

Excellent work sir!

 

[Scar405th]

i agree that build is awesome kinda makes me jelouse

 

[Road Kill]

DANG this is just amazing man, well done =D

 

[thorssoli]

Forgot to mention this other significant thing that happened with this costume. Read details here: Isaac Clarke Meets His Makers