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Mutants, Xenos, and Heretics / A Question for really deep details

« Last post by zemouregal on Today at 09:04:09 PM »

Hello, I am new to the costuming scene, but not Warhammer 40k! I recently got REALLY deep into the lore of the World Eaters and I decided to start building myself a Khorne Berserker cosplay.

However, I'm willing to also detail my own face below the helmet. So, here's my question:

How could I do the Butcher's Nails? Should I SFX some scars on my face? Pointy teeth? Maybe even contacts?

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Space Marines / Re: Chaplain Build, Black Templar

« Last post by doomfist on June 18, 2018, 10:40:34 PM »

Tested the tabard, it's a faux velvet acrylic cloth that I pounded on with a ball peen hammer to age, almost done, just needs a few (or dozens of) more holes in it.   The filigree is gold puffy fabric paint.  Then I whipped up a hand grenade, it's a Perrier can (just slightly smaller than a standard soda can), covered in two layers of 3mm foam and dry brushed in gold Testors model paint and I threw some cheap craft gems on it. 

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Space Marines / Re: Space Marines discussion/art thread

« Last post by prev on June 18, 2018, 08:38:44 AM »

Wow. It's been a while...

Anyone out there???

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Space Marines / Re: Chaplain Build, Black Templar

« Last post by prev on June 18, 2018, 05:43:11 AM »

Damn son... THAT IS AWESOME.

Can't wait to see it finished.

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Mutants, Xenos, and Heretics / Re: Night Lords WIP

« Last post by Flavoredpickle on June 17, 2018, 01:02:43 PM »

SO, after much trouble shooting on my printer, the helmet is finished!

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Space Marines / Re: Wolf Helm of Russ

« Last post by doomfist on June 15, 2018, 11:23:47 PM »

Niiiice! 

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Space Marines / Re: Wolf Helm of Russ

« Last post by Mayzee25 on June 15, 2018, 04:47:07 PM »

That looks great and you can see the potential once it's fully made up - keep up the good work!

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Space Marines / Wolf Helm of Russ

« Last post by thorssoli on June 14, 2018, 02:20:08 AM »

The other day I decided to dust off this backburner project and get it finished.  It's nearing completion, so I figured I'd go ahead and share my progress so far.

I started with a reject cast from my old beaky space marine helmet mold.  I split it in half lengthwise to add a bit of width, ground off the ears and camera housing, and filled in all the holes.  This gave me a starting shape that looked like so:


Then I covered it with a bunch of expanding foam:




Then I whittled the foam down to the rough shape I needed:


That shape was covered with oil-based clay and the final shape started to become clear:


Sculpting was mostly done late at night when I was home from the shop, but it worked out pretty well:






So a little over a year ago, it looked like so:


Then, tired of moving the sculpt around in the workshop, I dusted it off, mounted it to some cardboard, and filled the overhangs with silicone:


Then I went ahead and mounted it upright and built up a drip wall:


And built up the rest of the silicone rubber mold jacket:


Once that had cured, I built a two-part fiberglass mothermold:




Then, after it was all solid, I pried the mothermold off, trimmed up the edges, made a relief cut up the backside of the rubber jacket, and demolded the sculpt:


After a tiny bit of clean-up, I was able to rotocast a good, solid copy of the helmet:


After a quick trim, I couldn't help but try it on and compare it to the sculpt:


Not bad:


But maybe the next one will be better:


Stay tuned...

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General Discussion / Re: Which Legion did you choose?

« Last post by prev on June 13, 2018, 12:18:24 AM »

The avatar should speak for itself. Blood Angels all the way (more specifically, Death Company).

Other choices for me are Black Templars, Crimson Fists (love Pedro Cantor) and Dark Angels.

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Space Marines / Re: there can I find website that sells black templars rhino rear door ramp upgrade

« Last post by prev on June 13, 2018, 12:02:43 AM »

This may sound like a pain in the ass, but possibly find someone to model/ 3D print the extra bits???

Just an idea, I dunno...