When the resin had kicked just enough to pull it out of the mold without falling apart, I pulled the pieces and bent them to the curve I needed: Molding pieces with such a curve is a massive pain in the buttocks, so I decided to cheat a little bit and make them flat.

The problem is that the shoulder and chest parts all have a curve to them. After careful study, I decided I could make all twelve of the bronze colored parts out of only four unique pieces: The right arm also has a series of repeating parts. Having made a mold for the neck piece and the little riblets, I cast copies of them as well and started laying them out as they would appear on the costume: Here you can see the nasty mess on the inside: Here's an early lighting test using EL wire: I made the little greeblie details separate castings:įor the health tube, I cooked up a sheet of blue-tinted acrylic and bent it to fit. Here's the rubber jacket mold and fiberglass mothermold:Īnd here's the first casting out of the mold. Then I sculpted the large back piece in clay with a few found items thrown in:

They're essentially just six unique pieces repeated six times, so I only had to make one set of prototypes: It was made from a piece of acrylic tube, a piece of a plywood cylinder, some PVC pipe, and oodles of scraps of sheet styrene in various thicknesses.įor a while I was even doing a half-decent job of keeping a neat(ish) workspace for this build:Īfter the neck piece was done, I made the little riblet details for the chest. This means I absolutely had to build the rest of the RIG.įor details on how I made it (and a few better pictures), read on. Plus, it tends to disturb the other patrons in the coffee shop I frequent. Wearing the helmet and nothing else looks wrong. A while back I posted about building the helmet for Isaac Clarke's engineering RIG from Dead Space 2

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