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A fairy boy bust, cast in silicone with resin eyes, acrylic teeth painted with acrylic stains and rainbow hair fur transfer.
My envision of happiness.. 🧚

Growing up at the perfect time to enjoy the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon and films I knew it was only a matter of time before I would finally create a love letter cosplay to the franchise.

Krang was scratch built from head to toe. The body is largely made from upholstery foam and EVA foam with a mixer of 3M 74 spray, neoprene rubber and plastidip to skin the foam body.

https://youtube.com/shorts/WH0dAeLXb2o?si=kIE9jTSd844Eup0t (Raw Foam movement test)

The body was then painted with rattle can paints for the block colors and airbrushed for all the exposed skin portions.
Krang's alien body (belly) was sculpted out of oil clay, molded in stone and cast in silicone, then airbrushed with thinned caulking technique.

Krang's android head was also sculpted in oil clay to 2nd forms and then measurements were taken from the sculpture and used to 3d model the goggles and other robotic parts that were then 3d printed and used to finish the android mask which was then 2part molded in stone and cast in neoprene rubber. 

This was a 90 day build, I'm sure I missed a ton of interesting detail that anyone can check out thru our build log on insta @ KARRVER

I planned this out about 3 years ago, kind of a cross between Super Mario and Starship Troopers/Halo/Metroid.

The concept was simple, but it seemed interesting to me, because I felt that if someone saw the suit, they couldn’t help but imagine what other things from that universe may look like, IE Yoshi, Bowser, Koopa Troopers, and so on.

Because the Nintendo franchise is so well known, it would almost automatically inspire people start thinking about applying this aesthetic to COUNTLESS other characters.

I started out with the concept design, which was basically a modified unused armor design from one of the Halo games. I liked this specific one because it just so happened to have circular plates on the chest that were in the exact right place that if they were painted gold, they would look like Mario’s overalls buttons. I wanted to keep the design in the era of Super Mario 3 and Super Mario World because those were my favorite two games growing up. I kept this in mind while working the yellow scarf into the design to take the place of Mario’s yellow Cape from Super Mario World. Since historically Mario is also known as “Jump Man”, I wanted to work a jump pack into the design (using the cooling vents on the back of the DeLorean Time Machine as a guide)