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Re: Lóthdúr the Forsaken, Third of the Nine
AAaaahh! That's so inspiring! Mad respect for the metal working.
Re: Dragon Skin Help
Dragon Skin FX Pro is a decently fast (45 min cure) low durometer (Shore A 2) that I like to use. Eco-Flex 00-35 Fast is also great but, sometimes a 5 minute cure is a bit too fast.
Micah J.
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The Last of Us: Female Clicker
Latex clicker mask/costume inspired by the Video Game “The Last of Us”
Lóthdúr the Forsaken, Third of the Nine
The third of nine kings of men to accept a ring of power from Sauron, Lóthdúr, driven by malice and contempt, was the most cruel of the Nazgûl...
This is my recreation of a Nazgûl, inspired by those from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films and designs by Weta Workshop. Everything is designed/redesigned and made by me (except the 3D printed sword, however I did paint it).
The costume began with the steel gauntlets, the templates for which I redesigned and adjusted myself, with replicas made by Kropserkel as a base reference. Most features and motifs are the same or similar, but I also added some of my own design to them.
The steel helmet/mask/crown is my own design, inspired by the Sauron helmet from the Middle Earth: Shadow of War game. This I added to the costume to give some facial features and interest under the hood, but also to add my own personal touch to the character.
The robe I designed myself, based on Nazgûl figures by Weta Workshop. I also made steel shoe covers, replicating the armored boots.
This was my first time making a project like this, but by the end I'd learnt. Many hours were spend cutting, filing, hammering and forming all the 0.9mm steel sheet metal parts by hand, with a little welding too. In retrospect I should have had them lasercut ;p
Here's some of the process...
Once completed all the parts were heated and quenched in rapsolja, blackening the surface. This treatment turned out better than expected - it not only blacked the pieces but added different, shadowy hues of blue, green and copper, which change depending on the light, further enhancing the evil vibes ;p
The fingerplates were all pop-riveted onto strips of leather. And all the large pieces were attached together with hammered rivets.
Boot covers, modelled in Blender first and saved to a flat template.
The helmet was also designed by me in Blender, from which I generated a flat template to cut it out as a single piece.
I also added some red LEDs to the inside of the helmet as a final touch, to provide some contrast to it's shapes and edges under the dark hood, and add an extra bit of spookyness for Halloween.
You can see more about my projects on Instagram @horribleigh
including other past Halloween costumes and makeups. There's a little more on my Nazgul project, including a video showing the articulation of the gauntlets.
Here's a bonus pic with Hannah, the not so enthusiastic Nazgûl steed
Happy Halloween!
Pride Demon
This is the Pride Demon as shown in the video game, Dragon Age: Inquisition. Made from layers of eva foam, I started out by making a breastplate out of EVA and building the details on top of it. It is hand painted with layers of acrylics and the whole thing is attached with a fabric bodysuit, elastic, glue, and magnets. It took about 2,000 hrs, the better part of a year, and about eight rolls of EVA foam haha!
Re: What's On Your Workbench? (Fall 2021)
This is my latest project, Rex: 22 foot, 4 man, fire breathing, wing flapping, T Rex inspired villain of our latest show at Logos Theatre. Obviously he doesn't really fit "on" the workbench, but.... you know....Hopefully I can get around to making a full post of this guy in the halloween contest and have some cool photos and videos for those of you who are interested.
Re: [Question of the Month] What's an unusual or unique tool in your collection?
I pick up old electric meat carvers like this at goodwill anytime I see them. They are fantastic at cutting a wide variety of foam!Experiment#247 and Gummy
Hello everyone,
I initially debuted this costume for Monsterpalooza in 2019 and upgraded it since then.
I wanted to push what a small 3d printer could do and learn all the techniques involved in making a latex mask: casting, painting, hair punching, and now eyes were still new to me.
some 3d Wip, sculpted in zbrush and split the model to many parts in order to be printed at full scale on the form2
Puzzle Time!
I also printed my own rollers based on the tools I used in zbrush.
so I could fix and fill some parts that got broken in the process, and later on that I will be able to use on the Monsterclay cast
wanted to make a Monsterclay cast in order to make the final plaster mold and not destroy my 3d print master.
So: rebound sleeve, and thin plaster mother mold.
Slushing a generous amount of Monsterclay and voila, a Monsterclay copy I can rework and finally cast.
Up to the latex casting and start painting
And hair prunching using yak hair
At this point I was using four seal studio eye for the one on the side and I was missing a cowl.
So here goes upgrade number one.
A quick cowl sculpted in clay and quickly cast in latex too.
And for the last part: learning how to make eyes and replace the fourth seal one, no problem with their eyes but I like to do everything myself if possible.
So I followed the course here on eye making, replicating the mold style used in the video.
sculpted and 3d printed the eyes ( I wanted the white part to be bumpy and catch some spec highlights like real eyes do)
"I spared no expense"!
Thanks for looking if you stayed that long.
Stay spooky!
I initially debuted this costume for Monsterpalooza in 2019 and upgraded it since then.
I wanted to push what a small 3d printer could do and learn all the techniques involved in making a latex mask: casting, painting, hair punching, and now eyes were still new to me.
some 3d Wip, sculpted in zbrush and split the model to many parts in order to be printed at full scale on the form2
Puzzle Time!
I also printed my own rollers based on the tools I used in zbrush.
so I could fix and fill some parts that got broken in the process, and later on that I will be able to use on the Monsterclay cast
wanted to make a Monsterclay cast in order to make the final plaster mold and not destroy my 3d print master.
So: rebound sleeve, and thin plaster mother mold.
Slushing a generous amount of Monsterclay and voila, a Monsterclay copy I can rework and finally cast.
Up to the latex casting and start painting
And hair prunching using yak hair
At this point I was using four seal studio eye for the one on the side and I was missing a cowl.
So here goes upgrade number one.
A quick cowl sculpted in clay and quickly cast in latex too.
And for the last part: learning how to make eyes and replace the fourth seal one, no problem with their eyes but I like to do everything myself if possible.
So I followed the course here on eye making, replicating the mold style used in the video.
sculpted and 3d printed the eyes ( I wanted the white part to be bumpy and catch some spec highlights like real eyes do)
"I spared no expense"!
Thanks for looking if you stayed that long.
Stay spooky!
