Time to start running with a new thread with a build I'm actually working on.... Someone bought my Blue Beetle before I completed it.... :unsure
Funny how all the Iron Man builds have their own flavor or style even though it's the same thing. This would be why I'm posting, I might as well add to the Predator pile. I definitely have been borrowing ideas from this thread: http://www.therpf.com/f24/predator-c...photos-164209/ and with the help of JFcustom starting with his mask: http://www.therpf.com/f24/foam-speed...-added-148889/ and more....
I have made a few suits the past year and my family is looking at me asking why they haven't had one made for them. This concept actually started with my daughter. I saw a pink Predator and asked if she wanted to be one. She said purple and pink....works for me. Then at dinner she is bragging about the suit I will be making for her..... which my son says he wants one....then my wife said she wanted one to. Huh, a family of Predators eh? Why not....
I started through the motions of thinking this will be a quick build... 2D armor only worrying about the dreadlocks (the quantity, not building them) and then JFcustom sends a detailed image of the armor. Heh, oh look, texture.... One thing I've noticed is that hammered paint does not give the effect I like when you are looking at it from a distance. It's hard for the details to show up on camera too... in my opinion of course. There are a lot of ways to create texture, I'm going with what I'm good at, using a heat knife. - 5-In-1 Hobby Woodburner
CLIFFNOTES: Basketball court foam (out of stock), heat knife for texture, not doing latex suits - just regular suit of whatever color they chose, testing Epsilon for sealing (I have never sealed my foam before...ever), and I'm doing four of them...
Funny how all the Iron Man builds have their own flavor or style even though it's the same thing. This would be why I'm posting, I might as well add to the Predator pile. I definitely have been borrowing ideas from this thread: http://www.therpf.com/f24/predator-c...photos-164209/ and with the help of JFcustom starting with his mask: http://www.therpf.com/f24/foam-speed...-added-148889/ and more....
I have made a few suits the past year and my family is looking at me asking why they haven't had one made for them. This concept actually started with my daughter. I saw a pink Predator and asked if she wanted to be one. She said purple and pink....works for me. Then at dinner she is bragging about the suit I will be making for her..... which my son says he wants one....then my wife said she wanted one to. Huh, a family of Predators eh? Why not....
I started through the motions of thinking this will be a quick build... 2D armor only worrying about the dreadlocks (the quantity, not building them) and then JFcustom sends a detailed image of the armor. Heh, oh look, texture.... One thing I've noticed is that hammered paint does not give the effect I like when you are looking at it from a distance. It's hard for the details to show up on camera too... in my opinion of course. There are a lot of ways to create texture, I'm going with what I'm good at, using a heat knife. - 5-In-1 Hobby Woodburner
CLIFFNOTES: Basketball court foam (out of stock), heat knife for texture, not doing latex suits - just regular suit of whatever color they chose, testing Epsilon for sealing (I have never sealed my foam before...ever), and I'm doing four of them...
