Hi from PA
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:32 pm
Hi everyone,
I'm from Northeastern Pa. I'm an avid sci-fi and monster model builder since my early teens. I'm a fan of anything sci-fi and space and a fairly active amateur astronomer when not bogged down with grad classes.
I build plastic and mostly resin models. For the past several years, I have mostly been collecting and building studio scale sci-fi models. This includes assembly, modifications, lighting, designing of simple circuit boards and PIC programming for lighting sequences, painting with an airbrush and weathering or battle damage. I will also add any greeblies or other parts to make more accurate and cast any resin resin parts when needed.
Over the past year I have gotten into costuming as well and have made several costumes. So far a Star Trek TOS duty command tunic and pants as well as a S3 style dress. Also a TOS style Andorian which I modified and extended a chain mail shirt I purchased, tooled leather, sculpted antennas, cut and styled my first wig, and practiced with airbrushing body paint. I'm also currently working on for a family member for this summer a LOTR elven style outfit. This project started out simple but is now including some sculpting work that will be molded and fiberglassed for final piece.
My next few costumes I'm planning on working on over the next year is lifecasting my head, torso, legs, and arms for various sculpting projects. First sculpt will be the Andorian forhead from Star Trek Enterprise and the several Klingon foreheads. I'm also in the early stages of pepakuring a complete Doctor Who Cybermen, still cutting and assembling. This will take me several months at my rate of progress from assembling to resin, fiberglassing, and then bondoing. I have a friend helping with this so hopefully mid summer this will be completed. We are then going to use the completed set as our masters and make lighter vacuum formed version out of styrene or ABS. I might do a small run of them based on how the project turns out if anyone is interested.
Lastly I want to start on a pepkura cylon. I have all the files and it is alot simpler than the Cybermen pepakura file. I'm mostly wondering if there are better version's more screen accurate ones out there and how much? I looked through the forums and see that 2 different versions are or were for sale but unable to find reference to overall quality of products. If not, I plan on building mine up this summer to fall and fiberglass it and then vacuumform a lighter version so I can wear it more easily around a convention.
I'm from Northeastern Pa. I'm an avid sci-fi and monster model builder since my early teens. I'm a fan of anything sci-fi and space and a fairly active amateur astronomer when not bogged down with grad classes.
I build plastic and mostly resin models. For the past several years, I have mostly been collecting and building studio scale sci-fi models. This includes assembly, modifications, lighting, designing of simple circuit boards and PIC programming for lighting sequences, painting with an airbrush and weathering or battle damage. I will also add any greeblies or other parts to make more accurate and cast any resin resin parts when needed.
Over the past year I have gotten into costuming as well and have made several costumes. So far a Star Trek TOS duty command tunic and pants as well as a S3 style dress. Also a TOS style Andorian which I modified and extended a chain mail shirt I purchased, tooled leather, sculpted antennas, cut and styled my first wig, and practiced with airbrushing body paint. I'm also currently working on for a family member for this summer a LOTR elven style outfit. This project started out simple but is now including some sculpting work that will be molded and fiberglassed for final piece.
My next few costumes I'm planning on working on over the next year is lifecasting my head, torso, legs, and arms for various sculpting projects. First sculpt will be the Andorian forhead from Star Trek Enterprise and the several Klingon foreheads. I'm also in the early stages of pepakuring a complete Doctor Who Cybermen, still cutting and assembling. This will take me several months at my rate of progress from assembling to resin, fiberglassing, and then bondoing. I have a friend helping with this so hopefully mid summer this will be completed. We are then going to use the completed set as our masters and make lighter vacuum formed version out of styrene or ABS. I might do a small run of them based on how the project turns out if anyone is interested.
Lastly I want to start on a pepkura cylon. I have all the files and it is alot simpler than the Cybermen pepakura file. I'm mostly wondering if there are better version's more screen accurate ones out there and how much? I looked through the forums and see that 2 different versions are or were for sale but unable to find reference to overall quality of products. If not, I plan on building mine up this summer to fall and fiberglass it and then vacuumform a lighter version so I can wear it more easily around a convention.