I wasn't sure where to post this. It is a figure...of sorts, but it's also part of a larger diorama that's in the works.
It's a bit of a mixed media sculpture, the main pieces of the chair are made out of blue insulation foam...the thick stuff you get from Lowe's. The "telescope" is made from a piece of dowel rod surrounded with small paper tubes and bits of straws cut in half for the ribbing. The jockey itself and most of the parts with the inscribed detail are from various McFarlane figures. The turn table is the top from a jar of peanutbutter.
I blended it all together and skinned it using paper clay which is made of paper and volcanic ash. It acts like clay, but air dries and you can sand and drill it like wood.
All of the organic tube work was done with a product called 3D paint. It's mostly used for drawing/detailing shirts or other fabrics. I've used it a time or two for organic detail and it works great, although you have to let it dry throughly or else you risk flattening it with simple handling.
Based it all in black, then went to town dry brushing with gunmetal and silver on the chair parts, and different shades of beige on the jockey. Then I finished it off with a wash of redish brown here and there for the rust look.
(I don't know why it would have rust, but that's how it looked in the movie.)
P.S. I know it's not movie accurate, I was putting my own artistic spin on it while only using stuff I had on hand. I would like to say that the total spent on this was $0, but I did, at some point in the past, buy everything that was used.
Except for the insulation foam, I found that along side the highway.
Chestbuster exit wound...where the hell did that little bastard go?
It's a bit of a mixed media sculpture, the main pieces of the chair are made out of blue insulation foam...the thick stuff you get from Lowe's. The "telescope" is made from a piece of dowel rod surrounded with small paper tubes and bits of straws cut in half for the ribbing. The jockey itself and most of the parts with the inscribed detail are from various McFarlane figures. The turn table is the top from a jar of peanutbutter.
I blended it all together and skinned it using paper clay which is made of paper and volcanic ash. It acts like clay, but air dries and you can sand and drill it like wood.
All of the organic tube work was done with a product called 3D paint. It's mostly used for drawing/detailing shirts or other fabrics. I've used it a time or two for organic detail and it works great, although you have to let it dry throughly or else you risk flattening it with simple handling.
Based it all in black, then went to town dry brushing with gunmetal and silver on the chair parts, and different shades of beige on the jockey. Then I finished it off with a wash of redish brown here and there for the rust look.
(I don't know why it would have rust, but that's how it looked in the movie.)
P.S. I know it's not movie accurate, I was putting my own artistic spin on it while only using stuff I had on hand. I would like to say that the total spent on this was $0, but I did, at some point in the past, buy everything that was used.
Except for the insulation foam, I found that along side the highway.
Chestbuster exit wound...where the hell did that little bastard go?
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