Hair Today....

Well I spent the night gluing hair on yoda...

Turned out pretty good. I am happy!

It's Not Easy Painting Green....

I painted yoda green. I had to mix liquid latex with water to dilute it and added acrylic green for color. The first couple coats didn't work well...and the airbrush kept clogging up!!!

Finally I got the mixture better and the third coat worked out better. Last night I added some detail by hand. I painted on wrinkles and some age spots.

Here he is now. I still need to cut out the latex where the eyes are and place my eyes that I ordered. I'll also add some white hair.

He's getting there...

Yoda...YAY!

My Yoda arrived. I was expecting some pretty bad air bubble holes near the eyes, but it really wasn't too bad.

I took some liquid latex and at first I was trying to be carefull to smoothly fill the holes...but then I decided to use the latex to paint on grooves to simulate wrinkles. It totally adds to the realism! That being said I think I will paint a base coat of green using the airbrush, then I will paint the details by hand...and be sure to leave lines in the right places to look like wrinkles. It should be fun!

Here he is before any painting. I think he's a bit too thin so I will likely fill him out a bit. I also have to cut my skeleton feet back a bit and run some wires in the saber hand so he can hold it on his own.

Filling, Sanding, Painting...

I had to use body filler in the garage with a heater aimed right on the helmet cuz it's cold out there (the fumes smell up the house). I spent the day sanding, sandning, sanding.

I had troubles with some areas where the glue was since the one glue that worked (PLumbers Goop) is pretty elastic, so it can't be sanded. I tried to cover it with filler.

It really does look better in person, and once the final paint job is done I want it to look beat up anyways...so it will be fine.

A Little More Fett Progress

I got the cheek pieces filled in. They didn't fit very well....but bondo will fix that later.

I also cut away more of the pieces holding the chin together. I left a piece that is set just a bit back so the lens is able to slide overtop. This way it will hold it's shape, and the lens will still go in place.

Fett Progress..and a Yoda Imposter

I spent some time last night working of the Fett Helmet. The tricky think is working on those cheeks, but now that it is together I just have to fill it in.














I tried putting the yoda ears on my dog..but that lasted all of 3 seconds. Gollum didn't seem to mind.

Fett Update

HOLY CRAP this thing is tough to glue. I have tried 5 different types of glue. This industrial strength bucket must be made with krypronite!

I tried using pvc glue (for pvc pipes) and it seems to work, but it doesn't melt the pastic at all to create that really good bond. I hope it holds!

































The challenging part will be fitting in pieces for that curved cheek area. That is next.

Yoda's head, hands and feet should arrive any day now... :)

Fett Helmet, and Yoda Dressed

After trying to find some kind of plastic to use to attempt to make a Boba Fett helmet I found Home Depot buckets. I picked up a couple, traced out the templates and used my Dremel to cut out the pieces. Then I had to find a batters helmet. Luckily I found one at Wal Mart for $15. I cut it down, sanded it as flat as I could and started gluing it all together.
















This is a pic of the rangefinder arm that goes up one side of the helmet. I had these cut out at work. I cleaned one of them up with a file.

















Here is yoda's new clothing. Now I just need hands feet and his head. Hopefully they arrive this week.

Boba Fett....while I wait...

I am still waiting for my Yoda head, hands and feet and costume to arrive so in the meantime I found plans for a Boba Fett helmet. Might make a little project out of it..at least for me and my little bro.

Here are a couple pics of my crazy carpet/duct tape mock up. I think if I can get some thicker plastic and a batters helmet for the top, this should turn out pretty good.