Thorssoli's Isaac Clarke Engineering Rig from Dead Space 2

[thorssoli]

I started this project a couple of months ago and now I'm finally at a point where I'm willing to post pictures of it. Here's a reference:


I've started with the helmet. In order to make sure I had a good dome shape to start with, I stripped the padding out of a child-sized, open-faced motorcycle helmet. With the padding removed, there's lots of room inside. Then I stuck it on top of a sculpting armature:


Over the top of the helmet I started sculpting the separate panels in clay:


Once I had roughed out a few of the general shapes, I cut some card stock to give me an idea of how to form up the faceplate:


Using the card stock as a template, I formed the faceplate by heating up some thick styrene sheet and forming them over the side of a bucket to get a uniform curve. Here's the beginning:


The whole thing was formed with two layers of 1/8" styrene for a base, then a variety of details cut from thinner sheet stock. I also used a bit of bondo here and there to fill in some spots and smooth things out. Here's the result with a coat of primer:


In order to make it shiny and smooth, I went ahead and sprayed it with gloss pink:


I also continued to refine the details at the back of the helmet:


The sides too:


I've still got a bit of tweaking left to do, but then it'll be time to mold this guy.

The plan is to rotocast the dome and cast the faceplate separately. This way the helmet can be smaller and more form-fitting while still making it possible to get your head in and out.

I'm also planning on vacforming the bulk of the other parts of the costume with resin cast detail parts as needed.

Stay tuned...

[Tactonyx]

Cool. You gonna stick with the standard plasma cutter like everyone else, or are you going to go above and beyond with the pulse rifle. You got my vote for the Pulse Rifle.

[BLACKULA727]

SO awesome!!!!! I love what you do. I've seen some pics on FB. I've been waiting to see where this goes. Nice job so far.

[ninjalchemist]

this looks pretty great. the RIG helmet is one of the cooler video game helmets IMO, and you've done a good job replicating it so far. keep up the good work.

[TheBearMan]

Thats rly nice work man.

I cant wait to see this project at its end!

Keep up the good work i will be keeping an eye on this one!!

[Starvinartist80]

Thor,
I love following your work. Keep the updates coming.

[Sisko4]

Wow, that looks like it came out of the Game!

Can´t wait for the Mold^^

[kolinrulz]

I love everything about it.

[thorssoli]

So yesterday I finished making tiny changes to the sculpt for the dome. Mostly I added a ridge around the brow and notches along the sides so that the faceplate would mate up properly to the rest of the helmet:
I also finished fixing up the details on the back of the helmet, but I neglected to take any pictures of them before I started slathering them with grape-scented plurple goo.

Here's the beginning of the pouring for the faceshield:


And coating the dome:


Here's the faceshield after the print coat had started to set up:


Same for the dome:


Here's the first coat of thickened pink silicone on the faceplate:


And the dome with a nice thick coat of pink silicone:


Today I'll be adding at least one more coat of pink thixotropic silicone over everything as well as a few pieces of some recently retired molds to act as registration keys. Then it'll all get another coat of plurple to smooth it out.

Stay tuned...

[thorn696]

As always it is nice to watch you're work and this will probably turn out as epic as all the rest of you're work. So please keep us posted, for I as one would like to see how it turns out.