Thank you all for the kind words!! This is my first build to go this far towards completion, and your encouragement means more than you know!
Planning on adding black cheese-cloth to the eye sockets? On that note, it would be a fun change to make them glow as well.
Still, I have to worry about using spot putty as glue for the teeth, as a fair amount of my frusturation comes from it cracking / flaking off.
I've definitely thought about doing something like that! And although I am convinced I can build a simple rig to make the eye's glow, I'm not so sure I would be able to see with it installed! So I'll probably end up doing that eventually, even if it will only work for display.
The spotting putty actually made a great glue! I wouldn't trust it to hold up to being dropped straight on the teeth, but the clay I build up over the edges keeps them very solid and would made a nice socket of a quick and easy re-gluing if needed.
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I got impatient and decided to start painting anyways. With Anime Boston growing closer everyday, I'm not convinced that I would be able to sell casts in time to pay for it. But if there is any interest at all, I suppose I can pay for AB out of pocket, and sell casts afterwards to make up the expense. Anyways;
This is the black undercoat, which will only show in the teeth and eye details. It brought out more imperfections that the primer didn't. Oh well. :/
The details taped off.
The white topcoat! For some reason, the white paint doesn't feel as
thick as the black paint, even though they are the same brand and type. I'm not sure why, perhaps it's just my imagination. I was worried that removing the painters tape would screw up the paint job, but it came off just fine!
This is where I'm at now. I scrawled the stripes on the mask, and am carefully taping and erasing. It's tedious and time consuming, and I can't help but think there was a better way. But I started it this way, I might as well finish!
Side-note: I weighed the mask on my shipping scale, and it is exactly 15.1oz. (428.1g) Which according to Wolfram Alpha, is 1.2 times the weight of a 12oz. can of soda.