I have been getting so excited for Star Wars Celebration V and I somehow got side tracked looking at cosplay and eventually landed on a really good WIP for Chewie on The Dented Helmet.
The tutorial mentions creating an underskull to support the laytex/rubber skin and fur. Well the underskull created for the WIP required too much sculpting for me and I thought that a pepakura file could be used to create the same effect and much easier to build.
So here is an underskull I created:
Chewbacca_Underskull.pdo
The next step would be to fiberglass and smooth the piece. The use sculpty clay to create the face details like the lips and nose. Next cast a mold for the laytex/rubber skin over lay. Pull a few skins and test fit them over the underskull.
After the skin is pulled the underskull will be modified to create the working jaw with teeth.
Finally the skull will be covered with a mesh neck cloth to cover the back of the head, glue the skin to the skull and then latch hook and glue hair to the head.
I plan on following as much of the WIP on TDH as possible but there are a lot of pieces that still need to be filled in.
So, what do you guys think of the file? Are there any ideas or suggestions you guys have?
The tutorial mentions creating an underskull to support the laytex/rubber skin and fur. Well the underskull created for the WIP required too much sculpting for me and I thought that a pepakura file could be used to create the same effect and much easier to build.
So here is an underskull I created:
Chewbacca_Underskull.pdo
The next step would be to fiberglass and smooth the piece. The use sculpty clay to create the face details like the lips and nose. Next cast a mold for the laytex/rubber skin over lay. Pull a few skins and test fit them over the underskull.
After the skin is pulled the underskull will be modified to create the working jaw with teeth.
Finally the skull will be covered with a mesh neck cloth to cover the back of the head, glue the skin to the skull and then latch hook and glue hair to the head.
I plan on following as much of the WIP on TDH as possible but there are a lot of pieces that still need to be filled in.
So, what do you guys think of the file? Are there any ideas or suggestions you guys have?