Hardest part done and I like it!

No, not this one. This is the shoulder, quite easy.

Here we go.

Antenna.

Oh my...

Yeah!

So, the helmet. Definitely the hardest part of the whole build due to the very threedimensional shape of it. The planning and headscratching took the whole weekend, but all in all just a couple of days of actual cutting/gluing and I got that done. The rest of this armour is composed of very flat shapes so I'm still confident that I can do this in time...and some sleepless nights.

I can also say that seeing myself in the mirror with THAT on my head made me giggle a bit :d

Here we really go!

What's this then? Says it on the label: Detonator Orgun! 

Oh yeaaaaaaa....

Doesn't look like Orgun you say? How observant of you. This is a piece that goes under all that white, to get the bulkiness and also to act as a base to which I can secure all that...armour. I have mockups of the whole upper body lying around here, but they're not photogenic just yet so you just have to believe me here.

I'm confident and utterly pumped, been planning and testing this for a while now in between other stuff.

Trying to mend my lack of knowledge

No pain, no gain. The axe has these little blades on the back, but because of my lack of experience with expanding foam (or anything really, this is my first prop that has come this far) I did not make a proper template for the foam to stick on...or where I'm going to cut! These might be redone, but we'll see now that the foam is drying again.

Update

There's something weird going on in the last picture and it's not related to that axe there...

Slightly failing only means more work.

Aka if life gives you lemons you throw them back. Even though my application of the foam was slightly flawed the other side at least had enough to try my hand at sculpting this. Hopefully in two days I'll get the base properly foamed. I also realized that I need to mix some methods here, mostly because I did not make a core for every part of the axe so sculpting for instance the round parts where the blade attaches could result in a disaster.

Excited, that I am.