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Author Topic: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Final pictures- pic heavy 25/3)  (Read 10631 times)

Offline Elk101

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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2018, 01:33:03 PM »
'Elvis Lives!' graffiti is now a must too, mate.
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Or "Elvis has left the building".

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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty
« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2018, 11:01:03 AM »
that is a ambitious sculpt
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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty
« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2018, 02:25:32 PM »
lol
Buy a (big) souvenir?  :D
Or fly a drone around the head and make a 3D model and then 3D print it. Except that I don't think you're allowed to  fly a drone there... :D

I dare say, you could probably find a souvenir somewhere and cut it up, maybe even just find a head somewhere, but that’d be more than the 25% commercially bought items for the build! ....anyway, where’s the challenge in that? ;)

Buy a mask...for example:

http://www.successcreations.com/Statue-of-Liberty-Masquerade-Mask-in-Silver-p/c-0169.htm

Of course, to qualify as no more than 25% commercial you would need to scratch build even more stuff, but that would be to our advantage for gawking at.
 :D



I think the mask would be too big mate. The face is supposed to be just over 8 feet high. So I’m trying to scale it round that.

that is a ambitious sculpt

Hopefully! ;)

The clay has dried, but it’s all cracked. I don’t think it’ll matter though, I’m planning on Green Stuffing the shit out of it!(to paraphrase Matt Damon!)

Now on to the difficult bit, sculpting the face!


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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2018, 04:10:25 PM »
I think the mask would be too big mate. The face is supposed to be just over 8 feet high. So I’m trying to scale it round that.

D'oh!.....
 ::) ::)

I reckon you should work withose cracks, mate.
A nice touch.
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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2018, 12:09:39 AM »
Ach! No worries about the cracks....they disappear underneath the GS mate! To keep them would be too awkward!

So, today’s work involved starting with the crown/tiara thingy. I’ve cut two discs of plastic card using my circle cutter, then cut a strip that tapers toward each end to make the discs sit at angles to each other.



I’ve managed to build up the first layers of GS on the face too.....is it just me or does it look like Daniel Craig? :-[ The names Liberty....Statue of Liberty! ;)



Hopefully with more GS on the face will make it look better! :?

I’ve also put some more putty around the base of the arm. This will give me a starting point for the folds of the cloth when I do it with Green Stuff....





Last thing for today(it’s been a productive day!) is the torch. Again, this will be covered in GS to detail it. The clay and plastic card is just to give it the right shape and bulk it out.....


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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2018, 01:17:42 AM »
This is already looking the dogs danglies, mate.
 8) 8) 8)


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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2018, 05:56:19 AM »
That is some mean display of skill.  8) 8) 8)
The Fatty and his friends looking on in the background are a perfect setting too, what with the Statue of Liberty being lost in the tangle of cityblocks in the Judge Dredd storyline.

It only started looking like Daniel Craig AFTER you pointed it out, and I can't unsee it!
But it looks more like the real statue.  :D

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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2018, 07:33:50 AM »
incredible

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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2018, 07:58:23 AM »
You have silly amounts of talents at your disposal. I an inclined to chuck my project in the bin, seeing yours.

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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2018, 07:28:40 AM »
Brilliant stuff Andy.
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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2018, 09:45:11 AM »
Incredible work so far, this is going to be an amazing one to watch unfold I think

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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2018, 10:34:27 AM »
Looking good :-* :-* :-*
Torch looks big, have you got a picture next to the face
And what is the ill advised  bit? Danial Craig doing drag lol

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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #27 on: January 17, 2018, 12:17:42 PM »
Thanks for the support everybody! 8)

You have silly amounts of talents at your disposal. I an inclined to chuck my project in the bin, seeing yours.

Funny, I was thinking the same thing with the detail you’re already putting into that tower of yours!

Looking good :-* :-* :-*
Torch looks big, have you got a picture next to the face
And what is the ill advised  bit? Danial Craig doing drag lol

The torch is big, as far as I can tell. In this pic, the face looks as wide as the top of the torch. Using that as a measure, in 28mm scale, it ends up being 5cm wide.



So if the platform is 5cm wide, I can use that to scale the length of the torch, which ends up being about 12cm long.


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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #28 on: January 17, 2018, 12:20:00 PM »
 :o  Wow.  Amazing start already!

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Re: BSC2018-AndyMs Statue of Liberty(Daniel Craig lookalikey!)
« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2018, 12:37:00 PM »
Thanks Rich!

So I’ve started to cover the arm in Green Stuff.

On the reference pictures there looks to be some kind of welding between the plates that make up the arm. So I’ve scored the GS to make panel lines and I’ve used a soft clay shaper to make wee indents either side of the lines. Hopefully this will help at the painting stage to make it look interesting!





I’ve carried that on, up to where the hand will be. I’ve then drilled out the torch and pinned it with a couple of wires, used a blob of GS for extra support, and glued it to the hand. I’ll wait until that dries, then sculpt the rest of the hand and fingers around the torch.





Oh and the guard rail is cut out of really thin plastic card so the pattern would cut easy. I had some thin plastic strip, as well, that I’ve used to detail the railing. I’m not sure if I’ll go any further with the detail on the fence, I think that might be enough to give the impression I’m looking for!

 

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