"Dark Crystal" Skeksis Costume - Page 2

rogue4 · #11 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 12:15 PM

Pulled apart the mother mold this morning to see how the wax casting turned out, and everything looks great so far.

We will post some pictures of the wax casting later this evening if all goes well, and we will work on making the final plaster mold using the wax casting on Saturday.

Once we have the final plaster mother mold, we can begin pouring the latex.

rogue4 · #12 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 04:15 PM

Umolding of Wax Casting
(October 5th, 2007)

Wax Casting in Mother Mold - Empty Half of Mother Mold

rogue4 · #13 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 08:04 PM

Pictures of the costume and of the unpainted latex mask should be posted by the end of next week. Also, we will hopefully have pictures posted of the stomach and back structures that will add a sense of realism to the costume.

rogue4 · #14 (**permalink**) 10-09-2007, 03:19 PM

Pictures of the new, six part plaster mold and of the rough draft latex mask will be posted shortly. :-)

dionicia · #15 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 03:52 PM

I feel like an idiot in suspense.

rogue4 · #16 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 11:18 PM

It's gonna be good... ;-)

dionicia · #17 (**permalink**) 10-23-2007, 07:32 AM

Are you going to wait until Halloween to unveil this???

rogue4 · #18 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 06:10 AM

Probably... ;-)

Luckily we have the pictures, but we've been spending every free hour getting the costume ready since the contests are all towards the end of this week. I will try to post some tonight after we get back from shopping.

The costume is pretty much complete, the final latex mask looks AMAZING (it's really thick and holds its shape perfectly), and with the edition of UV LEDs that are placed into the back of the eyeballs, I'd say that we just about nailed it for this year.

I can only imagine how good this costume will look next year when we work on armatures for the arms and install a CCTV system to help with movement. :-)