Winged Demon that I'm working on

Cassie7 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 06:21 AM

I have several little bluckys that I got from Oriental Trading for $2.50 each. I've been wanting to mess with them and I started yesterday.

Here's what they look like straight from the bag. They're about 2' tall. I call them baby bluckys

Using an Xacto knife, I gouged out the eyes and cut between the teeth (I cut the teeth at an angle to make them sharp). I cut a bit back along the jaw line and under the neck to help open the mouth.

I took a second baby blucky and used two leg and two arm bones to make the basic structure of the demon wings. I cut holes in the shoulder blades to plug them in to.

I also made new holes to plug the legs into to facilitate the pose. I haven't worked the arm pose yet though.

This is basically where I am at right now. I think it looks pretty neat for a cheap baby blucky already. So far the cost is about $5 because I had to cannibalise a second baby blucky's arms and legs to do the wings.

I'm planning to do some cotton/latex to give it a little bulk here and there (and to strengthen some joints) but I want it to look more skeletal then meaty (if you catch my drift). And then I'll airbrush it to a proper evil, rotted looking finish.

I am making hands and feet with wire, tape and latex because there is just no use for the stock blucky ones.

I'm not sure what to make the wing material out of but right now I'm thinking of latex coated gauze with a wire frame.

I'm also thinking of just putting an LED light inside the head to illuminate it like you would a jack-o-lantern.

But that's where this project is at the moment.

Bear · #2 (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 06:32 AM

Very creative...can't wait to see it finished.

Cassie7 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-13-2007, 12:37 PM

I managed to get some more work done on him today. BTW, we've named him Moe.

I made bony spines out of Crayola Model Magic clay and hot glued them on to the wings and his spine.

Using gauze, wire and hot glue, I made the wings.

I airbrushed the wings in trans black but I didn't like the look of the gauze pattern showing through so I brushed them lightly with liquid latex. I like the look now.

I also airbrushed shadows on Moe's skull and bones and I really like the look.

I began adding some cotton/latex tendons on the skull. I'm going to do this on the limbs too but I want to keep them to a minimum. I'm going for a more boney look than fleshy/zombie effect.

I wish I had made the wings bigger. Oh well, next time

Here are some up date pics...

I've gotten the hands about done and set aside but still need to do the feet. No way in hell am I going to use those stock blucky hands and feet LOL

Cassie7 · #4 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 10:50 PM

I began making the feet/toes. I took the Blucky foot and cut off the toe part. I then inserted my wrapped wires and taped them in place. I'm doing them the same way as I do my Zombie hands. If you want to see how I do my hands, go to my homepage in my sig and click on 'Zombie Hand How-To'.

Then I decided on a pose and hot glued the pelvis to torso and arm and leg joints in place. Then I hot glued my make-shift hands and feet in place.

I have my final body pose set in place (I haven't posed the fingers and toes yet though)

Now I move on to adding some meat to the hands, feet and joints with cotton and carpet latex. Some of it is for looks, and some is for stability of the prop.

In this pic, I've begun working on the hand and arm on the left side of the pic. The rest are still in their raw taped form.