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You just made my day.

looks great! loving the helmet!

 Insane Smile wrote:
You just made my day.

Well then this should make your... millennium?

 SickSick6 wrote:

 Insane Smile wrote:
You just made my day.

Well then this should make your... millennium?

Yes, it did. The 41st one to be precise.

That is looking awesome! Pauldrons will go a long way.

 Moltar wrote:
That is looking awesome! Pauldrons will go a long way.

Pauldrons!? Who said anything about pauldrons! Oh wait..





HohohomyfreakingGAWD this thing is huge!



Just a few more touchups here & there and it's finished structurally. Gotta patch up the sole on the left foot. cuz it started coming off :/
And after seeing it in the photo I decided it was too spiky on the left side so I removed the knee spike, Would have flipped the pauldrons, but the supports are custom to each side. More soon

Looks awesome! Having battled it out with EVA this month I have nothing but respect for your crafting skills!!!

Ermahgherd ERPDERT!

Another day passes. More foam. More work. More staying up til 6am folding, heating & gluing... more hot glue burns

AND MOAR STUFFS!!





My fix for wobbly pauldrons. Here we have a triangular spaulder with 4 1" T sections of PVC hot glued & secured in place with glue & EVA foam strips.

Pauldron Reinforcement





Inside each pauldron are 4 3/4" PVC pipes wrapped in felt for padding to make a more tight fit. I then filled the inside of the pauldron with expanding foam so that gak ain't goin NOWHERE!





Also filled in the spaulders with expanding foam and reinforced them with a foot long 1/2" PVC pipe going from the shoulder to the chest inside the torso.

Bracer Details



Fly of Nurgle had to go on this costume somewhere



Added 4 small skulls about the size of a finger tip on the left bracer wrist.

I've also nearly finished the cowl & Destroyer Hive



Ran out of expanding foam reinforcing everything, but after I get more I plan on adding some details around the Destroyer Hive pipes with foam. I also plan on securing the cowl to the torso somehow. Might use clips or I may end up just gluing it to the torso. Still need to finish the soles of the feet & find a large tree branch or a small sapling for the Manreaper. I think I might go down to the bay & see if I can find a nice piece of driftwood. That gak always looks gnarly.

A question on coating:
I have 4 options of coating at my disposal. PVA glue, Plasti-dip, Smooth-on Epsilon polyurethane & spraypaint. I was previously planning on saving the paint for last, but should I paint prior to the smooth-on so it adheres better & has a protective coating? Thanks in advance for any helpful tips.

666

I may have licked the computer screen in excitement. :3

*yaaaaawwwwn* g'mornin. Well, the foam was done expanding this morning & I trimmed a little bit off and tested the pauldrons. Actually ended up scrapping the felt because the foam drying & setting set the PVC pipes in a different angle so they wedge in on sheer tension alone. Still a lil wobbly though so I plan on adding another PVC socket connecting the cowl to the inside top of the pauldrons.

So, without further adieu.. I give you..



PEGLEG TYPHUS!!!

"Don't worry Typhus. Even though you got your legs chopped off, here in the 41st millennium we have the technology to replace your legs with indiscernible augmetics. I'll have your new legs baked up in a day or two. In the mean time uh.. we have these.. "substitutions".. for you. ... "

And this is the tapestry I'll use for my bag o Nurglings

Looking solid and btw I love your cat in the background there, very nurgle .

Yeah that's my fuzzy unclean one He's a 20lb maincoon.


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First test run on full assembly. Sorry for the quality. My friend's camera phone.

This looks awesome so far but I can't see the last picture.

mudhutman222 wrote:
This looks awesome so far but I can't see the last picture.

Yeah, sorry it was link to my gmail rather than uploaded & I think it may have expired. I'll upload a better pic soon.

Small update for today, I have my handle for the scythe:

Take THAT Tree!



I saw this limb out behind the dumpster at my apartment complex. It was perfect in size & shape for the handle of the Manreaper. Problem was it was about 9 ft up over a ditch with a 2 ft drop at the edge of the parking lot so VERY precarious. I tried sawing into it & ants started pouring out. At that point I gave up & decided to wait for a tree branch a freind had but that ended up being too small so this morning with my mitre saw & dining room chair in hand I went at that fugger for about 30min with the sawing & the pulling & the breaking and eventually ended up swinging from it to get it to break but I GOT IT! FHAK YOO TREE!!!! Then I proceeded to drown it in Raid ant killer. It wasn't teeming with ants like I thought but there were still a few on the outside so just for good measure.

And here is what I have done on the scythe so far:



EVA foam for the handle & guard & worbla for the blade. Only 2 more days til Halloween but I think I can at least get the first layer done.

Might want to consider drying that out, being green wood and all...

Should have left the ants. Totally would have added to the effect.

 Wehrkind wrote:
Should have left the ants. Totally would have added to the effect.

I'd been very very scared of you if you did.

You can always glue meal worms and wax worms to it. They at least won't crawl around and bite you as much

 keezus wrote:
Might want to consider drying that out, being green wood and all...

Nah, the branch is dead. It's just soaked in Raid in the picture. I let it sit out there all day to dry & plan on retreiving it when I get home from work.

 Wehrkind wrote:
Should have left the ants. Totally would have added to the effect.

Haha yeah! Bugs for the Bug God! I actually thought of getting a bunch of plastic toy flies for the Destroyer Hive. Maybe later down the line.

This is so cool you should use an great unclean one as a nurgling

 smeg wrote:
This is so cool you should use an great unclean one as a nurgling

Haha, or get a bunch of old Boglins off eBay to stick around your armor!

 Oaka wrote:

 smeg wrote:
This is so cool you should use an great unclean one as a nurgling

Haha, or get a bunch of old Boglins off eBay to stick around your armor!

^^^^

YES!

THOSE!!!

eBay! Nao!

edit: Oh :( but so expensive for something I'd be throwing at people at 'cons. Damn you 80's rareness!


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Here's a pic of the Manreaper so far. It also hangs a LOT because of its weight. I plan on drilling a hole through the staff & running a steel bar through it & into a pipe inside the blade.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!



Wore the suit to work today. Sooooo many pics. So many people asking how long it took me to build. Sadly, I forgot to glue some of the PVC pipes together so just as I turned the corner to enter the main area of the call center where everyone could see me I got a round of applause followed by hip dysplasia. "Ow, my hip!" Then later the knee joint came loose. Other than that & the fact that the Nurgle spores on the back ended up closer to butt level than middle of the back I'd say it was a fairly successful test run.

Just amazing!!!

 SickSick6 wrote:
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I would take that hand...

There is no time for peace. No respite. No forgiveness

There is only PAPERWORK.

 Moltar wrote:
There is no time for peace. No respite. No forgiveness

There is only PAPERWORK.

I'm still loling as I type this. "Hand in your badge and headset and meet your servitor at the door! He has your things in a box!"

Holy wow ... or UNholy wow, as the case may be.

Really awesome outfit
So much respect man

Thanks guys!

Well, Halloween may have passed but its back to work on the costume again. First order of business is the Manreaper. Stopped by the art store today & picked up a few provisions: 15 plastic toy flies & a 10" long 1/4" thick steel rod.



Took the gorilla tape off and yes, it is actually quite easy to just mold worbla over the gap and it can be sanded down for a much less tape-edge-tastic look. I also glued a 6" piece of PVC at an angle under the blade to the handle & the steel rod is going through the handle, into a PVC pipe inside the blade. Just as planned >:}



I plan on gluing these guys onto the Destroyer Hive pipes. After a bit more nurglish of a paint job of course

and last but not least...

Manreaper 2.1!



Chicks dig giant scythes yo Fugger weighs like 30lbs!!!