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At 3/13/08 11:26 AM, Luis wrote: Have you worked with this character so much that you have no need for anything to refer to? or do you like have sketches or preliminary work of the pieces you need to build and how they will fit.

Its kind of mindblowing if youre just doing this on the fly.

for the first time in my life I can be a douche bag and claim I am using no references haha.
Actually thats a lie, everything is referenced. While im not referencing any specifc robot, Mindchamber is an amalgamation of every robot that ever scared, or inspired me when I was younger
though I do a quick sketch of each part, its mostly to remind myself of the details I want to add later. in fact I sketched the chest after I already started molding it in clay. the only thing I can say is my limited knowledge of anatomy and some luck has gotten me this far.

it probably does help I've drawn this mindchamber robot in my mind a million times over.
and he's slowing changing AGAIN because of this lil exercise.

and this figure should be about 14 to 15inches when done.

At 3/13/08 05:00 PM, Razac wrote: How are you going to colour this bad boy when its done?

a black primer, then dabbed on blue for the parts that get it,
then dry brush it with gunmetal.

basically the same way I did with the munny.

At 3/13/08 07:09 PM, Razac wrote:
and that looked awesome btw

Cant wait for this..

thanks.

minor update. the chest is connected now, still needs details. also thanks to the person that pointed it it was too high, they were right, the joints inbetween the spine added to much height so I reduced it to 2

Size reference to unicorn.. I bought him used for 10 bucks for the hands. lol

At 3/14/08 03:10 PM, SirSeraphdeFallen wrote: did you tell the person that you were going to take it apart?

judging by the stench of smoke and beer that emanated from the box he came in, I have a hunch the seller doesn't care.

So I was gonna spend alittle time working on the chest or, one of the arms.
But said screw it, carving away at the chest gets shavings all up in my nose and gives me a headache.
as for the arm, I just wasn't in the mood to mess with that just yet and wanted to do something with no moving parts.
so I decided to finally try doing the head using that superfirm scupltey and man I love it!
at first it feels like the regular stuff, but onces you starts packin it in get holds its shape really well, and once you starts using carving tools it just peels away like butter, its almost feels like moonsand stuff,

its still ruff, but man usually I have to carve cooked clay to get to this point. I was able to cut into this stuff and have it cooked and mounted within an hour.

Still crazy ruff but Im feeling it so far,

At 3/18/08 01:42 AM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote: How are you cooking these? You own a kiln? Are you just like tossing them into a microwave and hitting "thaw"?

it sez dont mic on the box >:c

throwing them in a conventional oven, covered in aluminum foil, baked at 275 for 15 to 30 minutes.

At 3/18/08 02:52 AM, TheReno wrote:
BTW if you breathe in too much clay dust, it could kill you. Your supposed to carve when its leather hard, not bone dry. Unless you'd like to die.

haha shit, that true? when is it just leatherhard? right out the oven?

I donwanna die :(

At 3/18/08 05:36 AM, Ynek wrote: Very impressive so far... It's always great to watch other people's sculptures come together.
Although personally, I usually prefer to do blindingly small sculptures... Mostly due to space restrictions and financial limitations.

that sounds incredibly hard, you should start a thread with your stuff I would love to see it.

Anyway, this is looking great at the moment... Once you've had a chance to sand the shapes smooth and clean up the sculpting work (getting rid of toolmarks etc) it'll look fantastic.

I'm hoping so.. some told me I need to use something called "sanding blocks" so Imma look into it

So, are you going to paint the finished model when you're done? Or are you going to stick with the "au naturalle" look?

It will be black and blue with bits of exposed steel here and there.

hoping something like a warhammer-ish look.,

At 3/18/08 10:19 AM, mranarchy wrote:

At 3/18/08 01:53 AM, MindChamber wrote:
throwing them in a conventional oven, covered in aluminum foil, baked at 275 for 15 to 30 minutes.

wont that melt the plastic parts?, or are you taking them off,cooking, then glueing them on...

as long as the parts are not connected to each other, all that ever happens is that they get soft..
they harden back up once it hits the air.