Cylon Soldier - work in progress

Post by **jwpattr** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:58 pm

I've decided to try and create a Cylon Soldier helmet. I've started out with a plaster of paris mold of an old helmet my son had laying around. Then I created some full scale drawings of the helmet and added the parts I will need to make it into a Cylon Soldier. I am planning on making a vacuum forming machine and attempting to pull two halves of the helmet from plastic. I've snapped a few photos of the progress I've made so far.

YouTube · Post by **Cylon-Knight** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:10 am

jwpattr - this is GREAT!

Can't wait to see more of the build, and about your vac forming machine. Please keep us posted and lots and lots of photos too!

YouTube · Post by **groupleaderzeta** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:13 am

What helmet is that you used to make the plaster mold of?
looks german or sweadish.

GZ

Post by **GoldCylon** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:37 am

So what is the story behind this design? Looks like from Caprica. Looks great so far.

Post by **jwpattr** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:25 pm

The plaster cast was of my son's Darth Vader helmet as a starting point for this project. I only cast it about halfway up (given that it was upside down while casting) but should have gone up about another inch for this design. I filled the center with Great Stuff foam to help make it tougher. The Design itself was inspired from some photos from a posted here: http://darthmojo.wordpress.com/2008/05/ ... of-a-cylon. I really like the way the Big Cylon Soldier looks, it makes the cylon look even more mean and nasty than they already do. I also figured there are a whole bunch of "old style" cylon helmets being worked on so I thought I would try something different for mine. Hope you like it :evillaugh:

!! I am planning on making my own vaccum forming machine based on the one by Ralis Kahn and the awesome post here on this forum about vaccum forming by "Big Al".

Post by **GoldCylon** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:14 pm

The ol'e Razor Cylon CG to real prop. Yeah I had about 70% of it completed when I sent it off to be finished, but that never happened. Well you are at a good start so far, but you have the easy stuff done so far. I had fun working on my helmet, and it was looking great to the point I stopped.

Post by **Hand-Schaub** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:40 am

Cool - I like it. As a WWII re-enactor I always thought a hybrid German soldier/Jin-Rho (sp?)/Cylon sort of thing would be cool too.

Post by **Red Eye** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:55 am

Interesting new design, indeed...

Can't wait to see the next update!

Post by **jwpattr** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 12:53 am

I've started the face by carving a block of balsa wood using patterns I copied from my drawing. Here are some pictures, it needs lots of sanding but it is looking good so far.

Post by **GoldCylon** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 12:58 am

Awesome job so far. Looking great.

Post by **Red Eye** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:01 am

Yes, it's really coming together now!

Keep up the good work!

YouTube · Post by **Cylon-Knight** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:43 am

A+

Can't wait for more.

YouTube · Post by **groupleaderzeta** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:47 am

looking good

Post by **Hand-Schaub** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 12:48 pm

Keep it up. I love custom helmet jobs - there is so much more room for expression and I often find that the product comes out beter than when we do a reproduction.

YouTube · Post by **groupleaderzeta** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 3:27 pm

I enjoy doing custom work, the challenges, the colorful metaphors, and fun. As a certain admin keeps commenting on in chat

To see what I been up to, http://lordshijo.blogspot.com/

GZ

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