The Slippery Slope
Thanks to Logan74k at TheRPF.com, I’ve been alerted to the fact that the rivet arrangement is actually mirrored across both shoulders, despite the fact that the bottlecaps are only on ...
Bottlecaps and Big Ideas
I decided to make my life easy again by manufacturing a quick little jig to help me drill the holes I needed through my bottlecaps at a fixed distance and ...
A Grimace in Chrome
And then there’s the mask. Got the plugs for the gas mask hoses painted up and attached, bent a bit of thick-gauge copper wiring up and into the jaw, and ...
Roughing Out the Armor
I spent a bit of time tidying up the torso sections of my armor so that I could get ready to trim them. Bought moleskin tape, but I’m practicing trying ...
Cabling on the Mask
I detached the brass hingework for now, but took the opportunity to add the gas mask hose connectors and sub-piping. That sub-piping is actually made of very thick electrical copper ...
Jawin’ Around Town
So, Immortan Joe’s mask opens up for added drama and intimidation during one scene in the film. Today’s engineering challenge: Make that damn jaw open and close in a way that ...
Arise from the Ashes!
I decided this project was going to be something I finished for NYCC, and it is warm enough that I don’t mind dusting off my workspace again, so I’m chugging ...
Fallout Twitch Overlay
Fallout is a great game, and one I have been playing for years. Fallout 4 is hands-down my favorite installation in the series, and to coincide with its release, I ...
Never Stop Sanding!
I came back to this after some time off from tinkering with it and started assembling things in earnest. The helmet got another coat of primer and some light sanding ...
PETG Saves the Day
Torso armor’s underway properly now! I used a headlight polishing kit to slightly frost the PETG I had heat-formed because it needed a bit of definition behind the armor. Only ...
Lessons in Thermoforming
Finally made forward progress on the breastplate that wasn’t super duper frustrating. So I am using PETG sheeting in 1/16″ thickness. That’s .060″ thick, for reference. I saw TheRPF.com forums user ...
Codpiece Components
I spent some time poring over the reference imagery available and trying to identify some of the badges and emblems on Joe’s codpiece, and I think I nailed some of ...
Molding Immortan’s Mask, Part 2
My mask had some extra-scary work done. I used a scrollsaw to cut an MDF divider for the mask and bolted it together so I could start making the hard ...
Molding Immortan’s Mask, Part 1
I’m mostly just monkeying around and doing what I see other people do when it comes to making these molds. I hope I understand the process right, but I guess ...
These Boots Are Made For Ruling
I picked up a pair of these bad boys in my size off Amazon and they got delivered. They fit pretty well! They’re not real leather, but they seem to be ...
Mask Progress Continues
The gas mask hoses are the childrens’ mask ones that I ordered from eBay, but now I need to find the darker, larger hose that connects to the other end ...
Expanding on the Printed Mask
In my ongoing efforts to needlessly complicate Maria’s life, I managed to point out a bunch of inconsistencies between the 3D-printed mask I had produced and the actual screen prop. ...
The Immortan Rabbit-Hole
I have a bunch of other irons in the fire that are still half-finished or in-progress, but to hell with it, I want to post this stuff too. I really ...
Hawken Twitch Cockpit Overlay
Previously, I had been asked to design a hangar-themed overlay for the official Hawken stream. However, I wanted to have something significantly different for my own Twitch stream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzSzXDBpcTs I ...
Official Hawken Twitch Overlay
This project was done for the fun-as-hell free-to-play mech game, Hawken, available on Steam. I took the ‘garage’ look of the game and extended it to the overlay itself. I figured ...