Shelob, Attercob, aka Spider

[Malatory]

OK time for some more pics ... and since I am still working today and should be off *GGRRRR* I have been doing some on this project. As I wanted to have at least some plastic poored by today .. Oh well...

after letting the Putty dry for a little bit I start to remove it and see some areas that I applied it a little thin. So I will have to fix that before the support shell is made.

But 1st, lets take a look at the size differance between Krispy Brother (or sister) Next to the butt and one with it on top of it..

Trying to get a snack gets me laught at and told get your own...Must be trying to be come a model.

after a few taking crackers from a baby and playing with plaster ... I am at this point.

I wish I had more of the plaster bandage strips that I used to make the main part .. it was a lot quicker But I did use some burlap cloth I had to help. I will finish that up later tonight and then should be able to mix the 1st batch of plastic tomorrow......or next weekend.

I did find out that Smooth-on is giving a demo on the plastic and some of the casting stuff in 2 weeks. I might go it, might help with some other ideas ....

[Malatory]

ok .. one last update and I am going to bed ...

before I finished up from the last part, I did get an offer for help..

Dad can I scoop some of this out of this thing.

and poor it in here for you?
NO, and what did you do with the Cheeze its?

later on ... after bed time...
Turn it up side done and pull out the original and this is what you get.

Pull out the mold and break the shell abit, I really should have dont the 2-piece shell like I was planning from the start ...

Mold on the floor. this shows why I need the shell.. even if it last for ever..

On my Look we almost have twins ...

and the under side of things ...

missing one box of cheeze it's that make little girls go "MMMmmmm"

Todo: clean the edges of the mold and expand it with at least a 1" lip. Will be needed to get the walls thick.

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did a little bit of work last night on the head..

as seen also in tribaloverkill's (At gruntville.com) work log (but more the the bench)

It is a burch wood with a chery Stain, and 3 coats of polyacrylic water based topcoat. You can have all 3 coats done in 3 hours and waiting 24 hours before you can start using it.

Once I get time to finish the 2nd bench, I will be adding some other hard ware to it, but that is once I get around to it.

I just need to make the grove for the track and put it together in reality but I need to finish up the spider 1st..

but that is for another day ...

I also added the extra molding for the other body part so it will be easy to do the side walls. I should be able to poor more plastic tonight, after work.

[Malatory]

Informational update.

1st Round of plastic for the back part of the body is done and hanging up as I get ready to paint it (once its warm enough). Body took about 32oz of plastic.

The template head is almost ready to build the mold. Need to work on some of the face for better detail and some of the muscle structure. Then I will want to add a clear coat on it so the mold doesn't stick to the plaster. At that point I should be able to build the mold and have it poored with in a couple of days.

that was the good news ... bad new is I have had issues with one of the computers in the house and been looking into it and its more than just a harddrive failure. Looking liek the motherboard has crapped out so I will be re-building the system during my spare time this weekend with the parts that were set aside for this project. As I need a single spot to pick up all of my e-mail and a machine I can tests some of my programs on.

Some of the time line that I laid out for me ...
10/16: Body and head done in plastic + painted.
10/23: Legs added, LED's for Eyes Done, and fur look added to body.
10/30: ready for Computer - Used for a couple of days to scare the kids (10/31)

[Malatory]

Ok here are the pics I told you I would post ...

The plastic version of the body just hanging around on the wall..

The face .. looks like the spider is sick and has snot running down its nose.

back part of the head/main body part.. Yellow stuff is glue.

some plaster over the glue to hide some of the glue and to make the mouth part blend in with the rest.

Yet another view .... Still has the glue all over, at least it is dry.

Head and body put together...

and with one leg .. others are down stars and my little one is waking up ..

Now its time to make the mold of the head ...

I really though I had more of the PoYo Putty.. I guess I need to pick some up tomorrow. At least this stuff is forgiving and will stick to itself, so I can pick up where I left off tomorrow ...

[Malatory]

Originally Posted by BalefireX

Any ideas on how you're going to do the eyes?

Yes...

This weekend was spend re-building my home network, replacing hardware in my mail server, playing Winter Assualt (Dawn of War add on 12 new missions and a new Weaker race to play :roll: ) and trying to get one of the versions of Linux to reconize my Gigabit nic out of the box (Ubuntu 5.10 couldnt even configure the Linksys NE100 - somethings is messed up with the tuplip driver or my nic was just hating Ubuntu). Plus I poored the plastic for the head and started painting it. In turn it all leads to the Eyes ... As I was letting the 1st coat of paint dry, I started using some of the extra styrofoam to make 1 eye and soaked it in PolyAcrylic to fill in the holes and make it so the mold stuff one stick to it. I will make t molds of this and poor Resin Dyed Red into the molds and also add 1-2 clear Red LEDs to them so they Glow Red. I might be able to get this poored tonight.. if not I will be at least starting on adding the fur to the spider body.

Pics will come later as I was again to lazy to move them off last night

EDIT: I might add a UV LED to the Eyes for the HDD light.

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OK .. did some looking at the eye I started off with and didn't like it so I burnt some more sculptity (sp) in the name of the mod ... OK so I really need to check the toaster oven 1st.

Eye molds and the template.

body parts painted ... ok so they are not the best of paint jobs, but that is because we need an undercoat color and want it to look random

Eyes poored in resin.. the red dye really doesn't look transparent.. hhmmm
Hope I didn't waste those 4 LED's

top LED is a UV led for HD activity and the bottom is Red for power.

(Better late than never)

[[DGN]Nexus]

ok... once you get this spider built what are you doing with it?

[Malatory]

Originally Posted by [DGN]Nexus

ok... once you get this spider built what are you doing with it?

I hope you got the message before the move was made.

If not ... I will have it in my work shop as computer in there.. Other Version that will be made after this one will be getting to the point of moving around on its own and with the ablity to walk around the block.

[DickNervous]

Spider-Comp, Spider-Comp, does whatever a spider can.......