Sculpted, Painted & Attached Wolf Skull:The Feral Predator From The Movie "PREY" Build WIP

I think he looks amazing! well done.

BAMComix wrote:I think he looks amazing! well done.

Thanks BAMC! Means a lot to me! Now I've just got all his gear to do!

I think you managed to convey all his colorful gnarliness. Wouldn't want to meet this guy in the woods. But he's totally welcome here. I hope the paint doesn't rub off. I was painting something relatively recently, and although I used primer, a little spot got scratched and the top layer peels.

Looking good, Alex. It’ll be interesting to see how you pull off the weapons.

GubernatorFan wrote:I think you managed to convey all his colorful gnarliness. Wouldn't want to meet this guy in the woods. But he's totally welcome here. I hope the paint doesn't rub off. I was painting something relatively recently, and although I used primer, a little spot got scratched and the top layer peels.

Cheers! Sorry to hear about your flaking problem, that's always going to be a possible issue with any paint on any surface except maybe Cerakote baked onto metal! I use clear coats as added protection against scrapes and rub areas as much as I use it for it's looks; also why I like to use plastic of the same colour as the paint I plant to put over it whenever possible.

Stryker2012 wrote:Looking good, Alex. It’ll be interesting to see how you pull off the weapons.

Thanks! Should be fun, making it up as I go along as usual!

This guy is looking amazing. Scrolling through this is a bit of a rollercoaster as you figure out what part ultimately works best and I enjoy every single image of the process.

Theboo-bomb wrote:This guy is looking amazing. Scrolling through this is a bit of a rollercoaster as you figure out what part ultimately works best and I enjoy every single image of the process.

Cheers TBB! Yeah as more reference pics and products have been released recently my understanding of his actual 'look' or costume and CGI additions changes, the fact that he's invisible for half the film doesn't help!

I tend to be a little shy with clear coat, because even the matte one seems too shiny to me. But it would have helped, I'm sure.

GubernatorFan wrote:I tend to be a little shy with clear coat, because even the matte one seems too shiny to me. But it would have helped, I'm sure.

Get the Vallejo Premium Airbrush Color Matt Varnish that's what I used and it turned that super glossy coat to a deadpan matte with just one stroke of a brush!

shovelchop81 wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:I tend to be a little shy with clear coat, because even the matte one seems too shiny to me. But it would have helped, I'm sure.

Get the Vallejo Premium Airbrush Color Matt Varnish that's what I used and it turned that super glossy coat to a deadpan matte with just one stroke of a brush!

Do you think it would work even without an airbrush?

GubernatorFan wrote:

shovelchop81 wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:I tend to be a little shy with clear coat, because even the matte one seems too shiny to me. But it would have helped, I'm sure.

Get the Vallejo Premium Airbrush Color Matt Varnish that's what I used and it turned that super glossy coat to a deadpan matte with just one stroke of a brush!

Do you think it would work even without an airbrush?

I just used a normal manual brush to apply it this time as you have seen it in the previous pics, I generally only use the airbrush when necessary as it's a pain to set up and clean even with the very efficient system I have. Airbrush paints can all be used by normal manual brushes, the silver I use is from the Airbrush line from Vallejo, the paints just have finer pigments and or metal flakes making them brighter but more importantly they don't clog up the air nozzle on the airbrush.

Ok, thanks for the advice. I have some Vallejo airbrush acrylics (by accident), and they work, but are so much more liquid than I expect, so I have to remember to add little to no water.

GubernatorFan wrote:Ok, thanks for the advice. I have some Vallejo airbrush acrylics (by accident), and they work, but are so much more liquid than I expect, so I have to remember to add little to no water.

Yeah they tend to be thinner so you don't clog up your airbrush or add too much water which would make them less vibrant and cause 'runs' but you tend to get a lot more coverage using an airbrush in fine coats so the price difference and the lack of the ability to 'dilute/stretch out' the paint as much is nullified and it is a higher quality product.

Started on the skirt armour and feel like I'm back in primary school geometry class...or at the other end of the spectrum, doing engineering plans for a product design during my degree years! At least there are no equations involved! I'm also managing his 'hair' by first thinning it out a bit then I'll have to consider undoing a lot of work by cutting it to length...

















THIS LOOKS LIKE PROMO ART NOT A FILM STILL SO NOT SURE HOW ACCURATE IT IS.

this is breathtaking!!! I love how the body and head came out, the color pattern, the gloss, it looks amazing! And that headsculpt is phenomenal, thank you 3000 for sharing the step by step progress, the ressearch and dev... it's brilliant

It's intricate and busy work, but it looks very promising already.

blackpool wrote:this is breathtaking!!! I love how the body and head came out, the color pattern, the gloss, it looks amazing! And that headsculpt is phenomenal, thank you 3000 for sharing the step by step progress, the ressearch and dev... it's brilliant

Thank you so much blackpool! I woke up really depressed (no reason, it was even payday! Dumb illness) but saw this and it really cheered me up!!

GubernatorFan wrote:It's intricate and busy work, but it looks very promising already.

Cheers GTF! Made all four strips of armour the same length now (the short version was just my first attempt) but one strip has gone missing since I was digging through all the Dwarven materials in the suitcase in front of me to find the real thin leather to make the skirt out of which of course was at the bottom. Unfortunately this means the missing strip must have got stuck to one of the 100 or so baggies I had to pull out and have now put back without realising what happened, which means a major search will have to be done to try and find the strip of armour later but I need food and a sleep first!

Nice detail on the skirt/kilt. What is that second material you used after the initial pattern?

Stryker2012 wrote:Nice detail on the skirt/kilt. What is that second material you used after the initial pattern?

Cheers! Silver card just turned it over so you can't see the pencil markings or do you mean the double sided tape?

Silver card, not the tape.

I love how your WIPs look like weird car crashes, only to be turning into swarms of beautiful little butterflies.

The cable hair turned out great, and those segmented segments look very segmentional.

Or glorious awe-inspiring moths, Ovy.

Awesome work, it’s great seeing the tips, tricks and creative adjustments along the way. Admire your persistence and dedication to keeping your progress going, I always struggle with getting distracted by other projects....

Stryker2012 wrote:Silver card, not the tape.

It's just some card I ordered in bulk on eBay years ago, was going to use it as 'metal/plastisteel' flooring on my black shelves for my figures which would also help hide the dust! Still haven't got around to it!

Ovy wrote:I love how your WIPs look like weird car crashes, only to be turning into swarms of beautiful little butterflies.

The cable hair turned out great, and those segmented segments look very segmentional.

Thank you very much Ovy! Someone beat you to that description (sort of) about 15 years ago! I ended up using it as my my signature over on OSW

GubernatorFan wrote:Or glorious awe-inspiring moths, Ovy.

LOL, very true, perhaps Mothman would be even more on the nose

Tanzenwolfe wrote:Awesome work, it’s great seeing the tips, tricks and creative adjustments along the way.  Admire your persistence and dedication to keeping your progress going, I always struggle with getting distracted by other projects....

Thank you so much TZF! I've got boxes of partial builds so you're not alone in getting distracted!


Couldn't find that stupid armoured assembly that got stuck to something, emptied the whole suitcase out and inspected all the bags but not luck. Made a bigger better new one for his rear anyway! Going to need to add a few strips to the others as well as they need to go higher. Been trawling eBay for something that matches the the unusual belt/chain he has and found something pretty close and affordable: 3mm flat snake chain; so just ordered some.

Nice find in that chain. I hope it is easy enough to work with and put together with the rest of the outfit.

He's looking pretty good so far, that chain looks like it will work well with it too.

That chain is a nice find. Should work pretty well.

GubernatorFan wrote:Nice find in that chain. I hope it is easy enough to work with and put together with the rest of the outfit.

Theboo-bomb wrote:He's looking pretty good so far, that chain looks like it will work well with it too.

Stryker2012 wrote:That chain is a nice find. Should work pretty well.

I hope so! I'm not in the mood to cut hundreds of tiny complex identical pieces of card right now! Although I'd probably make a tool like a sharp cooky cutter.

The armor is looking excellent!

ukshaun wrote:The armor is looking excellent!

Thanks! A ways to go yet though as it'll need black base, silvers and washes then clear but thought I'd paint everything together once it's all made as they are all similar metal finishes required.

Been thinning out the hair again, getting rid of the less malleable thicker cable and swapping it for thinner wire that's posable and lighter in places where it's needed more. Started trimming but that was before!

Also working on the gauntlets and all their features/details trying to get it right without sculpting as I'm bored of that  so it's kind of like making jigsaw pieces from scratch, to then using them to make the jigsaw but without knowing exactly what the jigsaw is going look like...even though i have reference pics but they can be a bit unreliable due to CGI post production....























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I'VE BEEN TRYING TO ADD MORE CLOSE UP PICS AT DIFFERENT ANGLES BUT ALL MY EDITING PROGRAMS SUCK!!
SQUINT REALLY HARD AND USE YOUR IMAGINATION TO GUESS WHAT I'M DOING WITH THESE PARTS!







I HAVE ZERO PATIENCE FOR COMPUTER EDITING/ENHANCING BOLLOCKS AND IT NEVER SEEMS TO WORK FOR ME! THAT INCLUDED 2 DEGREES (PRODUCT DESIGN AND MOTORCYCLE ENGINEERING, OH STARTED A 3RD TOO, AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN THAT WAS ALL COMPUTER BASED ) AND 27 YEARS TRYING TO GET TO GRIPS WITH IT! FUNNY AS MY FOLKS THINK I'M A COMPUTER WHIZ!