THE HUMAN EYE FOR TERMINATOR

In my early 20's, I used to hand paint human eyes to exercise my make-up FX skills. Well, instead of spending upwards of $80.00 on glass eyes for my Terminator head, I sat down last night and painted this one. Not perfect, but it's gettin there. These are the photos of the makeshift pop can holder I made so I could spray it with the multiple layers of clear acrylic. Essentially, you hold the can upside down and spray the eye. This keeps the layers of acrylic thicker at the iris and pupil and gives it that wet, thick look adding depth. A few more coats and I think I'll be happy with it. I'll probably do one more and try to photo match Arnold's eye more closely. Yeah, I know ping pong balls are the wrong size, but you really can't tell once it's in the head itself. The old method I used to do would be to paint a layer and put a thick layer of acrylic on. Then, paint another layer and put another thick layer of acrylic on...repeating the process until the iris looked the way I wanted it to. Didn't do it on this one, but I probably will on the next one.

T-800 WORK

Had a brief few minutes last night to do some trim work on my Schwarzenegger Casting. Drilled out the left eye and got the right Cyborg eye trimmed up and ready to install. I also worked a bit on the jaw piston and began sanding the seam lines and cleaning up the casting flash. I hope to start some detail bondo work this weekend so I can start planning on paint. Stay tuned...I'll be back.

ARNOLD T-800 STAGE FIVE

Scored my T2 Head!!! Now to plan on painting and adding light and a glass eye.

INDIANA JONES IDOL ADDED TO COLLECTION

Okay, I've wanted one of these since the mid-90's!

This one is solid gleaming metal and made by a local prop builder and friend!
It takes him a few months to make them and should be available sometime after the New Year (Jan or Feb 2013)

Woo hoo!!!!!!!

TERMINATOR BUST

Adding this new piece to my collection!

To paint, or not to paint? That is the question!

STAR WARS READS DAY 2012

Saturday, Oct 6th, 2012, Citrus Heights Barnes & Noble Book Store.

ME AND MY WORK

This has been a really cool couple of years! Wonder where this will all take me next!

In this shot, everything is built, assembled and painted by me, with the exception of Vader, the classic Stormtrooper and the Shock Trooper.