A Roll in the Hayseed

Hey folks! Quick post today since I finished a commission I've been working on and I wanted to show it off!

First off, I was tasked with another Overwatch thing, and of course the other outstanding commission I have is more Overwatch. What is my life?

A longtime customer requested the Haysee Junkrat mask. Which at some point I may also be making his weapon for it, but we'll see about that.

The main ingredients for this project were:
-Dark brown faux leather vinyl
-Raffia ribbon in brown & tan
-Craft foam
-Some other random junk

I started by building the mask itself, unsing the vinyl. It velcros down the back for easy wearing and removal.

For the mouth, I cut another piece of vinyl in a smile-shape, then hot glued all of the raffia ribbon to it. Once the glue cooled I stitched it to the mask. For the ribbon above the eyes, I actually made two slits in the vinyl and threaded the ribbon through, hot gluing it into place on the back. I did that for all of the other ribbon that's attached as well, which you can see here (apologies for the blur).

For the goggle-eye parts, I started with a PVC piece for the smaller one, and a length of cardboard mailing tube for the larger one. For the orange lenses, I used tranparent colored plastic folders... specifically these ones. They didn't look very orange with just one layer, so I doubled it up for each lens. The rest of the shaping on the eye pieces are all done in craft foam.

I attached them after painting them to avoid getting paint on the vinyl. I used my trusty E-6000 to do the job. 

As you can kind of see in this photo, I added the scorched/still smoldering details to the top of the mask. I used a black sharpie for the black, and smudged it with my finger along the bottom edge to get a slight gradation to it, and blend the color into the brown of the vinyl. Then the smoldering tips I simply painted with orange acryllic.

The last step was to add the lights to the eyes, which I used a set of moon lights, coiled around the inside of the goggle lenses. the wire was then stitched to the inside of the vinyl in several places, and velcro was added to the battery pack so it could be attached and easily removed to change the batteries.

And that's that! Another finished product and another (hopefully) happy customer!

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Another WIP Wednesday

Hey everyone, short post today, but I've finished another commission and I wanted to show you the results! I've been doing a lot of Overwatch stuff lately (surprise, surprise) and I finished the armor pieces for Imp Mercy.

I'm still working on Symmetra's Photon Projector, but my customer's deadline got pushed back so I haven't made much more progress on that than the last time you've seen it.

I do, however, also have a new project lined up to make Hayseed Junkrat's mask. It'll be nice and creepy but should also turn out pretty cool.

I've only just put the pattern together so I haven't made any real progress yet, but stay tuned and you'll see it come together! 

For those of you magically inclined, I'll also have a treat next week, as I'm attending the Ket Potterfest this weekend in my magizoologist outfit. I'll be taking a bunch of my magical creatures so you can expect a bunch of photos, and an introduction to the critters I've been working on. Until then, ta!