Hello everybody!
Yesterday it was world book day, and at my school we all got read the book 'war of the worlds'. It was interesting, and clever and I recommend it for a quick read. Now, my school is hosting a competition where you have to draw one of the martians according to the descriptions. As I love to be different, I asked if we could make models, and the answer was yes, so here is a quick post to show how I made my plasticine martian.
Here is the armature, I made this quickly out of alluminium wire.
Then I put Epoxy putty on it, to secure it. That's great stuff!!
Now I made the big eye. I didn't follow the discriptions for this, there were meant to be two, but I like to be imaganative!! I started off with this half ping pong ball type thing from an old magic set.
I painted it and covered it in glue, to give it a shiny eye-y feel.
Now, I covered it in dark brown plasticine. It's cheap to buy and easy to use!!
Plasticine covering the tenticles...
...And on the head. I used alot of plasticine to meke the head.
Next I cut out a circle where the eye was to be, pushed in the eyeball, and made plasticine eyelids.
I then stuck the eyelids on, and smoothed them in.
Now all that was left is a mouth, so I added it on, and here's my finished model!!
Fish
Now, I covered it in dark brown plasticine. It's cheap to buy and easy to use!!
Plasticine covering the tenticles...
...And on the head. I used alot of plasticine to meke the head.
Next I cut out a circle where the eye was to be, pushed in the eyeball, and made plasticine eyelids.
I then stuck the eyelids on, and smoothed them in.
Now all that was left is a mouth, so I added it on, and here's my finished model!!
Here is the main parts of the armature ready.
I gluegunned all the parts together, and added on the ribs, and here is the finished armature:
Unfortanutly when I added the clay ontop, it looked terrible, so this is all your getting for now, but some time in the future I might go back to the project.
Here is the armature and Epoxy putty feet with working tie-downs in the bottom.
Next comes the spare clay I don't want, this saves the new nice clay.
Now I add the boots, covering the feet too.
Now add final touches, and your done!!!
The finished model!!
Each picture is one second of film.
I glued the dome into the rubber ring, and with a hot glue gun I glued the mini bolts into place.
Now it looked like this.
See you later and thanks for popping by!!
Replacement mouths for my character 'stinky' from 'the good, the bad, and the SMELLY!' which will be used in my tutorial - I will spend alot of time on tuts now, some you will have to pay for, some not. You will still have to wait a while before any come out!
They are better then simple wire armatures in many ways; for one, certain points come apart, so it is easier to (for example) animate the hands when they are in a tricky place, because you can just take them off, move them, then put them back.
Here is a plan so you can make one yourself:
The gluegun I told you about, that helped me hugely in making it
The brass tubing and alliminum wire.
In the book I am writing, I tell you how to make this one. The book is about armatures. Here's a pic from it:
This one I entered in to a compitition, but didn't win!
