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Well, After some second-thoughts and much deliberation, I have decided to re-do the entire skull. I stripped the foil off and I will try to smooth out the skull as much as I can. Then I will coat it with the 'chrome' spray paint. I tried it out on the Machine-mod skull, and that turned out very good ( better then the foil ).
V2 ? hmmm...
Never mind, I dropped the skull........ :( :( :(
Thanks everybody for your support. I hopped over to a medieval store in Belgium, and got me a slightly different Markus Mayer skull. This one already has "evil" eyes, but unfortunately, the teeth are all wrong. That will take me the most time, I guess.
I have two options, a set of false teeth/caps, ór airbrushing a set of chompers on it :)
Status so far;
My friend Kevin got me a nice set of demonstration dentures.
Slicing and dicing.
Cut a piece out of the skull.
Next I will fit it in, and finish the skull.
This is the left arm, this one grabs the front of the case.
And the right side, which holds the gun with the laser led.
Now I have to come up with two elbow pieces that attach to the case.
BTW, did you see this one :
I gave my new skull 3 layers of spray plaster and then two layers of chrome paint.
The eye-balls, LEDs and jaw-actuators are also mounted.
The movie is out in the USA and it wont take much longer before it will show here in the Netherlands.
My mod is not finished yet, but I made a promise, so I will have to show you something in return .
You might recognize the silicone-mold from Dragon's Lair.
With dentist-plaster and some water...
Mix is up...
This time I am using only -one- tiny bit of that mold.
A little skull !
Not so big eh ?
He does look a bit angry, doesnt he ?
Oh look, he brought some friends !
I'll come back to these shortly, but first; Slot Protectors.
These are black AND UV reactive.
They are needed here, over all the open slots on the main board.
Here a close-up of the PCI-E slot next to the Sapphire card.
And now with a protector over it.
With some patience, I managed to cover the open connectors beside that one as well.
And all the other open slots.
There. I toke it all and piled it together for a photo session.
Perhaps I was not clear enough when I posted the last set of pictures. The reason was to give you a update on the progress, nothing else. The mod is not finished yet !
I've been working on moving the skull to the center AND give it a neck. This is what I made so far, also; its only an update.
This is the core of roll of wire, made from real thin metal.
Divided into rings.
Wrapped around a aluminum tube, it looks like this.
I gave the rings two nudges to create a flat front end. The drawings on it are just something I'm working on still.
My first AutoCAD drawing! ( started a coarse, had 3 lessons so far. )
Two strips of aluminum profile, cut out an angled piece.
Knocked out the holes.
And put it together in a cross-support.
Cut the aluminum tube.
And made it to fit over the cross-support.
The rings and the skull come on top of that.
Got a bunch of stainless steel wires, tubes and chrome shower-hoses here, which Im going to play with now :)
I tilted the skull quite a bit forward, then fastened it to the neck.
I used the cables and chrome tubes to dress up the neck and also to cover the wire that comes from the
eye-LEDs.
He looks a lot more angry now, doesn't he ?
Due to personal circumstances I was unable to do much more. The last thing I did was to take the mod as it was with me to the T.i.M.e.S. lanparty here in the Netherlands.
The casemod compo jury thought it was good enough for first place and that made me feel a bit better.
I hope that 2010 will be a better year for everybody. ( :mad: crisis suxx :down: )
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