Project M2 (Matriarch Rebuild)

[Acey]

From Matriarch to M2, here's the rebuild in progress. Been working on it since last Thursday after getting the cheap case. This time I expect the cost to beat Pprz even with the casing counted. Grabbed one of the worse brand in casing, iCute. Its a 2nd hand and paid only RM25 (approx US$7). Lemme try to reorganize the way my worklog goes.

Since I now have one whole apartment to myself, that means more space = more panels to be worked at once. So work's gone pretty effin fast as I know more or less what to build and how to start molding.

Theme

I don't wanna stray too far from the original Matriarch itself, so this time I'm going for a half human half dragon grotesque theme that wraps around the case except for the top panel. Here are some sketches.

Color combi will be black base, blue shades with green highlights.


Materials

Cheap case and a lot of paper

Side Panels

I'm trying to get the case to look more of a whole instead of each panels having their own different designs as in Pprz. So in this WL both panels will look the same.

To get an idea how it should be aligned with the face at the front

Now you get a better idea of the whole thing on sides and front.

Haggling if I should add ribs to the curves. Keeping it low profile for now.


Front Panel

This is a headache as everything else revolves around it. If the face doesn't get completed/dried, no work goes on until it is. Still halfway working on it as its still damp, probably detailing by tomorrow.

Nostrils... LOL, so it can do something like below in its free time

Keeping a bezel on the 2nd column to support the top of the head.

For ROM stealthing, xtremely thin

Still need to work a lot on the cracks in between and the size. Then detailing as well. The cheek looks kinda small and the eyes a lot bigger than it should be.


Base

Yessur, an extension to the base. Nothing will be in it, just a solid block of paper (as I don't have any tools with me, again). Kinda hard to wait on it, the thickness made the sun looks useless as well.

Dumped stuffs

Some random thing at first for the top panel. Scraped.

Letters which IDK where to place. Scraped.


Top panel hasn't been touched yet as I leave the case upside down to finish the base first. That's all for this week. Be back next week. Oh, about to start a new job, finally after 1.5 years of "retirement" lol.

[madd0ct0r]

good luck with the jo, and good luck with the matriarch. hope she likes the facelift.

[The boy 4rm oz]

WOW, what a start, you have made some real nice progress already, keep it up mate.

[knowledgegranted]

that is one of the coolest methods I've seen +rep for the design and method!

[XcOM]

back with the old paper again, acey, i hope this turns out just as good as the last one

[Acey]

good luck with the jo, and good luck with the matriarch. hope she likes the facelift.

Thx, she better like it else I'll put a couple of acne on her face

WOW, what a start, you have made some real nice progress already, keep it up mate.

Thx, just working as fast as I can as the idea comes along.

that is one of the coolest methods I've seen +rep for the design and method!

Thx mate.

back with the old paper again, acey, i hope this turns out just as good as the last one

Ye mate. Hopefully turns out better than the last one

Updates below

[Acey]

Didn't really work much on it this week. Weather's crazy. Real crazy, I think someone just released Calypso again.

Side Panels

Keeping it simple. Consider both of them done so far. Patching up holes and then adding some waves to the thing in between the things. IDK what they're supposed to be called LOL.

Hate it when this happens. Cracks between joints.Took about 30 mins to fill up all of them and numb the hell out of me legs.

Everything glued and re-glued so they're good to go for the paint job once I align the 'things' with the front panels.


Front Panel

Moved the face to the panel when its 80% done and nearly collapsed. Cracks between the nose-eye gap. Seems like the bezel didn't hold too well or the wet pulp in between the surface and mold is the culprit.

This is the initial build according to the sketch (some parts off)... WTH are you doing between me legs????

Looked too much like G-strings hanging off the face so took it off and now here's something more like what I want.

Pop eyeballs in..

Before and after shots of the forehead patching.

Top Panel

Just a sketch at the moment. Cant make up my mind if I wanna have 3 rows or just 1

Scrapped

First top panel design/sketch... Dumped

Corner for panels.. Dumped

Base

Doubled the thickness of the base. Taking extremely long to dry.. about 70% dried now so probably can flip it back by tomorrow

DEATHHH BY PULPPP

Alrite, gotta go now, very rushed. Be back next week. Oh ya, say hi to David Beckham. He's somewhere in the pix. Good luck finding him.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Looking seriously good my friend.

[madd0ct0r]

Is that base solid paper pulp?
surely some holes would help it dry faster?

[p0Pe]

another one!?! yeah you got some wicked skills with that paper boy. truly unique