The Suit As She Was.

So, after collecting the suit I have to say that the first thing that struck me was the paint job. it was horrendous and dark. It was 90% deep royal blue with a sort of underlying silver (when and where it was visible) with random daubs of gold. I am assuming that it was a part 2 colour scheme but that really is anyones guess because it didn't even match the part 2 colours LOL. The Second thing was that the degredation in detail from the casting from a mould clearly in it's last days of usefulness was so high I almost fainted. I can only assume this was exasperated by imperfections in the original that the mould was cast from and or old work done to this suit by previous owners new to prop making. I will point out that none of this was from or by the gentleman I bought it from though as he had actually started to commission an artist to undertake what I am now doing before he chose to (luckily for me) let her go from his collection. So, after looking at the suit all over I started to pick things apart in my mind and try to work out a game plan.

Couldn't wait to just slip some of it on!! It's all balanced as none of the straps were functional.

Left arm, glove and helmet.

The back section of the chest was possibly (for the upper body anyway) the worst and clearly needed the most attention. Primarily around the double greebly piece on the bottom left flank. So I removed the deformed and mashed ones that were there and cleaned the area and set about cleaning and crisping the detail over the rest of the piece. On my lathe I turned up two new ones from reference pictures and information from friends and other suit owners. I turned these new greeblies from raw Polyurethane plugs that I cast in a blank RTV mould.

New greebly hot off of the lathe. This is turned Polyurethane.

Holding greebly onto prepared surface on back of robo-armour.

Greebly now bolted in position.

A better view of seated greebly.