Shooting Colour (upper body armour & arms) Continued.

The Chest and back were shot with colour in exactly the same way as the arms. Using screen grabs and other reference material looking to find the correct colour patternation to make her as screen accurate as possible. I added the screen accurate Hex bolts and fashioned new hoop hinges as well.


Chest showing added hex bolts and hoop hinges.



Chest from front.

 The back, already mounted with all it's new greeblies was finished, once more from as much reference material as I could lay my hands on. Something I will point out, and I am sure something that anyone who has done this type of work before will completely understand and have encountered. As far as reference material goes, it almost always seems to be one area that is always favoured. One pose or shot, that crops up everywhere. so there will be an abundance of material on say the robochest for example, yet if you really need to get a good look at the bottom right quater of the left arm, oh no chance!!! so you do need to be Sherlock Holmes at some point in these types of builds and really, really dig deep for your information. The best way of going about this are others who share the "obsession" in the same field. There are great places like The RPF for example, which is just a Willy Wonka's chocolate factory of joys for the prop builder. it has an absolute wealth of information and quite frankly, if it hasn't been built and put on the RPF, then in hasn't actually been built lol. In this instance I became a member of The Robocop Archive. A brilliant forum and site with loads of great people who are happy to help. Never be scared to ask for help or information. there is always someone out there that might have that one picture or piece of knowledge that might help you finish a project OR help you make something more accurate than you thought.


Back finished (shown with arms)



Back finished (shown with arms)

 So, with all these bits now finished to my liking (I think as many will agree you never really feel finished. there is always a want or wish to correct or make better, to have the time to obsess over every little detail, but we have to draw the line or the project will never end) it is clearly time to move onto the legs. So I think a very, very deep breath is required as this, out of all the jobs so far has been the longest and the most pain in the ass. For one, they are very large and 2, they also needed the most work. so please stay tuned as next we move onto the legs.