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IG build

chapter 2!

monsters from the IG!

...whistle yer own music here  

LEGS !..:lol:. yes, someone yelling that wakes me up as well!...unfortunately droid legs  

Then onto thighs...and lower legs ..


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this is the top of the calf straight under the knee block , its the same pipe slit and layered to bring the diameter up then filled but kept with air spaces as from here up Im trying to shave off every bit of weight going.


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looking up the thigh 'bone tube'

then the calf bone


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...held against the God image , guesstimation came in to get a proportionately decent leg with a foot as IG originally had a flat board and no feet .


The hip area/thighshroud was a seperate piece from the thigh till after the thighs were finished and dusted with gunmetal paint where the shroud would cover..



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the thigh bone tube is the same as the lower leg but with spacers and a piece of light weight plastic pipe round it allowing an amount of the bone to poke up into the hip unit so it would be a strong joint.

Looking up the complete thigh ...


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Then the complete ,test fitted thigh seen with finished hip unit pushed on ...


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quick peek down in the thigh..


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and a close up of the thigh greeblies ,


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made from car filler cast into a sweet top I found ...all together now ....

......'IN THE STREET!' 

(**** trainee tramp!)     :D


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And like the Duracell bunny ...this build went on ...and on...and on

Ahh boy!... :)

Here is a breakdown of the complete upper leg..


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on the left is something that will roll into this thread in a bit , the knee block ...So eventually the hip bone gets bonded to the... thigh bone ...the thigh bone's connected to the knee bone ...STOP singing !  ..get carried away sometimes.. 

While the hip and thigh will be one piece finally ,the hip joint (the F pin with the fake gaiter from earlier ,and the knee block both push into place and remain removable...there is a reason...trust me. 


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thighs in first primer/deglitching stage, the rod things up the sides are aluminium tube from a battlestar class B&Q...(the big one!)the yellow ends (before primer )are some very hard foamex ..apparently the stuff shrinks slightly and goes hard with UV light and temerature changes , this was an old shop sign .I think the detail in the middle of each rod was till roll centres (plastic) with packing.


this next one shows how the curved top (to help with the illusion of movement capability)of the hip armour was done ,layers of foamex and filler.


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Now the knees!


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basically a piece of pipe the height of the knee unit with a longer piece of the same pipe slit along its length and forced up through it creating a pin that will fit in to the thigh or calf ...I actually ended up cutting out a strip and making it a dead fit as this reduced wobble when fully assembled .The brown is some drainage pipe I found ,foamex discs act as spacers .

Heres the start of the fake gaiter for the knee joint.. and for once it does kinda look like IG has these ,I needed them more obvious though..


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this is a 'pushmould'in car filler of the black gaiter part in shot being held contracted ..

..2 am driving round a roundabout ...yup!...you guessed it ... found it in the street! 

on the left ,cast parts , on the right the mould , hair gel as release , bit fiddly but it meant I didnt have to wory about getting parts greasy .All parts were pulled when the filler was 'green '(set but not cured so it was rubbery )


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...and a test fit on the block , here you can see just how manky it was before clean up and deglitching


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...and the finished knee was in a shot earlier...


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...YEEEHAH!...now on to IG's important little places ...:p


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the gut flange ,when you look at what it is ,two halves of a unit that meet at that point , like a gear box ,it seems logical to assume it would be on the backside as well , KOTOBUKIYA agreed so I did the same .Figuring out the variations in height from the surface for every piece of detail was a pain... but it seemed to add up in the end and I constructed front and back raised detail for the crotch out of foamex and styrene.


Under the big hip canisters is a stud detail that fastens them on ,I used aerosol nozzles cut down ,wouldnt normally as they dont like being painted but where they were there would be no wear and tear..


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Here you can also see the holes with tubes in place for the hip joint , the 2 prongs of the F pin go into these (I got 2 near telescoping diameters of pipe from a mate )


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during final assembly after some basic painting , these canisters are bonded on to the stud pin thing , notice the dowels just poking out of the vertical face , these will be pushed through and glued last thing to lock the canisters on .


The detail in blue (2mm styrene sheet )may have a hole in the middle on actual IG ...bit unclear and easier for me not to.


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Fake clasp detail on straps made from foamex and sanded, BTW the big white tube is plastic and light weight and is the central roll in some kind of posh solar control film for windows , expensive stuff , chat up your local vinyl graphics people...also used as the outer thigh .


Now we're getting somewhere   ...


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same thing , couple o different lighting set ups , makes it easier to see .The white areas are where the fake hip gaiters will cover the F pins.


Upper body assembly test ...:D


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,The chest has been worked up , the ladder looking bit up the middle of it front and back has been done here , also , and he does have these ,...IG's armpits   ...these have a round detail deep in them which is very speaker like ...Hmmmm

Yup I stuck an MP3 speaker in , wanted him booming the Imp march and the asteroid field !hehe  ..another thing that hasnt come off yet due to my lack of electrical knowledge ...getting it sorted though.

Also there is the shoulder piece that goes out to meet up with the shoulder block ,this was a plastic lampshade , I really had to ration when this was used as it was perfect sized but there wasnt much of it and it was a toss up between that and thigh shrouds , eventually I got different thigh shroud stuff and freed up the shades. :)


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