-UPDATE-
23 August 2012
I’ve being having some issues here and there, specially with the glider frame… but now I have everything (finally) handy to finish it. First off, the beginning of the glider progress. I had to cut .060” Black HIPS plastic with a box cutter… one by one in ¾” strips (18 of them), these will go for the wings’ black line “ribbing” as I call it… as part of the frame,
Pack main body done. Attached caster wheel frames to the board.
One wing’s main frame DONE, and as you could see; pack straps DONE and attached… but still needed to know actual angles to set the holes and screws, and at the same time, it will help me figure out the actual pattern for the wings’ fabric, using the same pattern to build the frame for the second wing. Besides, originally I wanted to make them smaller than the real one, but I ended up going forward to FULL SCALE, which will impress even more in public… not to mention to be more according to the movie.
Here’s a closeup of the frame and straps already painted and assembled,
This is what happens when you're working with a drill, trying to make a hole on a piece of copper pipe; and the drill bit breaks off, sending the drill and the "left over" drill piece directly to my thumb.
(Note to self: if you have and see a glove next to you….
USE IT!!!)
This is something that got me the whole week… the belt buckle came out not as good as I wanted, not to mention some imperfections and scratches that happened quickly after my first attempt, that I’ve decided to use something more “perfectly curvy”, and so the goggle frame, which I really messed it up trying to fix it the first time, and having the right side looking really “odd”.
How ironic; that I will be using the very same I used as a vacuum-forming tool for the belt buckle, to sand down the “3M” brand and the texture grain from the surface of the hand sander, that got molded on the casting… even though I’ve sanded down the brand on the hand sander… really odd.
Moving on and meanwhile… here’s the main costume mostly done. I have to redo the belt buckle and (airbrush) the hoodie, trim the goggles and paint, and airbrush the wings fabric and complete the frame for them.
More info to come soon… and this time about the GLIDER itself. In the meantime... here's the shot of the completed costume undersuit, trunks, belt (sans buckle), gauntlets, gloves and boots: