1/6 Robocop (1987, Peter Weller)

[pengbuzz]

This figure was originally a 1/6 prepainted Horizon Robocop 3 figure, which I cut apart and mounted on a 1/6 body as a moveable armature:

 

[BarleyBop]

Wow!
The whole thing really well tied together!
Fantastic painting to achieve that armour plating sheen...

 

[pengbuzz]

More images:


Under the armor, I sewed together a bodysuit from black spandex; I tried to build the model as if it were an actor under a costume so as to get the same effect as Peter Weller looked in the movie. Rather than try for a removeable helmet, I made a mold of the face, reworked it (per the pic) and then painted it. Built the back of the head onto it afterwards:

 

[pengbuzz]

Wow!
The whole thing really well tied together!
Fantastic painting to achieve that armour plating sheen...

Thanks! But to be honest, it's not paint...

...it's foil:



I used very thin foil tape (bought at one of the local dollar stores), applied it and smoothed it down with a burnisher and a toothpick for panel lines and such), then burnished it with #0000 grade steel wool (very fine). Afterwards, just some coats of Sharpie marker decanted into clearcoat and 91 percent rubbing alcohol.

 

[BarleyBop]

uild the model as if it were an actor under a costume

very cool!

...it's foil:

...no wonder it looks so convincing!

 

[BattleScale Collectica]

awesome!

 

[martin9428]

Very nicely done

 

[pengbuzz]

Thanks folks! Since Sideshow and Hot Toys' versions cost a mint and the original Horizon vinyl model was barely poseable (I broke a couple when I was a kid trying to get them posed like I saw in the movies!), I did some research before this project to determine how best to do this. I figured the best way was to simply cut the model along the seams into its' armored components as so:


After that, the bodysuit and applying the armor over it:


One of the biggest challenges was getting the face molded: I had to make a plaster mold, then use hot melt glue (high temp) for it:


Side detail on the unhelmeted head (this took a LOT of work):

 

[pengbuzz]

Side by side comparison of both heads unhelmeted (side profile):

 

[BarleyBop]

High temp hot melt glue! ...and you can paint that stuff?!
Brilliant.

 

[pengbuzz]

High temp hot melt glue! ...and you can paint that stuff?!
Brilliant.

Yeah; the high-temp version at any rate takes Krylon primer and Apple Barrel Acrylics pretty well. The lower-temp stuff seems too rubbery, so I don't use it.