I ended up doing some more work to the masquerade mask before finally saying it is finished, I always knew that I would, I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking; More images after the break.
I ended up doing some more work to the masquerade mask before finally saying it is finished, I always knew that I would, I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking; More images after the break.
I managed to get sometime to finish off the masquerade mask that I have been working on. Ok I say finished but it may never be finished as I get tempted to attach another gear while working on other projects if its left out in the open for too long. The pictures I have for these quite large and I have only put thumbs into the post so click on them to bring up a larger picture. I have some… (more…)
Here’s the update for the Masquerade Mask, I didn’t have much free time to work on this so I haven’t got as much done as I would have liked. But you can see there are gears now fixed in place and ‘screws’ holding them in place, really these screws are just the screw heads cut from the actual screw part so no need to worry about impaling your face when you put it on. I am pleased with the way… (more…)
Just a quick post to update my progress so far on the masquerade mask, I have spent about an hour on this, including some minor prep time on some gears and cogs. Most of the time was spent working out scale for the copper coloured pipes and then holding them in place while the glue dried. Next time I hope to get some of the gears onto the item.
This is a project I started recently it came about mainly from the need to get the wife a birthday present and my own drive to give her something unique and a bit quirky. I remembered that she likes masquerade masks but has never bought one. I myself quite like them and also think it fits very well into steampunk history as a common affair. Here is a picture of the plain mask base I used; When I set out… (more…)