Cyberman (fail)

My Cyberman head is toast

 Cyberman (fail)
Jan 282009
 

I was cleaning up the workshop and I decided that the Cyberman head was just not working out the way I expected also I had lost my interest to continue with this particular project.
The idea of using the fabric softener container for the head just did not work. The glue was not holding his face down and so adding features had become too difficult.

So it was thrown out as junk. If I were to do it again and with hindsight I would have been better off if I had just built it up from card in a similar manner to my Dalek.

Curves and gauze

 Cyberman (fail)
May 022007
 

Here is a picture of the head progress so far the “Ears” are almost ready to attach. The face detail is gradually being added.
Overall I am pleased but I seem to be taking longer than I expected I really want to get back to Bender.
Next I am going to build out the ears so they can carry the “handle bars” and work on some face sculpting eye brows, chin etc.

Going, going, going… slow

 Cyberman (fail)
Apr 302007
 

Things have been going slowly recently.I was not well for a while… I was out of action for a day and it took some more days to recover properly. Prior to not feeling well…I had some problems trying to bend some brass tubes I purchased from a Hobby shop.I tried one of those spiral tube [...]

Hear ear

 Cyberman (fail)
Apr 092007
 

I finally got the glue to stick to the fabric softener bottle, so progress on the face continues . On Saturday I purchased some supplies to continue on with the ears. I now have one complete ear done. I purchased some plastic tubing for the pipes that come out and go over the Cybermans head.I [...]

Un-sticky situations

 Cyberman (fail)
Apr 042007
 

I have some problems.I checked to see how well the styrene sheet stuck to the bottle today, I have now discovered that super glue and epoxy glue are not great at sticking to the fabric softener bottle. I have never seen epoxy glue just peel off something so easily. It’s almost as though the bottle [...]

Soft, fluffy and smells nice too

 Cyberman (fail)
Apr 012007
 
Soft, fluffy and smells nice too

The cyberman head is starting to take shape.I have marked and cut out the basic shape, on the fabric softener bottle. Some thin styrene has been glued around the front.This area (in white) will be built up especially around the nose and eyebrows. On the right is a blank cardboard tray. The one on the [...]

Diversion into distraction

 Cyberman (fail)
Mar 262007
 

I was reading about some scratch building techniques. I thought I would like to try some of those methods.So I now have a second project on the go …a scratch built Cyberman head. I think that I can work on one project while waiting for glue or paint to dry on the other. One of [...]

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