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6 hours ago, Ptgreek said:

Great work Lee!

I discovered the last one I ever made. I still have it. I’ll take pics and post it up tomorrow 

its like the anti version of your beautiful paint up though 🙂 

oh man mine isnt great im aware of that but at the time i thought id done pretty good.

This still remains one of if not my favorite screen used lineage prop i own.  The P1 stunt bio.

i painted this back in 2009 if the time stamp on the jpeg is correct, i really need to get another so i can get a more accurate paint up.

this was simply done with rattle can silver paint, black, brown and green inks. i don't care how ropey it looks today i still love it 🙂

Bio helmet, ive no idea how i got to this design, but i have. i need to find a big format resin printing service and get some quotes in as i have only printed a mini test so far.

36 minutes ago, Bovine13 said:

I ,ook forward to watching this come together!

i look forward to you looking forward to seeing this ...........yup for sure too much sugar this morning.

3 minutes ago, Bovine13 said:

Is there anything you cant do?

lots, the list is very very long and varied haha

I am going to ignore everything i made latex which is prior to this build. ( 2004-2009) this was my silicone skinned predator i made in 2010 which i turned into Judge Predd for dragoncon 2013.
i do not have all the photo but i think apart from the Darts and Trilaser mines i made everything else from scratch.
finished photos first then a random dump of the progress.

far too kind Gene,

I genuinely haven't done much predator stuff, but i guess im also thinking compared to the uk where i was constantly sculpting one for years lol.

14 minutes ago, MeanGene said:

I always loved this piece. Why I bought one of your last run. 
It would be cool to design a suit around it. Almost like Narin's ocean pred with all the tubes and breathing aparatus.

It also bares so many similarities to the Ram bio. The lower section.
It has a lot of the same curves and feel as the rebreather.

In a Predator 2 Novel written when the movie came out, in the Predator ship scene they describe the atmosphere as smelling like Methane gas.
Can mean only one thing, Pred breathes farts 😆

Yeah i can see the Ram thing, this isnt as tapered as the film one because i wanted it to fit masks, but its way cleaner and more accurate than the 1st 2 if that makes sense.

pred fart after all that beef................

With the advent of 3d design i revisted one of my favorite quirky props, the rebreather from predator 2, which spends about 3 seconds on screen. the 1st 2 i made had issues ( mainly being my skillset ) so i always planned to revisit this.
this time i did take liberties to hopefully make sure it would fit many mask shales and sizes.

For years i was asked if i had considered a "custom" predator , i had always resisted. well after 12 different predator head sculpts. and a certain event being planned i decided timing is everything so why not.  this will chronicle the build, and i will post failures and successes along the way.
to start off here is the head, i have been through 4 changes i believe until this point, and i still have a lot of refining to do assuming i do not change my mind again.  the plan was to be faithful to the original design but different. and i think that directive messed with my own head.

following the head i started tinkering in 3d design and 3d kit bashed some things together along with items made from scratch, to come up with dual shoulder cannons i may rock.

i have more to add to this build but i am tired and need to chase down photos.

I made a conscious choice after making my silicone P1 suit in 2010 to avoid working with stinky latex and predators if i could moving forward, since then i changed location globally and started working for myself so this is only the 2nd predator head i had sculpted in that time.
i do not have many photos of the sculpt progress, but here is the latest version and i have a cool tweaked version i am finishing up this week, which i will post photos when i have it done.

Sorry there is not much of work in progress on this mask, I'm genuinely not sure why i didn't take many photos. this was based off my 2010 silicone p1 mask, a reworked clay pour..
it seemed fitting being as the original elder was a modified P1 mask.

ive included a couple of different paint ups and variations i have done on this mask.

Well well well if it isnt US. i have been thinking of how to reply to this for a few days. and i am still none the wiser so.....

My name is Lee and a long time ago in a country far far away ( UK ) i joined a motley ezboard forum about predator costuming, on that site i met what would turn out to be lifelong friends, with a bond surpassing normal online friendship.
closing in on 20 years later friends are now brothers, and although this forum disappeared for a while, the lair was never just a place , it was a people. ( sorry thor )

we bounced off each other and pushed each other weekly, and i am very much looking forward to seeing if we can encourage todays fans into making things they did not think were possible.

long live the lair.