Battlestar Galactica Ovion!

[piecemaker]

I finally got around to finishing the body and suit off for this guy after having all the other parts completed and sitting around for months.

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[pmwasson]

Wow! Looks like you bought it at the store! Nice job.

[Confessional]

Ohhh that's good fun! Flocked suit right?

[thunderbolt]

neat!!! yeah, give us the details on how this is built.

[Hedji]

Wowee! Home Run!

[Ninersphan1]

wow wow wow wow wow that is so cool!!!

[C.H.O.A.M.]

great job! that would have been a must have back in the day.

and speaking of boxes...

[MIB41]

Excellent job! Love it!!

[PNGwynne]

Ye gods, that is cool!

[k2]

Toooo sweet! One of the best customs in recent memory!

[mikeoz]

Beautiful! It looks completely factory made.

[piecemaker]

Thanks everyone and sorry for the short post with no details. I was excited to have it finished finally and i had to head out the door at 4:30 so i didn't have a lot of time then.
I can give some more details on the process now.

I sculpted the head, hands,feet and tail.All these parts were molded and then cast in resin.

The antenae for the head were made seperately, molded and cast, then holes drilled in head and those were glued in.
The "teeth" were made using cut off pieces of a sewing pin and glued in to holes drilled in the mouth.

I used a(restrung) Mego-style Type 2 body and the hands and feet were made to work with those type joints.

Holes were drilled in the upper torso for the extra arms and those were strung together with 2mm elastic cord.

The tail has an interior pin and that was strung to the lower torso with elastic cord.

The head is a swivel ball joint type and it was strung from the interior pin in the neck to the "crossbar" piece in the lower torso.

The "main" arms and legs were then strung together like a Type 1 body using elastic cord.

I used a brown regular bodysuit, cut the bottom feet off to go over the Ovion feet and cut slits in the suit for the extra arms and also the tail.
I stole the sleeves off a trashed ape tunic, put those on the extra arms and then sewed them to the suit.

Thin pieces of leather were then cut for the Ovion "skin" and glued to the suit using fabric glue.Then the fabric glue was used on the leather pieces to add more detail.

All those pieces and the head, hands, feet and tail were then all painted.
Finally the flock was added in between all the "skin" pieces.

"And now"..... you know...... "the rest of the story".

[enyawd72]

That is just amazing work.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Fantastic! Not only aesthetics but engineering, too.

[Mego Magyar]

That came out real nice.