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Title: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: Llewellian on 25 Jun 2009, 15:00: Ok, its not quite "that" art most people do at home, but my hobby is to build things for theatres and Larp-Locations.

I am working mostly with Wood, Polyurethane, Polyethylene-Foam, Styrofoam, Resin and fiberglass. Oh, and lots of paint.

The best i am in building "Ruins", "Walls", Decoration-Elements or else things...

A few pictures:

A fake cemetery

http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww30/Llewellian/cemetery.jpg

Dead pirate

http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww30/Llewellian/head.jpg

Ruins:

http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww30/Llewellian/ruin.jpg
http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww30/Llewellian/ruin2.jpg

Costume Deco elements

http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww30/Llewellian/spear.jpg

A 10 m Dragon Set. This was a shot done during a "Test-Explosion". The complete set is not cleaned up, building parts lying all around... but you get the impression... The fire was done with lycopodium seed (dust explosions)

http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww30/Llewellian/drachenland1_034.jpg

For that i was part of a team, crafting up a mediaval fantasy tavern.

http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww30/Llewellian/tavern.jpg

Having fun with a foam shark my friends and i crafted for a pirate party. Raw model, first build stage (without any "detail work" yet done).

http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww30/Llewellian/DSC00311.jpg

The motto of my friends and me is: "Some build costumes. Some act. We create worlds."
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: celticgeek on 25 Jun 2009, 15:18: That's some pretty neat stuff. I like it. Keep up the good work creating worlds.
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: Llewellian on 25 Jun 2009, 16:41: :-D Will do. Thats the best on that hobby: Seeing something "grow". I dont have that when i am on my 9-5 Job sitting in front of a computer screen.
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: ibrahimdelil on 26 Jun 2009, 00:52: the dead pirate and the spearhead are awesome, great job, congrats.
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: allison on 29 Jun 2009, 13:27: I feel like I need you to build everything in my life. That tavern is the coolest thing!
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: Llewellian on 29 Jun 2009, 14:40: :-D Thanks. But lets face it, i am only doing it as a hobby and when i look at my friends and other team-members of the building crew who do it for a living, i rate myself only as an apprentice level. I am good... but when it comes to costumes and such... well, sometimes i am awestruck myself when one of the troop does some overhours...

The main problem with this hobby is: Creativity and love to details are always stopped by the exploding costs of materials and tools you need. *sniiiiiiff*
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: BeoPuppy on 09 Jul 2009, 04:22: I hear that. You want to do better and you know you can do better .. if only you could afford ... etc. etc.

A deeply annoying feeling.
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: Llewellian on 20 Jul 2009, 14:34: :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Ah today, the best news in the world. F*** we got a fat load of sponsors now... YEEEEHAW. Means: Being creative, building more things and for the heck of it... Larry Elmore himself makes us the t-shirts...using a design of us. We hit Jackpot... and while the "ordered" things dry and the resin gets hard... i can use all leftover stuff to do my own shit... "creative" order-lists for stuff... here i come.

*shakes his fist to heaven* Someday... someday i am going to make my hobby my job.
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: Trollstormur on 02 Aug 2009, 13:14: super-grats. always nice to see nerds get successful.
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: Spub on 21 Feb 2011, 13:47: Hey, I have friends in theater and LARPs. I've been interested in the hobby for a while now. Even if you are at the starting level, your work is pretty cool. And it blows anything I can do out of the water. It is annoying not to have enough time for your art, but at least you're doing something.
Title: Re: Working with Foam, Latex, Fibreglass and Resin
Post by: KevinLevin on 26 Aug 2012, 01:20: Llewellian, your work is cool. Especially, that dead pirate and costume deco elements. Keep sharing your work here.