ABC WARRIOR BUST TUTORIAL

Once all your parts are trimmed and cleaned, Start prepping the eye sockets by dremeling a groove for the eyes to seat-in.

Drill holes into the eye sockets. You will need this access to instal the wiring.

Drill two more holes on the underside of the skull. Again, this is access you need to install the electronics.

Screw the jaw bar into place

Screw the jaw assembly onto the skull with 2-3" screws. Superglue the temple insets into place and add in the resin detail pieces as shown on the finished prop.

Trim and paint the piston and neck assembly chrome . Basecoat the entire skull EQUIPMENT YELLOW (krylon brand)

Painting step 2: The head is neve r one solid-color. It is a MOTTLING of various rust, yellow, and tan colors. Mix and apply these loosely using thinned-down acrylic.

After the first layer is dry, you'll want to go back over the entire thing again with a dry-brush mottling technique. This time, focus on DARK highlights. Achieve this by mixing a little black with the rust colors.

Finally, go through the surfaces and LIGHT highlight. The final step is applying silver and black weathering/ battledamage.

Drill appropriate-sized holes to insert your neck supports (do the same for the jaw pistons)

Proper hole alignment for the neck support is shown here.

Hotglue the LEDs into the transluscent eyes and paint them a dark brown (almost black). Then paint the eyesockets the same dark color. HOTGLUE the eyes into the sockets. The battery pack and on/off switch are placed as shown here.

FINISHED ABC WARRIOR!!!

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Optional LED light kit.

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