Doktor’s Mask Completed
Today I finished off my sci-fi plague doctor mask. There were a few tasks left to do. One was to remove the left lens and reglue it as it hadn’t bonded properly to the rubber. I used a file to score the lens surface and the rubber to allow the adhesive to key better to the materials. The lenses are glued to the rubber with contact adhesive and then I’ve added in pieces of duct tape which I’ve found sticks to rubber very well. This is just to give it a little more strength.
I found some foam that had been used to pack a laptop and carved that into shape, padding out the beak of the mask.
I’d already cut open the vents on the beak and pushed the LED arrays into them. I cut more foam to hold them in place and stop the two sides of the arrays from touching each other. Finally I cut in a hole to mount the microphone.
The straps had been held together with safety pins so I quickly sewed them up and that completed the mask. The next thing will be finding a suitable hose to link the mask to the laptop on my back. It will carry the wires you can see in the photos.
I’ve also started work on Doktor’s hands. I’ve been struggling to find some leather gloves and remembered I had some old biking gloves. I painted up any non-black parts black and the result looks like this:
The glove needs a good going over with some dubbin to get it nice and black again then I’ll dry brush to make the armour match the mask and the claws that will be glued onto the finger tips. The claw model I sculpted, cast into a plaster mould and is currently full of latex.
I’m only going to be able to produce a claw a day so it’ll be a while until they’re done.
In the meanwhile I need to look at the robe patterns I have and see what needs making. I have a large amount of black cotton ready to turn into his grim-reaperesque clothing.
