The New Avengers 'Cybernaut' Bust Displays.

Avengerholic · Post by **Avengerholic** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:31 pm

This was an idea I had for four identical 1st prize winners trophies, built from scratch, for an event taking place later this year. Hard work building four, but I'm finding them fun to make all the same

Ultimately, when the first trophy was completed and then submitted, the design wasn't liked by one of the organisers and rejected, hence the trophies below will not be used. Still no worries, as everyone else inc my friends and family who saw it really liked it. I'm continuing to build the full set all the same, I'd already made all of the parts necessary to complete the four anyway. I thought I'd document building them along the way, in case it's of interest to anyone, or in case anyone would like to attempt something similar for themselves. I think they would look cool in a den, or what's that term 'man cave'

1 of 4

Avengerholic · Post by **Avengerholic** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:33 pm

You need to repeat this process for each trophy.

Resin top coat

Fibreglass underbody

Avengerholic · Post by **Avengerholic** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:39 pm

A Cybernaut in a bubble bath

Once fully cured a quick sand, trim and an undercoat of aluminium.

Avengerholic · Post by **Avengerholic** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:46 pm

Once that was completed, I did the same procedure creating four black pigment fibreglass half Homburg hats as those were the style used in the New Avengers. I then bonded the fibreglass mask and the fibreglass half homburg to create one complete fibreglass cast.

The very rough fibreglass casting before it's refined

Four heavy duty acrylic high gloss black bases needed to be built to stop the trophies from toppling over as the heads were fairly weighty !

Some refining to perfect the head casting, and a rough fit up of the bust and stand

Avengerholic · Post by **Avengerholic** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 1:06 pm

Cut display plates from four different colours of 3mm Fluorescent acrylic sheet to back the engraved metal plaques (just to make the trophies slightly unique from each other)

No.1 finished & No.2 awaiting a top coat of matt black and aluminium paint, glasses, silk hat band and winners plaque.

Avengerholic · Post by **Avengerholic** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:27 am

No.3 on the grinder while the top coat of paint on No.2 is drying out

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:24 pm

Ian

These are looking good, a production line no less.

Avengerholic · Post by **Avengerholic** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:34 pm

MikeR wrote:Ian

These are looking good, a production line no less.

You're very kind Mike, as always. Thank you very much. I'm not good at building two of anything, retreading old ground is a struggle for me as I get bored quickly. So building FOUR of these is a nightmare, and certainly not something I'd choose to take on, but as I'd started what I was asked to do, I'm bloody well determined to see it through to the end. I'm sure three will be fully completed by tomorrow night, with the final one well under way. After that I can put the whole project behind me and concentrate on finishing all the other stuff I've already got on the go

Avengerholic · Post by **Avengerholic** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:31 pm

My back garden is looking like a lost episode of The New Avengers this afternoon'The March Of The Cybernauts'

See what I did there, March Of .... you know ... It's March

... And the display stands ... Thank the Lord it's nearly over !

Avengerholic · Post by **Avengerholic** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:33 am

Nearly there. These three have all had their final hammered aluminium finish paint jobs, and are now stacked up in the workshop ready to have the finishing touches added later today, really, really cool

I love em