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Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
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Author:  melek_taus [ Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
Under that armor and cape...

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Flesh Bigaro with yellow, orange, red and purple dye treatments. Armor dyed with yellow then red and purple highlights. Body dyed orange, then red, then purple.

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The monkey head is a soft Chinese (vinyl?) toy dyed purple and fitted over the neck joint just for fun.

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Author:  sumatra71 [ Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
this biggy slams...!!! nice job melek, love the chest plate work..
Author:  melek_taus [ Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
Hey thanks sumatra71. I appreciate it. :mrgreen:
Author:  JoeMan [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:07 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
Yeah, I've never seen dye used so precisely. Love the striping. Especially the clouds in front of the sun effect.
Author:  Prometheum5 [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
This is really, really cool! The colors are so vibrant... but how did you mask the dye? Or are those parts sprayed? It's fantastic.
Author:  melek_taus [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
JoeMan- I wasn't sure that part was going to come out. This guy was kind of an experiment. Like most of my attempts at customizing. I was very happy it turned out like it did.

Prometheum- Dye is actually pretty easy to mask. Anything you can do to keep the liquid from contacting the surface you want to mask works. For the rising sun effect, I used strips of electrical tape and then applied the dye super carefully with a circular sponge I cut. The hardest part is that, because the dye works best with heat, I had to keep dipping and applying the dye over and over. It takes forever for the vinyl to dye this way and you have to be very careful of stray drips, splashes, etc.
Author:  Vombie [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
there's a monkey under there! no wonder bigaro was so short compared to the others!

nice colors, mt.
Author:  Prometheum5 [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
Awesome, thanks for the tip. I always assumed the dye would 'spread' more, so it would get under a mask. Very cool.
Author:  Leecifer [ Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:28 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bigaro: A Purple Headed Monkey?
Hahaha! How can you go wrong w/ "Monkey Head"! Cool.
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