Forearm question

[Neutronium]

I am in the middle of sculpting my new forearm moulds. After spending an age looking at various reference pictures I still cant make my mind up if the left and right forearms are from the same moulds?

 

The raised section with the hollows cut out is obviously twisted slightly, but on some pictures it twists towards the thumb and on others it twists towards the little finger. Unfortunately I cant find a picture with a view of both arms to see if one side twists up and the other down or if the twists are both in the same direction

 

Your thoughts would be appreciated

 

Wil.

[SuperTrooper]

Screen used forearms had a right and left. Look for pictures of TM armor for the best examples as a screen used right forearm has never been cast for the TE2 kits, AP includes 2 lefts, and FX has 2 identical generic forearms.

 

Good luck.

[Dargas[501st]]

As far as I understood, both forearms are the same thing. One mould will do fine for both. I´m checking my FX forearms here and they look the same and I´m also checking the pics in the shepperton studios TK armor kit manual (A friend bought a helmet and it came with it and he lend it to me...indefenetly LOL) and it seems both forearms are the same also, even though he lists them for sale as two different parts (Left and Right.)

 

now checking the movies I could swear both had differet sides shapes but I can´t really say i´m right about that impresion.

 

hope that helps!

[troopermaster]

There is a right and left arm and they are different from each other, not one mould for both. They are not mirror images of each other too, so don't try to make them that way if you are looking to make them screen accurate.

 

Have you got any pics of your sculpts?

[Neutronium]

Thanks for your help. Just need to try and spot the differences between the right and left sides now then . Another few hours staring at my reference pics should help !!

 

troopermaster said:

Have you got any pics of your sculpts?

 

 

I have a couple of pics of the inside of the forearm. I think the "muscle bulge" might be a little too pronounced. I am thinking of taking it down a little to try and match the pictures I am using a little better. The bulge doesnt look to big on my screen grabs.

 

This is done in plastacene at the moment and needs a little final smoothing before I take a female cast and then make the final mould in Herculite. (Also I think I need to add a taper to the wrist end to help the mould release.

 

What do you think?

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[Daetrin[Admin]]

My TE2 is for sure not the same right and left.

[troopermaster]

If you are making two seperate forearms you will need four moulds, so the inner arm you have sculpted needs to lose one of the flat edges. Choose which arm this sculpt is for and smooth off the bottom edge as the original armour only had a flat edge on the top of the arm.

 

The forearm muscle is not as pronounced as what you have there, they are flatter and the wrist opening is larger to allow your hands to get through. Sculpt a kind of semi circle on the end of the wrist to allow for easy mould removal and this will also reduce the chance of webbing when forming them.

[Peregrinus]

I can't remember which is which, but one forearm on the original suit had one more inset square detail than the other. Brian Muir has acknowledged this, and admits he miscounted in his haste to get the sculpts done in time.

 

--Jonah

[Neutronium]

I can't remember which is which, but one forearm on the original suit had one more inset square detail than the other. Brian Muir has acknowledged this, and admits he miscounted in his haste to get the sculpts done in time.

 

--Jonah

 

Didn't know that, I did notice that sandtroopers seem to have 12 indents whilst the storm troopers (in ANH at least) have 11 indents.

Went back and checked my reference pics and then I noticed that just about all my sandy pics were of right arms and my stormtrooper pics were of left arms. I then managed to find one good pic with both sides of a stormtrooper and you are quite right, 12 indents on the right and 11 indents on the left.

 

If any one wants to see the pics, I can post them for you.

 

Wil