After much contemplation I've decided to simplify my original plans by combining the resin piece between the eyes, upper beak trim (
which hides the handstitching) and transitional beak trim into one piece of leather.
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First I airbrushed the mask with an undercoating of violet dye. Then I cut and attached the trim piece with domed rivets. As you can see I made the shape of the trim a bit more interesting than I had originally planned.
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Here I have added matching domed rivets all around the surround, purely for decoration.
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I then stained the mask brownish black, and left some of the violet (
and undyed trim color) showing through to give it more character. Plain old black would have looked bland and modern.
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These are the two eyepieces cast in cold cast aluminum. The one on the right is a nonagon (
a nine sided polygon) with a nonagon cut-out which has been rotated 20°. I find its mechanical look quite pleasing.
The level of detail (nonagon) you put into the little things is beautiful.
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