{"id":176,"date":"2015-07-21T04:16:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T04:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/florencechan.ca\/?p=176"},"modified":"2016-08-24T20:18:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:18:52","slug":"hellboy-mecha-glove-scorpion-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/florencechan.ca\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Hellboy mecha-glove ‘Scorpion Cage’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lately, I’ve been working on some modelling for Joshua Craig’s<\/a> Hellboy Mecha-glove project<\/a>; I’d previously modelled some less integral parts, but was honoured to be given the task of creating this much more central piece for the project.<\/p>\n

If you’re familiar with Hellboy (in particular, the first movie), you’ll know that the mecha-glove was a prop worn for a short amount of time by Karel Roden as Rasputin<\/a>, but which is an integral part in the lore behind Hellboy, as it’s the device by which he’s summoned to our world.<\/p>\n

One of the central parts is a box that contains a very large arthropod called a vinegaroon<\/a> (which IRL actually happens to squirt acetic acid as a defense mechanism – hence the name), and that’s the part Josh had me model.<\/p>\n

A few points of order:<\/p>\n

– The best known replica of the Hellboy mecha-glove is a set made by Mythbusters’<\/a> Adam Savage<\/a> and while all the parts you see below were modelled by me from scratch, it is from his extensive documentation<\/a>\u00a0made available for all replica prop makers\u00a0that many of these pieces were replicated in detail.<\/p>\n

– The vinegaroon was modelled in ZBrush and referenced more directly from image searched material involving Mastigoproctus giganteus<\/a>, which actually grows up to 85mm – which makes this print of the bug rather small (by about half)!<\/p>\n

– Since I’m missing the bottom piece of the box, I’ll update this page when I have a photo of it in hand.<\/p>\n\n\t\t