Build Your Own Sci-Fi Suit of Armor

I mentioned this over at the Lost in Schlock Facebook page but I love it so much that I think it's worth repeating here.

Backyard FX has a incredible tutorial on how to make sci-fi DEAD SPACE inspired armor out of garage rubber foam pads and the use of a heat gun. 

Full video here.

Build a Time Machine

It's no Tardis but It Can Still Time Travel

It may not be the Tardis but this is a cool prop to build for your next time travel film or anything else sci-fi.

Full details on the build can be found here.

Here is a vid of it in action:

How to Build A 1950's Raygun

Perfect for the next Buck Rogers

Here is yet another fantastic tutorial on how to build a 1950's era inspired ray gun.  The perfect thing for anyone into cosplay or wanting to make their own pulp serial webseries.  Full details here.

Inspiration: The Making of the Visual Effects for ALIENS

Here is a cool set of vids that I discovered a few minutes ago on the visual effects that were created to bring ALIENS to the big screen.  It's awe inspiring on what can be done without the need to go the CG route.

Inspiration: The Dollar Store Lightsaber Contest

Much like the dollar store laser gun this prop is equally cool.  The Replica Prop Forums had a contest to see if anyone could build a Star Wars inspired lightsaber using only parts found from a dollar store.  Here is the winner:



It's amazing what can be found at the dollar store these days

Full details on how it was made found here.

Another Rocket Pack How-To

Here is another Rocket Pack how-to currently making the rounds on the internet.  Similar to the Indy Mogul version it uses 2 liter soda bottles and other inexpensive parts and the end result is spiffy. 

Go here for the full how-to
See the Indy Mogul version of a rocket

(via Super Punch)

How to Build a Doctor Who Weeping Angel

Here is a cool use of Monster Mud; someone has built a replica of a infamous Weeping Angel from the current Doctor Who series.  It's the perfect thing to geek up your home haunt or just something ot have in your garden.  Full details here.

More Monster Mud details here.

Steampunk Rayguns

No Steampunk costume this Halloween is complete without some gear to go with it, so why not check out this tutorial and build your own raygun.  Instructions here.

Learn How to Build a Dalek The Official BBC Way

Here is a set of official BBC blueprints on how to build one of Doctor Who's notorious enemies, The Daleks.  These amazing set of how-to instructions were rescued from a now defunct Doctor Who FTP site.

Go here for full blueprints and how-to instructions.

(via Boing Boing)

Prop Inspiration: Gingerdead Man 3

Dave Lowe, who is an amazing and highly creative prop designer, had the unique opportunity (and challenge) to create a few props for the Full Moon movie, GINGERDEAD MAN 3. 

The budget given to him was only 200 bucks which proves that Full Moon is really a b-movie kind of company.  Go here to see more pics of the cool props that Lowe helped design and create.

Links-O-Rama 7-30-10

Here are a few links that you may have missed out by not joining the Lost in Schlock Facebook page:

Bob Burns remembers creature fx/puppeteer/monster suit maker Paul Blaisdell

Inspiration: A Re-Animated Limb Prop

Learn how to build simple mache fake rocks 

Tons more of great tutorials and inspirational vids can be found over at the Lost in Schlock Facebook page. Join today!

Build Your Own Mutant/Alien Fetus in a Jar

Over at the Indy Mogul messageboard, forum member Baron Von Fogel, posted a cool and creepy mutant/fetus in a jar tutorial.  Check it out.

Baron Von Vogel also has his own prop site which can be found here.

How to Build Night Vision Goggles

The gang over at Indy Mogul's Backyard FX has yet another fantastic prop build on how to build very own fake night vision goggles!  They may not actually work and you won't be able to see a thing through them, however they are awesome.