By TacticalSponge
Apr 18, 2022
I took some old flood elite customs I didn't like much anymore and remade them into newer, better figures.
The process of making them was more or less the same across all four figures with the exception of different armor bits for the zealot and stealth flood. Each figure's armor around the chest and back was made by making partial casts of the Halo 3 elite armor and arranging them to look broken. The heads were also made using partial casts, though this time from a piece I had sculpted previously. The shoulder of the stealth elite was cloned from the piece used on the recent elite ultra figures while the thigh plates and zealot's shoulder were cloned from the old articulation elite field marshall. All of the flood biomass was sculpted.
The paint for the zealot and minors is pretty simple, just yellow/gold with brown accents and dark metallic blue respectively. The stealth elite is a bit more interesting in that it was first painted silver then washed with a light metallic blue a few times. The flood parts were all painted in a weird mix that I forgot, then washed with brown and black. They were all sealed with a gloss finish.
Included is an in-progress shot and a picture of the original customs made in 2017-2018. While the old figures look more dirty and the biomass tends to cover more surface area, I think I prefer the more contrasting look of the mutated flood skin and shiny armor being kept separate. Materials are the same as always: apoxie sculpt and green stuff for sculpting, vallejo for paint.
The process of making them was more or less the same across all four figures with the exception of different armor bits for the zealot and stealth flood. Each figure's armor around the chest and back was made by making partial casts of the Halo 3 elite armor and arranging them to look broken. The heads were also made using partial casts, though this time from a piece I had sculpted previously. The shoulder of the stealth elite was cloned from the piece used on the recent elite ultra figures while the thigh plates and zealot's shoulder were cloned from the old articulation elite field marshall. All of the flood biomass was sculpted.
The paint for the zealot and minors is pretty simple, just yellow/gold with brown accents and dark metallic blue respectively. The stealth elite is a bit more interesting in that it was first painted silver then washed with a light metallic blue a few times. The flood parts were all painted in a weird mix that I forgot, then washed with brown and black. They were all sealed with a gloss finish.
Included is an in-progress shot and a picture of the original customs made in 2017-2018. While the old figures look more dirty and the biomass tends to cover more surface area, I think I prefer the more contrasting look of the mutated flood skin and shiny armor being kept separate. Materials are the same as always: apoxie sculpt and green stuff for sculpting, vallejo for paint.