These pictures are just for example, as this is the background for the final photos I'll post. I just want to put a little more junk on the floor around Arnies' feet for a more dramatic effect. The sun was too bright for me to take a good far away shot without washing out the detail.

The backdrop was made from a series of squares that I designed on the computer, and printed up. I then glued these pieces of printer paper onto cardboard cut to fit these once glued to the surface. This is supposed to look like a diamond plate floor with a bunch of steel plated walls behind.  I painted it over with automotive primer to simulate dirt, and grime.

You can't really tell, except in person that I repainted Arnie in brighter chrome enamel paint. This makes him look more like a real Terminator made from stainless steel as opposed to just gray water based acrylic. It helps to look at him from all angles in bright sunlight to appreciate this effect.

The chain was for a toilet tank flapper valve that I cut down soley for this backdrop. The hook was made from a leftover piece of scrap that I cut from another project. It was already this round shape. This is what Bob Ross always called "A happy little accident", which inspired me to use it. I just bent the other end over to hold it to the chain. The aluminum tubing I used to hold this up went into another project that I'm currently working on.

None of these elements are meant to be sent with the figure, but are for another project altogether. I figured that this would do double duty, so I used this for taking photos of Arnie as if in a actual steel mill.

The laser eye was photoshopped for this effect. I didn't change it. I just wanted to see this with it lit up like the ones in the movie.

This is a few inches from the wall even though it doesn't look like it.

This is supposed to be the finished product. I took the grenade launcher out of Arnies' hand as this was only held on with masking tape. This kept falling out while taking these pictures. I finally got sick of repositioning it, and put it away. Some of these photos are posted out of order.

I was waiting around till you finished to post again so I hope you didn't take it as lack of interest.

What can I say??? I'll second that I hope the guy is paying you well - professional job all around!

Again beautiful job and thanks for letting us see your progress!

I  L-O-V-E  IT!  It was a pleasure following your work.  What will you be doing next?  Another character from the Hollywood movies or somethinig like that?  It is always a nice break to see something other than WW2 figures. 

Here's your  answer. This is almost at an end - I have two more alterations that I want to do before I post this to ebay.  I've now completed all the weapons for this, and all the build requirements. I'm going to alter Arnies' left eye a little to make it more realistic, and add some metal to Arnies' right hand, then this will be complete with no more alterations.  NEXT - Project X. Stay tuned!

This isn't a new project, but this is one that I was working on for another member of the forums. I spoke to him last in late August, and I haven't heard from him since. I must assume that he's no longer among the living, or his living situation has changed drastically. I was comissioned to build, and paint this back in March of this year, but I didn't think about altering this from the painted metal skeleton to actual aluminum foil until now in order to make this look more realistic.

The sculpt isn't perfectly smooth underneath since this was all done at the same time. However, this made it even harder to apply the metal sheet over it. I used Reynolds' wrap foil, and Elmers glue. I should've used the 3M spray adhesive instead. I just didn't want a big mess on my hands, and be forced to start over from scratch.  This only compounded the problem with trying to achieve a smooth surface even with brushes, and cotton swabs. The irregular surface, and space with the fragile foil made this a nightmare to get where I am on it now. I don't know if I want to change this by starting over one piece at a time with the 3M stuff, or just leave it as it is. After looking at this I want to change it, but I know how this will turn out. 

This is the shotgun that Arnie's supposed to be holding in his right hand, but I didn't know that when I built this kit. This rifle took me almost two weeks of off, and on building to allow paint to dry, and for parts manufacture. This is made from actual maple for the stock, and handgrips. They're decorated with steel sewing pins. The barrels are made from aluminum, and the lever is made from two paper clips bent around to shape with a styrene block superglued in between for the lever mount. The reinforcements are made from aluminum tubing that I cut with a tubing cutter, then cut in half. The round part at the backside, and the rest was flattened, and superglued along the rails toward the bottom, and front of the lever. I used a styrene pin to hold the lever in place - this allows it to move. I stained the wood to match the original prop, and clearcoated it with acrylic enamel clearcoat, then rubbed it to a dull shine. This even has the makers marks on the top left side with the logo on both sides of the breach/lock.  This entire thing is glued with superglue thick for assembly, except for the handgrips - this was done with Elmers' glue. It was the only thing that was thick enough to hold it in place while it dried.

I still have to get pictures figured out, so I can post them all in one spot. When this happens, I'll post the final build, and work in progress in this thread.  Thanks for looking.

                                                                    ~ Cobra Chris

Beautiful work!  Wasn't Arnold the Cyberdyne Systems model 101 and the Dennis Patrick Memetic Poly Alloy terminator the Cyberdyne model T-1000?  Maybe I missed a more updated Arnold model from the latest movie or the Sarah Connor series.  Does anybody make the Summer Glau Terminator as a model?