Here is my Captain America Build

This build looks like it will provide real world protection!

Are your sleeves and abs going to be leather?

Here are the gloves there made from leather..

Fly4v said:

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This build looks like it will provide real world protection!

Are your sleeves and abs going to be leather?

hmm I never thought of leather I was thinking of cotton to breath. I do however have a tone of leather I was going to stretch leather over the mask but that proved to be very difficult to do so I have a ton of blue leather about a cows worth I will save it for a future project..

Stretched leather like a venetian mask but for your head ....

Make a DOT approved helmet with leather covering and you could get all those customers from UD replicas that wanted helmets to so with their C.A. motorcycle suits.

Fly4v said:

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Stretched leather like a venetian mask but for your head ....

Make a DOT approved helmet with leather covering and you could get all those customers from UD replicas that wanted helmets to so with their C.A. motorcycle suits.

If I had a pattern to use I could easily make one I can so I just can't wrap my brain around measuring the helmet. I can sew anything I'm just not good at making patterns.

The vest looks great! I've always been partial to the "scale vest". For the helmet, could you make the patterns the way a tailor Or dress maker would make dress patterns. I don't know if there's a specific name for it. But I can picture it in my head.

MandoMan531 said:

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The vest looks great! I've always been partial to the "scale vest". For the helmet, could you make the patterns the way a tailor Or dress maker would make dress patterns. I don't know if there's a specific name for it. But I can picture it in my head.

How would you do the star on the vest?

How about a metal or chromed star?

I'd do the star in urethane rubber with silver pigment. Unless you want the star white, then use white rubber. I wouldn't do a hard star, doesn't make much sense. A flexible star would definitely be best, in my opinion.

Of course youd need a star to make the mold of. Look around craft/hobby store and places that sell decorations, might find something there.

What did you use to get that texture in the helmet

jruiz0216 said:

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What did you use to get that texture in the helmet

I think it was krylon texture speckle paint I will take picture for you later.

MandoMan531 said:

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I'd do the star in urethane rubber with silver pigment. Unless you want the star white, then use white rubber. I wouldn't do a hard star, doesn't make much sense. A flexible star would definitely be best, in my opinion.

Of course youd need a star to make the mold of. Look around craft/hobby store and places that sell decorations, might find something there.

I was thinking of somthing like that with embeddid earth magnets with the apposing magnets glued under the scales it may work and stillbe flexable when moving we will see I will need to hit the auto body section for some tool dip.

Ok I plan on making the unser shirt today so here are my questions

1: What fabric do you guys sugest?
2: should I go with blue under the the scale?
3: how fer up the neck should I go?

I'm new - where do you get the original mold? Did you sculpt it?

trentonresident said:

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I'm new - where do you get the original mold? Did you sculpt it?

I sculpted it I cheated I used one of those walmart masks for the mold then poured fiberglass resen then used a bicicle helmet for the back half of the mold

1.) Cotton Twill
2.) Yes
3.) Collar line like the Ultimates Cap.

And being clever isn't cheating.

Actually if your goin to use something store bought I'd use silicone caulking or sealant rather than tool dip.Silicone will already be white or clear. I'm not sure how to dye it if you wanted a silver star.

I will try several diffrent methods to see what works best but ultimately I think vinyl star cut around the scales might be the best to allow the scales to move freely.

sick lookin helmet man. you got any pics from the back before you painted it? did you mold the bike helmet?

CapMerica said:

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sick lookin helmet man. you got any pics from the back before you painted it? did you mold the bike helmet?

what I did was tak a bike hemet put tape over the holes on the inside then put the fiberglass cloth and puored the resin -- once dried I poped it out and cut it in half for the back half of my helmet I had to keep reshapint it I still am not happy I will probably scrap it and try again.

here it is early very unfinished it does not have the flair like the movie replica if I do it again it will be much better.

those of you wanting to do this method with the raised letter "A" the walmart mask inner diameter makes a perfect mold.




all I did was trim that grey crap off and poured fiberglass resen into the inner cavity.. I suppose you could even fill in the "A" if you wanted the painted on version from the movie..

If you want a lip on the back like the TFA helmet, could use your same method with a surplus M-1 helmet.
Even the older Protech plastic helmet would work. They were skateboard helmets before the military started issuing them so you may be able to get one at ToysRus or Walmart.

Fly4v said:

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If you want a lip on the back like the TFA helmet, could use your same method with a surplus M-1 helmet.
Even the older Protech plastic helmet would work. They were skateboard helmets before the military started issuing them so you may be able to get one at ToysRus or Walmart.

im scrapping that helmet and im gonna create a mold tonight ima user the sam process as I did with the first on but I will sculpt the back end I like th raised letter "A" I just wan the flair and the faux leather seam if im successfull I will try and make a few extras.