my Captain America Winter Soldier Stealth Suit WIP
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Tengu3
Active Member
'come on GM. Put together a Disguise shield "Upgrade Kit" and sell it in the Junkyard!
Precut PVC foam board pieces, belts, buckles and all the hardware, a can of Plastidip, a package of 3M extreme mounting tape, bit of sandpaper, and a can of the Rustoleum professional metallic aluminum.
Or, since you already have almost done so, post a "parts list" with source links for those of us who wish to follow in your sage footsteps (can footsteps be sage?).
Thanks for all you've done to help us (by which I mean "me") along. Thanks for sharing.
Precut PVC foam board pieces, belts, buckles and all the hardware, a can of Plastidip, a package of 3M extreme mounting tape, bit of sandpaper, and a can of the Rustoleum professional metallic aluminum.
Or, since you already have almost done so, post a "parts list" with source links for those of us who wish to follow in your sage footsteps (can footsteps be sage?).
Thanks for all you've done to help us (by which I mean "me") along. Thanks for sharing.
CAPtainAmerica7
New Member
What are you using as a base suit? is it just a navy jumpsuit(type) thing or something else? looks great man, really like the shield and straps.
What are you using to strengthen the shield?
grey matter
Well-Known Member
Long time, no post.
Sorry for such a delay in updating this build. It has been slow going and I've run into a few snags. But I have also made some other cool improvements.
Snags
Fabric for suit
- Had the perfect color and texture (cordura) swatch
- Ordered 5 yards and the color I got was way off
- Contacted the company and they said that it was either a color they don't cary or the swatch came from an off color run of the fabric I got
So, back the the hunt for that
Shield
- Had everything worked out and completely done for this (at least I was happy with how done it was)
- Wore it out for a day, it fell multiple time and was taking a good beating and still going strong
- One drop, I picked it up from an edge quickly and the weight of the rest of the shield "ripped" the plastic of the shield like it was paper
I'll have to make a new shield, but I should be able to salvage the brackets and straps just fine. I am considering getting one of the ABS plastic airsoft shield ones. They pop up on ebay frequently.
Time
- been very busy in daily life and not much time for costuming
Good Things
Shield
- I figured out how to make magnets work to hold the shield in place
- Just need to make it blend more with the back harness
Helmet
- Got my helmet from Biggeek (it's awesome!)
- Painted it up and made the leathers and chin strap
Gloves
- Finished gloves to my liking (they are sort of a combo of the gloves in WS and the new ones in AoU)
Belt
- Finished my belt base and put the pre-bought pouches on it (looks pretty good, but i might make pouches)
I'll post pictures soon, on top of daily life, I have a bad cold and no energy.
Sorry for such a delay in updating this build. It has been slow going and I've run into a few snags. But I have also made some other cool improvements.
Snags
Fabric for suit
- Had the perfect color and texture (cordura) swatch
- Ordered 5 yards and the color I got was way off
- Contacted the company and they said that it was either a color they don't cary or the swatch came from an off color run of the fabric I got
So, back the the hunt for that
Shield
- Had everything worked out and completely done for this (at least I was happy with how done it was)
- Wore it out for a day, it fell multiple time and was taking a good beating and still going strong
- One drop, I picked it up from an edge quickly and the weight of the rest of the shield "ripped" the plastic of the shield like it was paper
I'll have to make a new shield, but I should be able to salvage the brackets and straps just fine. I am considering getting one of the ABS plastic airsoft shield ones. They pop up on ebay frequently.
Time
- been very busy in daily life and not much time for costuming
Good Things
Shield
- I figured out how to make magnets work to hold the shield in place
- Just need to make it blend more with the back harness
Helmet
- Got my helmet from Biggeek (it's awesome!)
- Painted it up and made the leathers and chin strap
Gloves
- Finished gloves to my liking (they are sort of a combo of the gloves in WS and the new ones in AoU)
Belt
- Finished my belt base and put the pre-bought pouches on it (looks pretty good, but i might make pouches)
I'll post pictures soon, on top of daily life, I have a bad cold and no energy.
BoogieBear
Active Member
Awesome man. Can't wait to see the pics!
cavedwellar
Sr Member
Me too!
grey matter
Well-Known Member
Finally able to get some time to put a post together. All kinds of busy life stuff.
Fist up, the shield. Since it got a crack/tear in it, I wanted to make a new one and attempt to make some improvements.
Here's a shot of the crack/tear. I know if I were to take this one out again, it would only get worse and I'd be shieldless. So, new one it is.
One thing that was temporary with this one was a trial magnet system. I used the same position on the back of the shield as I did for the post system I used to go into the harness.
The magnet was a 26 pound test one that had a center hole, I used the same one on the harness to hold it in place. It did a great job. For the new shield, I'll make it look prettier.
I found one of the airsoft shields on ebay and it was pre-painted. The paint job is pretty good, the colors are nice and have the same metallic effect that car paint does. It is shiny. I'm on the fence about how I feel about that. It looks nice, but not as easy to match parts to and not as close to screen accurate. Still trying to decide how I am going to dull it down, if I go with a matte finish when it is done. It does have that one imperfection in it. I'm not sure if it was my fault or not (see more below on that), but I'll work around it and maybe make it a battle damaged area.
The airsoft shield is super sturdy and doesn't weigh much more than the disguise costume shield. It is smaller (22" vs 24"), but still feels like a good size.
It does have it's own bracket/handle system (Fly4v used those as part of his upgraded bracket system), but I wanted to reuse the ones I had already made, so I needed to remove the metal and plastic bracket. I did this with my dremel with a fine cutting bit. 3 of the 4 came off without too much trouble, but one of them is where I think I made the imperfection on the front side happen. The metal part of the bracket was deeper in the plastic than the rest and when I tried to get it out (grinding and cutting bits), I think I heated the metal up and caused the plastic to melt. So, I left one of them in, but was still able to sand it all down pretty smooth. My recommendation on this if you get an airsoft shield, leave the brackets and work around them or into your bracket design, unless you have good experience with a dremel or other cutting tool. I also sanded out the molded in lettering of the company name.
Then I wanted to make a more screen accurate star for the front. I have seen other's engrave in the design, but I wanted mine to be more dimensional. So, I used a thin sheet of styrene to cut it out of. I used a small flat screwdriver to carve out the lines on the star and a drill bit to make the holes. I did the drill bit turing by hand so that i had complete control over how it was cutting. I think it came out pretty nice.
I started painting the star, it is going to be challenging to get it to the same glossiness as the rest of the shield. No pictures of this process yet, I'll update that soon.
Fist up, the shield. Since it got a crack/tear in it, I wanted to make a new one and attempt to make some improvements.
Here's a shot of the crack/tear. I know if I were to take this one out again, it would only get worse and I'd be shieldless. So, new one it is.
One thing that was temporary with this one was a trial magnet system. I used the same position on the back of the shield as I did for the post system I used to go into the harness.
The magnet was a 26 pound test one that had a center hole, I used the same one on the harness to hold it in place. It did a great job. For the new shield, I'll make it look prettier.
I found one of the airsoft shields on ebay and it was pre-painted. The paint job is pretty good, the colors are nice and have the same metallic effect that car paint does. It is shiny. I'm on the fence about how I feel about that. It looks nice, but not as easy to match parts to and not as close to screen accurate. Still trying to decide how I am going to dull it down, if I go with a matte finish when it is done. It does have that one imperfection in it. I'm not sure if it was my fault or not (see more below on that), but I'll work around it and maybe make it a battle damaged area.
The airsoft shield is super sturdy and doesn't weigh much more than the disguise costume shield. It is smaller (22" vs 24"), but still feels like a good size.
It does have it's own bracket/handle system (Fly4v used those as part of his upgraded bracket system), but I wanted to reuse the ones I had already made, so I needed to remove the metal and plastic bracket. I did this with my dremel with a fine cutting bit. 3 of the 4 came off without too much trouble, but one of them is where I think I made the imperfection on the front side happen. The metal part of the bracket was deeper in the plastic than the rest and when I tried to get it out (grinding and cutting bits), I think I heated the metal up and caused the plastic to melt. So, I left one of them in, but was still able to sand it all down pretty smooth. My recommendation on this if you get an airsoft shield, leave the brackets and work around them or into your bracket design, unless you have good experience with a dremel or other cutting tool. I also sanded out the molded in lettering of the company name.
Then I wanted to make a more screen accurate star for the front. I have seen other's engrave in the design, but I wanted mine to be more dimensional. So, I used a thin sheet of styrene to cut it out of. I used a small flat screwdriver to carve out the lines on the star and a drill bit to make the holes. I did the drill bit turing by hand so that i had complete control over how it was cutting. I think it came out pretty nice.
I started painting the star, it is going to be challenging to get it to the same glossiness as the rest of the shield. No pictures of this process yet, I'll update that soon.
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grey matter
Well-Known Member
Next up, the gloves.
I decided to not go completely screen accurate with these, but pretty close (sort of closer to AoU Cap and I'll be able to use these revamped for that too).
I got some tactical gloves from amazon. They were a lighter tan color, but I used some brown shoe leather dye to make them darker brown. The color almost matches perfectly the vinyl I've been using for everything else too.
I ordered one of the helmets from Biggeek. It's awesome! I did my own paint job on it. I used Montana Gold acrylic spray paint for the two shades of blue (ultramarine and navy) and did the rest with regular acrylic craft paint. Learning note on this; I wish I had done the whole thing with the regular acrylic paint. I had to touch up some spots from the spray paint, and the regular pair was way easier to work with and I had more control. I'll probably do more wear/damage on this later. Plus it is glossier than I'd like, so I am going to wet sand it down some and see if I can get it more dulled.
I made the straps from some tan nylon webbing. I sewed the webbing with a darker brown thread to get the lines on them (I included a picture of my sewing machine with the setting used to make the lines). I made the "leathers" out of the same vinyl I've been using for everything).In the shots with the helmet on below, I had to use a stand in buckle, because the metal one I ordered had not come in yet (actually came in finally yesterday, so I'm stoke to get that part done soon). I also only used aluminum tape for the metal pieces on the sides, but am making those out of the thin styrene as well. (more pics soon on that)
Here are a few shots of the costume so far. I wore it to the premiere and everyone loved it! Got tons of people asking to hold the shield and lots of pictures asked for. Even though I had to throw together an outfit and had no gloves, belt, helmet or good boots, it was still a hit.
We then had a superhero day at work. I of course had to wear this, again the outfit was thrown together, but I had better boots this time and I had the helmet, gloves, and belt done. It just so happen to also be my birthday, so extra fun day! I was the only one who went all out (one girl did wear an Elastigirl outfit from the Incredibles, she was awesome!), everyone else wore like a tshirt or hat.
So far, so good with this. It's a slow process for me, but I'm happy with it so far and I'm having fun working on it. And I was able to find a good use for the broken shield.
That's an old lighted movie poster display form an old theater that was being torn down in the area and I try to put seasonal or inspirational things in it.
More to come soon!
I decided to not go completely screen accurate with these, but pretty close (sort of closer to AoU Cap and I'll be able to use these revamped for that too).
I got some tactical gloves from amazon. They were a lighter tan color, but I used some brown shoe leather dye to make them darker brown. The color almost matches perfectly the vinyl I've been using for everything else too.
I ordered one of the helmets from Biggeek. It's awesome! I did my own paint job on it. I used Montana Gold acrylic spray paint for the two shades of blue (ultramarine and navy) and did the rest with regular acrylic craft paint. Learning note on this; I wish I had done the whole thing with the regular acrylic paint. I had to touch up some spots from the spray paint, and the regular pair was way easier to work with and I had more control. I'll probably do more wear/damage on this later. Plus it is glossier than I'd like, so I am going to wet sand it down some and see if I can get it more dulled.
I made the straps from some tan nylon webbing. I sewed the webbing with a darker brown thread to get the lines on them (I included a picture of my sewing machine with the setting used to make the lines). I made the "leathers" out of the same vinyl I've been using for everything).In the shots with the helmet on below, I had to use a stand in buckle, because the metal one I ordered had not come in yet (actually came in finally yesterday, so I'm stoke to get that part done soon). I also only used aluminum tape for the metal pieces on the sides, but am making those out of the thin styrene as well. (more pics soon on that)
Here are a few shots of the costume so far. I wore it to the premiere and everyone loved it! Got tons of people asking to hold the shield and lots of pictures asked for. Even though I had to throw together an outfit and had no gloves, belt, helmet or good boots, it was still a hit.
We then had a superhero day at work. I of course had to wear this, again the outfit was thrown together, but I had better boots this time and I had the helmet, gloves, and belt done. It just so happen to also be my birthday, so extra fun day! I was the only one who went all out (one girl did wear an Elastigirl outfit from the Incredibles, she was awesome!), everyone else wore like a tshirt or hat.
So far, so good with this. It's a slow process for me, but I'm happy with it so far and I'm having fun working on it. And I was able to find a good use for the broken shield.
That's an old lighted movie poster display form an old theater that was being torn down in the area and I try to put seasonal or inspirational things in it.
More to come soon!
Fly4v
Sr Member
Now that is a way to display your shield!
Really wish we had a super hero day at work. The combination of Cap and street clothing looks great.
grey matter
Well-Known Member
Thanks! I am hoping to get my new shield done by July 4th. I plan on wearing that and my harness with street clothes for most of the day and to go see fireworks that night.
grey matter
Well-Known Member
Update with the Shield.
So, after working on the the separate star for the front of the airsoft shield, I decided that I would try to use the raised star already molded on the shield instead. Long story short, I like it!
But, here's the long story. I studied some images of the screen used shield (lots of pausing on the end credits of Avengers) and some shots from prop photos. I decided I could engrave the design the movie shield has, just as I had with the separate star I cut out and had planned to use by gluing it on top.
I sanded down the star on the shield using a combination of wet sanding with 320, 600 and 1200 to get the clear coat off and make it nice and smooth. Then I made my measurements and penciled in my design on the shield.
To get the lines to have depth, I used a small flat head screw driver to etch out the lines. And I used a drill bit and turned it by hand to get the rivet holes (or whatever they are called). I had two little mess up spots where the screw driver slipped and scratched the surface really bad. I was pretty bummed at the time, but after sanding, it came out ok.
Cool lithe thing that happened was that with the etching done, you are able to see light through the shield. Thought I'd take a picture before painting it.
Then I masked off the rest of the shield and painted it silver.
It's looking good so far. I am leaving it masked for now because I still need to paint the back after I mount the brackets. After that is done and I remove the tape I'll see if I need to gloss coat the star or not, or if I am just going to try and mute the glossiness down on the rest of the shield.
So, after working on the the separate star for the front of the airsoft shield, I decided that I would try to use the raised star already molded on the shield instead. Long story short, I like it!
But, here's the long story. I studied some images of the screen used shield (lots of pausing on the end credits of Avengers) and some shots from prop photos. I decided I could engrave the design the movie shield has, just as I had with the separate star I cut out and had planned to use by gluing it on top.
I sanded down the star on the shield using a combination of wet sanding with 320, 600 and 1200 to get the clear coat off and make it nice and smooth. Then I made my measurements and penciled in my design on the shield.
To get the lines to have depth, I used a small flat head screw driver to etch out the lines. And I used a drill bit and turned it by hand to get the rivet holes (or whatever they are called). I had two little mess up spots where the screw driver slipped and scratched the surface really bad. I was pretty bummed at the time, but after sanding, it came out ok.
Cool lithe thing that happened was that with the etching done, you are able to see light through the shield. Thought I'd take a picture before painting it.
Then I masked off the rest of the shield and painted it silver.
It's looking good so far. I am leaving it masked for now because I still need to paint the back after I mount the brackets. After that is done and I remove the tape I'll see if I need to gloss coat the star or not, or if I am just going to try and mute the glossiness down on the rest of the shield.
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grey matter
Well-Known Member
I just got back from vacation and noticed that some of the images were not loading, so I edited the post and re-uploaded them.
Going to work on getting my brackets on the shield tomorrow, pics to follow!
Going to work on getting my brackets on the shield tomorrow, pics to follow!
grey matter
Well-Known Member
Thanks! I am going to make the spats/gaiters out of a darker brown vinyl and navy blue vinyl with some straps and buckles. I got the Magnum Mach 1's as my base boot so that i can reuse them for AoU if (when) I decide to make that costume too.
Rush, Rush, Rush! You only have a week until the 4th.
I know!! I made some good progress on the shield today as far as getting the brackets in place and re-fitted to this size shield. I should be able to paint the inside of the shield tomorrow night, as long as it's not raining or too hot and humid. And I think my magnetic holding system will work too, so that's exciting!
RandomHero08
Member
Hey, suit looks awesome, but question, wat are those on the gloves cuffs? I saw in a pic that those weren't there, did u make them? They look cool and if u made em wat are they made of and how can I do that?
grey matter
Well-Known Member
Hey, thanks! Which part are you talking about; the band that goes around the wrist or the silver part on the cuff?
The cuff was made form the same brown vinyl that I have been using for everything else. The cool thing is that the underside is a darker brown material, which makes for the nice contrast in tones.
I'll post some better pictures of the finished gloves soon.
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