Dynofiend
Well-Known Member
Hi Guys,
My second costume ever, and this time a build for a friend who is accompanying me (as Iron Man) to an event in February 2013.
Credit to October and Rule for the jpg of the chest armour which I found in the very useful thread of JoshMosh on here.
October and Rules Cosplay Blog: Photo
First step was to scale the chest armour and print it out on paper. I taped the pieces together, cut out the various pieces, and transferred them to some 7mm EVA foam.
With reference to the real armour I glued it together in a 3D sort of way.
For the round buttons, I bought a large 8" diameter plastic 'ball and chain' (think medieval prisoner) and used a series of holesaws with my drill to drill out discs of the right size. The bonus being that the discs are pre-textured to resemble cast metal.
The greaves (im not making boots!) and vambrace were just free-handed (badly).
I used a soldering iron to draw on some detail to the vambrace and chest piece also.
Total build cost of what you see here is $15 and two evenings time.
I have also attached a copy of the image I used here. I take no credit for this at all. Entirely the work of October and Rule, it is however freely available on the internet with no requests not to share, no protection and no copyright claims etc
My second costume ever, and this time a build for a friend who is accompanying me (as Iron Man) to an event in February 2013.
Credit to October and Rule for the jpg of the chest armour which I found in the very useful thread of JoshMosh on here.
October and Rules Cosplay Blog: Photo
First step was to scale the chest armour and print it out on paper. I taped the pieces together, cut out the various pieces, and transferred them to some 7mm EVA foam.
With reference to the real armour I glued it together in a 3D sort of way.
For the round buttons, I bought a large 8" diameter plastic 'ball and chain' (think medieval prisoner) and used a series of holesaws with my drill to drill out discs of the right size. The bonus being that the discs are pre-textured to resemble cast metal.
The greaves (im not making boots!) and vambrace were just free-handed (badly).
I used a soldering iron to draw on some detail to the vambrace and chest piece also.
Total build cost of what you see here is $15 and two evenings time.
I have also attached a copy of the image I used here. I take no credit for this at all. Entirely the work of October and Rule, it is however freely available on the internet with no requests not to share, no protection and no copyright claims etc
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