Re: "Captain America, how exciting!" Now with Winter Soldier Concept Art
Thanks!
The kids that know better may have some corrections but here is how it was done.
The ear flap was a single piece of paper. I made a pattern from typing paper and taped it to the side of the TFA pep helmet. The inside of the helmet was already glassed.
Once era flap was correct size, cut out a left and right from the heavier card stock, bent and hot glued it into place.
For the raised side detail, I also made a typing paper pattern so that I could cut multiple layers of glass to the same shape.
Cutting glass requires very sharp scissors and they don't stay sharp for long.
The glass likes to fray and pull when cutting curves so I ran a line of blue masking tape where the cut will fall. It made it easier to cut and hold the shape.
Pulling the tape off dry is a mistake. :angry But I discovered that the masking tape will float off the glass when permeated with resin.
So I painted the resin on the helmet with a glue brush and then set the cloth in the resin. The black marker lines help as a guide.
After about 5 minutes the tape can be removed. Some areas need more coaxing than others so I use the pointed end of a bamboo stick to lift the tape and keep working the glass into the resin with the brush.
The resin as a long working time and a 1:1 mixture. For proper mixing, I use an old double tube syringe and decant the resin and hardener from the larger bottles into the tubes. There is brown masking tape on the resin side of the plunger... don't want to confuse the two.
I have a proper mix every time and there is little waste.
captain_america_foam_helmet.pdf
