Lady S
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I've been a lurker here for a couple of years now, but have rarely posted. However, my friends and I have started the process of a Rescue armor build and I know that this is something that many people have questions about, so I thought I'd share our process. I will be editing together a video documentary to post once this is all over with, but for now, I will just update with pictures.
I had commissioned Master Le to make the 1616 build for me, but once I saw her new armor, I fell completely in love with it (not actually being a fan of the 1616 in the first place). But I had planned to not worry about it since my 1616 was already being built.
Then Matt Fraction (who is my favorite comic book writer right now) mentioned in a pod cast how he's looking forward to seeing me as Rescue again this year and everything, and my friend Kit Quinn told me that there's not way I can't do the new armor now, lol.
Neither of us have any experience with armor making, but she really wants to learn, so we've both been doing this together under the wise tutelage of Mike Schiffbauer.
Our first stage was to make a body cast of myself. We just used plaster strips bought from Micheal's, cut them, covered my body in saran wrap (cause Vasaline is too messy) and laid the plaster strips on top. We did this in sections, not my entire body at once. I still ended up passing out at the end, though. But the good news: the cast was saved! lol
It took an entire day, but it worked well and didn't cost too much. Once the casts dried, we shored them up by adding more strips to the edges and any weak spots.
Instead of posting pictures for this stage, you can see some in Kit's article on Comic Impact about it. It goes more into detail than I did:
ComicImpact.com » Blog Archive » DIY Rescue Armor Part I
This weekend we will strengthen the casts and start sculpting the pieces out of clay. I'll post pictures and thoughts on that once it happens.
I had commissioned Master Le to make the 1616 build for me, but once I saw her new armor, I fell completely in love with it (not actually being a fan of the 1616 in the first place). But I had planned to not worry about it since my 1616 was already being built.
Then Matt Fraction (who is my favorite comic book writer right now) mentioned in a pod cast how he's looking forward to seeing me as Rescue again this year and everything, and my friend Kit Quinn told me that there's not way I can't do the new armor now, lol.
Neither of us have any experience with armor making, but she really wants to learn, so we've both been doing this together under the wise tutelage of Mike Schiffbauer.
Our first stage was to make a body cast of myself. We just used plaster strips bought from Micheal's, cut them, covered my body in saran wrap (cause Vasaline is too messy) and laid the plaster strips on top. We did this in sections, not my entire body at once. I still ended up passing out at the end, though. But the good news: the cast was saved! lol
It took an entire day, but it worked well and didn't cost too much. Once the casts dried, we shored them up by adding more strips to the edges and any weak spots.
Instead of posting pictures for this stage, you can see some in Kit's article on Comic Impact about it. It goes more into detail than I did:
ComicImpact.com » Blog Archive » DIY Rescue Armor Part I
This weekend we will strengthen the casts and start sculpting the pieces out of clay. I'll post pictures and thoughts on that once it happens.
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