darkcloud643
New Member
Hi everyone! Let me first introduce myself since I'm new to the forums: My name is Stephan and I got into costume making through a Larp that I participate in. I'm still currently working on my first few armor pieces (chest/back plate, shoulders, & vambrace), but I have some questions for a future project I want to start on.
The current armor I'm working on is made out of EVA foam and these are the steps I've completely so far:
1. Made a template out of posterboard and cut out the foam pieces.
2. Used Heat gun to form the pieces and trimmed parts to fit.
3. Dremmel to smooth all the edges then hot knife to make the designs on the armor
What I have left to do:
1. Paint the armor pieces with 50/50 mixture of glue/water to act as a sealant.
2. Spray paint
3. Paint the designs ( I bought acrylic paint and was wondering if that would work when working on the designs on the armor? If not, what do you suggest?)
4. Plasti-dip
I'm still wanting the armor to be a ltitle flexible and it has to take a beating which is why I'm doing the plasti-dip at the end. Any thoughts or suggestions for this?
Also, I'm running into trouble trying to figure out how to connect my pieces. It needs to be an adjustable strap that I can tigthen. I was originally thinking double sided velcro straps, but I figured they might come undone if caught on anything. Currently, I just bought some parachute string and am using that to tighten and hold the pieces in place to see what it looks like assembled.
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For my future project I was aiming at doing something similiar to Immortal armor that the gods wore in the movie "Immortals".
Pictures:
http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/11166/11558476_1.jpg?v=8CE8542D05CD860
http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/isabel-lucas-immortals-photo2.jpg
(I do not own the rights to these photos, these are merly used as reference)
In the first picture, I've always wanted to make a design like that, but I can't figure out how to get the "popping" effect of the muscles etc. I originally thought about drawing the design on the foam and sanding down around all the other parts. Anyone have some other suggestions? Should I also just use leather string to tighten the armor like in the picture?
Thanks!
I've enjoyed browsing the forums and looking at all the different creations people are able to make. People here are so talented!
The current armor I'm working on is made out of EVA foam and these are the steps I've completely so far:
1. Made a template out of posterboard and cut out the foam pieces.
2. Used Heat gun to form the pieces and trimmed parts to fit.
3. Dremmel to smooth all the edges then hot knife to make the designs on the armor
What I have left to do:
1. Paint the armor pieces with 50/50 mixture of glue/water to act as a sealant.
2. Spray paint
3. Paint the designs ( I bought acrylic paint and was wondering if that would work when working on the designs on the armor? If not, what do you suggest?)
4. Plasti-dip
I'm still wanting the armor to be a ltitle flexible and it has to take a beating which is why I'm doing the plasti-dip at the end. Any thoughts or suggestions for this?
Also, I'm running into trouble trying to figure out how to connect my pieces. It needs to be an adjustable strap that I can tigthen. I was originally thinking double sided velcro straps, but I figured they might come undone if caught on anything. Currently, I just bought some parachute string and am using that to tighten and hold the pieces in place to see what it looks like assembled.
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For my future project I was aiming at doing something similiar to Immortal armor that the gods wore in the movie "Immortals".
Pictures:
http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/11166/11558476_1.jpg?v=8CE8542D05CD860
http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/isabel-lucas-immortals-photo2.jpg
(I do not own the rights to these photos, these are merly used as reference)
In the first picture, I've always wanted to make a design like that, but I can't figure out how to get the "popping" effect of the muscles etc. I originally thought about drawing the design on the foam and sanding down around all the other parts. Anyone have some other suggestions? Should I also just use leather string to tighten the armor like in the picture?
Thanks!
I've enjoyed browsing the forums and looking at all the different creations people are able to make. People here are so talented!