indiefilmgeek
Sr Member
After being HULKBUSTER last year, my 8yr old wanted to do another armored suit for Halloween 2016. Unfortunately, I've been extremely busy at work and only ended up with ~6 weeks to construct his requested Armored Batman from Batman v Superman. [how could I say no, right?]
Before diving into the build, I'll show you what it ended up looking like.
THE BUILD:
I started off by buying a hi-res pep file from AZTLAN, but with my limited amount of time I simply couldn't afford to build the peps AND then convert them to foam templates for the construction... So, I abandoned the peps and just free-handed most of the pieces.
Like with the Hulkbuster build, I started with the boots and worked my way up... I took a pair of boots he could fit and I didn't mind destroying and then gorilla glued a base of floor-mat foam onto them with enough clearance that normal walking would keep the foam exterior off the ground.
After roughing out the boot armor I damaged it up with a wood-burning tool and prepped it for plasti-dip/paint/finishing.
I then started in on the leg units. I would make paper and duct tape templates from straight off of my 8yr old son's legs and then build up the armor to look like the images of the suit online. I had a rough pep of the upper leg to work off as well (for reference).
With both legs done, we did our first test-fit.
More WIP pics to come...
Before diving into the build, I'll show you what it ended up looking like.
THE BUILD:
I started off by buying a hi-res pep file from AZTLAN, but with my limited amount of time I simply couldn't afford to build the peps AND then convert them to foam templates for the construction... So, I abandoned the peps and just free-handed most of the pieces.
Like with the Hulkbuster build, I started with the boots and worked my way up... I took a pair of boots he could fit and I didn't mind destroying and then gorilla glued a base of floor-mat foam onto them with enough clearance that normal walking would keep the foam exterior off the ground.
After roughing out the boot armor I damaged it up with a wood-burning tool and prepped it for plasti-dip/paint/finishing.
I then started in on the leg units. I would make paper and duct tape templates from straight off of my 8yr old son's legs and then build up the armor to look like the images of the suit online. I had a rough pep of the upper leg to work off as well (for reference).
With both legs done, we did our first test-fit.
More WIP pics to come...
