Amsterdamned
New Member
Hello all .
After so many time watching the Rocketeer, and after so many times looking at other peeps threads of a rocketeer costume, I've decided to try to make one for myself.
I have to tell you that I'm not skilled with foam nor paper, cause I've never used it actually also I have to give a shoutout to JF custom's foam files for providing the files.
I'm not done with the helmet yet, but in a few days I think I am. That being said, I wont paint this one cause I've allready made some huge errors when printing the templates.
(I tried to disnjoin some of the parts because of its size, but could not get them together again at the same size)
After I'm done, I'll start all over again but then with more care and without the errors I've made now.
Hope you enjoy so far.
For this build I've used;
Eva foam (5mm) from a yoga mat
A boxcutter and a exacto knife for the themplates
Hot glue gun
hot air gun
Ow,, and If you have any tips or tricks, please let me know, I'll need it.
(as always the most boring part,, also a white gelpen is not the way to go to draw on foam)
At first, after heating the foam and bending it, it seemed a little weak, but after glueing 2 pieces, it became much stronger)
It started to look pretty good but because I, wrongfully cut some pieces there are some errors. (the foam wasn't cut clean so I had a hard time glueing some pieces together) also, I just don't know when you need to cut in a 45 degree angle, can you see this on pepakura?
And this is how far I've come so far.
Hope you enjoy and have any tips for me.
After so many time watching the Rocketeer, and after so many times looking at other peeps threads of a rocketeer costume, I've decided to try to make one for myself.
I have to tell you that I'm not skilled with foam nor paper, cause I've never used it actually also I have to give a shoutout to JF custom's foam files for providing the files.
I'm not done with the helmet yet, but in a few days I think I am. That being said, I wont paint this one cause I've allready made some huge errors when printing the templates.
(I tried to disnjoin some of the parts because of its size, but could not get them together again at the same size)
After I'm done, I'll start all over again but then with more care and without the errors I've made now.
Hope you enjoy so far.
For this build I've used;
Eva foam (5mm) from a yoga mat
A boxcutter and a exacto knife for the themplates
Hot glue gun
hot air gun
Ow,, and If you have any tips or tricks, please let me know, I'll need it.
(as always the most boring part,, also a white gelpen is not the way to go to draw on foam)
At first, after heating the foam and bending it, it seemed a little weak, but after glueing 2 pieces, it became much stronger)
It started to look pretty good but because I, wrongfully cut some pieces there are some errors. (the foam wasn't cut clean so I had a hard time glueing some pieces together) also, I just don't know when you need to cut in a 45 degree angle, can you see this on pepakura?
And this is how far I've come so far.
Hope you enjoy and have any tips for me.