Another Captain America Shield

SMOKE

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one night i was sitting out front and saw this table top heater and thought to myself, " hey that kinda looks like the capt's shield". i had some fiberglass mat and some resin lying around and decided to see if i could use it as a type of form to make a shield. i first coated it with sonite wax to help it release once the resin dried. here are some progress pics.
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sorry about the double post thought i was editing the first post.. will just edit this one with progress pics..

after that all hardened i pried it off of the metal form and viola'.. basic shield shape. next comes roughing out the edges then bondo.

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roughing out the edges.
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bondo..
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then sand, sand, sand sand....

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added some blue...
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Are you seeing that as THE shield or the mold to make a shield.

You try to make THAT the shield, you're in for about a hundred years of sanding.
 
Are you seeing that as THE shield or the mold to make a shield.

You try to make THAT the shield, you're in for about a hundred years of sanding.

yes i am using THE heat shield to make THAT shield. lol and the sanding was a total pain having to block it ALL out. the outside of my shop area looked like a winter wonderland, my lady was not as impressed as i was...:lol

here's some more progress pics

added the red and started to mask out the stripes and star
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more masking and painted the white
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removed the tape and came up with something like this.. i still need to clean up the lines where the masking tape was but all in all pretty satisfied with it.
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Use a nail with a string and a brand new Xacto blade to cut the circles rather than trying to lay down a perfect taped circle.

Nice sanding job.
 
Use a nail with a string and a brand new Xacto blade to cut the circles rather than trying to lay down a perfect taped circle.

Nice sanding job.

thanks for the tip man! that would def make the circles perfect, i plan on retouching the paint soon. after i pulled the tape off it was a, "f#$k.." moment. will be using the nail and xacto when i clean it up:lol

im glad the sanding is over...for now. :)
 
similar to how i made mine..

my parents had a larger old satilite dish that was no longer of any use, i laid fiberglass into that as a mold and it worked perfectly.... but that was probably close to 10 years ago?
 
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