A:IW Bucky Barnes Build (Pic Heavy)

AmitKer

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Hi everyone! In honor of Bucky's new actual hero suit (really, his costume in Civil War was just a disappointing black jacket) and BEAUTIFUL wakandan arm, I decided to attempt a build of the character for the opening night of the much-anticipated Avengers: Infinity War (Hell yeah, it's so close). It's been a while but Bucky has been a favourite of mine to revamp and rebuild in the last few years, every time trying new techniques in order to perfect the (arm's, mostly) movie look and mobilty. So this is gonna be rather fun.

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(These are of my most recent build, back in, I believe, 2015.)


This time, first of all, it was brought to my attention that the suit is comprised of a jumpsuit (pants, a torso piece with breathable mesh and sleeves all-connected), and on top of it a sleeveless vest, to allow the arms to move up and down more freely, without causing the whole vest to move with them (and by that make the performer feel and look more comfortable during action scenes). So that's a thing I'm going to convey this time around.
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My main fabrics are going to be these three - the sturdy brown one for the pants, the black pleather-y one for the shoulder and arm guards, and the blue nylon fabric for the suit itself, which has got a kind-of-a-weird "fabric designed especially for the production" vibes. Gotta work with what is within my budget.
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The pattern I'll be using is a civil-war soldier pattern of McCalls' with an overlapping front-section, much like Bucky's, that will be revamped where needed, in all hopes that it will be even slightly helpful (I'll be damned, I'm awful with patterns).
https://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m4745

As for the arm, my previous one I built was a worbla on a spandex sleeve, and it was quite good in my opinion - only problems are that it was always falling of my shoulder, and that the texture of the worbla was way too rough and it was really hard to make it smooth while retaining it's flexible traits. This time, I'm keeping the spandex sleeve, but planning to sculpt the pieces out of clay and make a cast with semi-flexible polyurethane resin, in order to get a smooth look AND flexibility/durability; and after it's done and painted, attach it to the jumpsuit itself, whether it will be with strong glue or with some kind of a harness. I'll decide when I get there.

For now, all I've done is cut a cardboard core and covered it with expanding polyurethane foam, that i carved into the general shape, and then wrapped with a layer of cheap plaster bandages to block up the big holes; Nothing exciting or picture-worthy, but that'll be the base for the clay sculpture (probably next week).

I've also ordered a new lace-front wig from Amazon for a more accurate, realistic and appealing look when in costume.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0739NB36P/

And lastly, for good measure, here are all the helpful references I could find, in the best available resolution (like, a 15MB file):
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...Here we go.

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Re: A:IW Bucky Barnes Speed-Build! (PIC HEAVY)

Any updates on this? If you do modify the pattern for the jacket I'd be extremely interested in it.
 
Re: A:IW Bucky Barnes Speed-Build! (PIC HEAVY)

A VERY LATE UPDATE:

Sculpting this perplexing design of an arm - the pieces are so unintuitive, seriously - was tricky, but I got it made. It's almost weird to me, that it feels way less finished than the one built by Hydra.
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And then 3 layers of Rebound 25 and a plaster shell. Working with silicone was a joy, and the day after I was left with a beautiful mould.
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Then problems started. The polyurethane I purchased was Smooth-Cast 45D. I don't know what I did wrong, but the first and second tries of casting came out awful. Tiny bubbles everywhere (that formed during the curing process), and the final casting vas not rigid enouh to keep shape. In the end the only okay-ish things I had done with it were the different buckles of the jacket. Which is definitely something, but I was still really dissapointed.

I then bought a batch of a generic rigid polyester resin from a local hardware store, but it was very runny, the curing process was way too slow, and I ended up losing a lot of resin that just got poured out. I thought about buying a fiber-based filler that'd hopefully allow me to brush it peoperly, but with running out of budget for the project I simply ended up putting it aside and setting my mind to other things. And I thought maybe the film itself would motivate me again, but after watching it on opening night I was even more bummed out by that out-of-nowhere, depressing ending.

Bottom line, I think it'll be just a project for another day at this point. Maybe when the art-book gets released and we get some good new references. Stuff happens and I really prefer working on projects that make me feel good. Right now, IW Bucky ain't one of those. :unsure
 
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