LastImmortal
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Awhile back, a friend of mine comissioned some fantasy/medieval armor from me. My original idea was to Pep the whole thing, but that was scraped due to lack of 3D rendering skils and the inablity to mentaly unfold an object like that.
What I did then was to use folded aluminum foil as 'wire' to make a cage-like out line of how the armor would look. Then I would cover the 'wire cage' with folded sheats of foil and then fiber glass it like any othe Pep model. This idea would have alowed me to make custom armor for people and it would only take a one hour sestion with my client to get the whole armor fitted. This did not work due to the foil base deforming under the weight of the fiber glass. Also, due to the slight shifting of the base while unglassed, I was not able to see a major symmetry problem untill after I had glassed the whole thing
I tried to stick with the 'wire cage' method since I wouldn't have to worry about size issues after the fitting/sizing session. I went with galvanized wire and sculpture armature mesh to make the base. Simular to how Volpin did the base for the Cassandra pauldron's mold master. (I did not use sulpting armature wire as I would need to spend about upwords of $99 for the amunt that I need, that and there was not enough at the store [it was about $11.50 for 4 feet.])
Now the problem is that the galvanized wire is not a truly vialble matiraial to work with. It has too much memory, so it snaps back out of the shape you just put it in. Also trying to fix one curve or angle messes up all the other angles and curves.
Although I am not under any pressure from a dead line as of right now, I am compleatly lost and do not know what to do. RPF people, I need your help please.
What I did then was to use folded aluminum foil as 'wire' to make a cage-like out line of how the armor would look. Then I would cover the 'wire cage' with folded sheats of foil and then fiber glass it like any othe Pep model. This idea would have alowed me to make custom armor for people and it would only take a one hour sestion with my client to get the whole armor fitted. This did not work due to the foil base deforming under the weight of the fiber glass. Also, due to the slight shifting of the base while unglassed, I was not able to see a major symmetry problem untill after I had glassed the whole thing
I tried to stick with the 'wire cage' method since I wouldn't have to worry about size issues after the fitting/sizing session. I went with galvanized wire and sculpture armature mesh to make the base. Simular to how Volpin did the base for the Cassandra pauldron's mold master. (I did not use sulpting armature wire as I would need to spend about upwords of $99 for the amunt that I need, that and there was not enough at the store [it was about $11.50 for 4 feet.])
Now the problem is that the galvanized wire is not a truly vialble matiraial to work with. It has too much memory, so it snaps back out of the shape you just put it in. Also trying to fix one curve or angle messes up all the other angles and curves.
Although I am not under any pressure from a dead line as of right now, I am compleatly lost and do not know what to do. RPF people, I need your help please.
