madrick
Active Member
Hey everyone!
So I just finished my Dredd helmet, which can be found in this thread http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=255611 , and thought "The helmet looks half decent, maybe I should try and make the body armour?" Now this is where I got stuck. I am a child of the Stallone Dredd, many call it corny etc but when I was a child watching it, it was awesome and now, having seen the great new Dredd 3D, I didn't know which armour to make.... so I decided to combine them together! I mean come on, those shoulders from the Stallone movie and comic books cannot be passed up.
So I set to doing some homework, I wanted it to be a hybrid between the two but also something that just MIGHT be credible in the real world. I decided to go with the general idea of the body armour of the Dredd 3D but to also add the classic-ness of the shoulders.
I got the general shapes of everything from golem95 at http://www.4shared.com/folder/UNoX32FG/templates.html
I used the template for the vest and the templates for the back plates. From there, I free handed the rest.
The idea.
Pec armour designed and measured.
Cutting and measuring it all out, trying to see how I can make it all fit.
Vest cut out and traced with all the armour plates, I was stuck between 2 pec armour designs. The reason I had two, it had to be practical in design that I could raise my arms in front of me without hitting the vest armour but also look cool.
Let the foam tracing and cutting out begin!
One thing I was curious to try out, was outlining all the armour plates with crevices. I thought it might add a little depth to the armour. To achieve this, I simply lightly cut over the traced lines and used a heat gun to open them up.
Vest was treated with the heat gun to create the appropriate curves.
Placed all the cut out foam pieces in their positions to see how it looks.
Traced the back armour.
Heat treatment.
Glue it all together.
If you stick the hot end of the glue gun into your skin, it hurts but if you stick it into the foam, you can get some sweet effects.
A quick look at it all.
NEXT UP: SHOULDERS AND CUSTOM BADGE!
So I just finished my Dredd helmet, which can be found in this thread http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=255611 , and thought "The helmet looks half decent, maybe I should try and make the body armour?" Now this is where I got stuck. I am a child of the Stallone Dredd, many call it corny etc but when I was a child watching it, it was awesome and now, having seen the great new Dredd 3D, I didn't know which armour to make.... so I decided to combine them together! I mean come on, those shoulders from the Stallone movie and comic books cannot be passed up.
So I set to doing some homework, I wanted it to be a hybrid between the two but also something that just MIGHT be credible in the real world. I decided to go with the general idea of the body armour of the Dredd 3D but to also add the classic-ness of the shoulders.
I got the general shapes of everything from golem95 at http://www.4shared.com/folder/UNoX32FG/templates.html
I used the template for the vest and the templates for the back plates. From there, I free handed the rest.
The idea.
Pec armour designed and measured.
Cutting and measuring it all out, trying to see how I can make it all fit.
Vest cut out and traced with all the armour plates, I was stuck between 2 pec armour designs. The reason I had two, it had to be practical in design that I could raise my arms in front of me without hitting the vest armour but also look cool.
Let the foam tracing and cutting out begin!
One thing I was curious to try out, was outlining all the armour plates with crevices. I thought it might add a little depth to the armour. To achieve this, I simply lightly cut over the traced lines and used a heat gun to open them up.
Vest was treated with the heat gun to create the appropriate curves.
Placed all the cut out foam pieces in their positions to see how it looks.
Traced the back armour.
Heat treatment.
Glue it all together.
If you stick the hot end of the glue gun into your skin, it hurts but if you stick it into the foam, you can get some sweet effects.
A quick look at it all.
NEXT UP: SHOULDERS AND CUSTOM BADGE!