wetcelery
Active Member
Re: Disney Mulan/Ping Training Costume & Armour build
Just a bit of context before I carry on, in Day 9's post, the first photo was taken at 3pm (but I most likely started working at 1pm to work out the pattern) and the last one at 3:30am. But it was a Saturday so I was actually working from 5pm-11pm, therefore, although I title it a day, it really was only several hours work for what little I have to show, and not a full 12 hours! Just so you know a gauntlet can be made in a much shorter time frame than a day haha
DAY 10 (20/9/2015)
Shinguards
As we saw before, I made the patterns and cut the foam at 3am.
But of course, I am very, very short on foam and the size I have are not large enough to make the shinguards!! What can I do? Nothing but to just work with it! But it was late and I was knackered and it was far too much thinking - I went to bed. I could work it out tomorrow.
Next day came and I set myself to it. As you can see on my pattern, I have marked out the half way point. I ended up using two foam mats to one shin guard, and planned to connect it together in the middle. In any case, the pattern on the shinguard might actually be able to hide this, so it seems like a good idea:
Two mats = one shinguard. I placed both mats in the oven to heat and mould. Again, I had my brother on hand to help, and we held the mats tightly around his leg and pulled them so that they would meet as seamlessly as possible and hold that way when cooled. Repeat for the other leg. After, I hot glued the pieces together:
Once glued, I also kept curling it round into a tight cylinder, to make it as rounded as possible.
Again, retraced the pattern and after a lot of redrawing, I got the right shape for the surface layer. I originally wanted the line in the middle of the shinguard to be the main EVA base showing through, and that the surface pattern was two separate parts of thin craft foam. But now because I have this very telling joint line, I had to cover it up. Oh well, what can you do.
All thin foam was either hot-glued or super glued or spray glued on.
And there it is finally done and ready to seal!! I spent a day on each shinguard, between work. So DAY 11 (23/9/2015) I made the other shinguard, which is what actually you see in the photos. I forgot to document my bumbling about the first time round because I was so focussed on getting it done right.
Just a bit of context before I carry on, in Day 9's post, the first photo was taken at 3pm (but I most likely started working at 1pm to work out the pattern) and the last one at 3:30am. But it was a Saturday so I was actually working from 5pm-11pm, therefore, although I title it a day, it really was only several hours work for what little I have to show, and not a full 12 hours! Just so you know a gauntlet can be made in a much shorter time frame than a day haha
DAY 10 (20/9/2015)
Shinguards
As we saw before, I made the patterns and cut the foam at 3am.
But of course, I am very, very short on foam and the size I have are not large enough to make the shinguards!! What can I do? Nothing but to just work with it! But it was late and I was knackered and it was far too much thinking - I went to bed. I could work it out tomorrow.
Next day came and I set myself to it. As you can see on my pattern, I have marked out the half way point. I ended up using two foam mats to one shin guard, and planned to connect it together in the middle. In any case, the pattern on the shinguard might actually be able to hide this, so it seems like a good idea:
Two mats = one shinguard. I placed both mats in the oven to heat and mould. Again, I had my brother on hand to help, and we held the mats tightly around his leg and pulled them so that they would meet as seamlessly as possible and hold that way when cooled. Repeat for the other leg. After, I hot glued the pieces together:
Once glued, I also kept curling it round into a tight cylinder, to make it as rounded as possible.
Again, retraced the pattern and after a lot of redrawing, I got the right shape for the surface layer. I originally wanted the line in the middle of the shinguard to be the main EVA base showing through, and that the surface pattern was two separate parts of thin craft foam. But now because I have this very telling joint line, I had to cover it up. Oh well, what can you do.
All thin foam was either hot-glued or super glued or spray glued on.
And there it is finally done and ready to seal!! I spent a day on each shinguard, between work. So DAY 11 (23/9/2015) I made the other shinguard, which is what actually you see in the photos. I forgot to document my bumbling about the first time round because I was so focussed on getting it done right.