isthispermanent
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Good morning. First time posting to this site. Go easy on me.
I just started building the Atreides armor from Dune 2021 and hope you all enjoy so that I can get some fake internet points/transient dopamine hit. This build actually started with the Atreides knife/sheath, and while staring at screenshots of those for hours on end, I figured I could probably also make the gauntlets.
The screen used gloves are (I think) Mechanix M-Pact .5mm Covert gloves. These are $50 on the Mechanix website and they have writing on the index finger, so they won't work. Perhaps the film got some specially made. I opted for the M-Pact Grey, because they were $15 and still fit the theme of grey/black. Those are in the mail. While I waited I pondered how to make the gauntlet. I believes that they are wearing a long sleeve shirt/jacket, elbow pads probably sewn in, with a separate piece that fits over the sleeve, like a bracer. The bracer I think is a black piece with 3 separate grey pieces attached. In the above image it looks like one piece for the dorsum of the hand, one for the wrist, and another further up the forearm. It looks like there is another black piece underneath all this which they are all attached to, which makes sense for ease of donning, both for the film and for a real work scenario. What's easier, attaching 3 separate pieces of armor, or 1?
I haven't figured out this black base piece yet, but I did assemble the 2 grey pieces. I used a 2 layer system of grey anti-fatigue mat ($10 at job lot of harbor freight) with a layer of Fiskers self healing cutting mat on top ($50 for the 2'x3' piece, hopefully the largest expenditure for this build) I did this because I wanted this to be somewhat functional. The mat provides blunt force protection, and the self healing mat is pretty cut resistant. It won't stop a lasgun, but it might stop a slash from a Harkonnen blade. It's also light grey on one side and dark grey on the other, so if the paint chips off, it will still look mostly the right color.
Step 1 is make a carboard template, then cut it into the foam, slightly smaller then the template, then cut the self healing mat on the scroll saw. I couldn't find any pictures of how the black strap attaches to the black underlayer, so I went with double sided velcro strap. it looks good and is the simplest attachment solution. The strap is visible and goes through both layers of armor on the medial side (refer to your anatomical charts if necessary) but appears to come out under the self healing mat and on top of the anti-fatigue. To keep it all together I used a small black fastener on the lateral side. This isn't screen accurate but the pauldrons have small black fasteners so I didn't think one on the gauntlet would be too far from in-universe acceptable. The image below shows the rough steps I took, before painting (it's outside drying now).
Unfinished result:
not great pics, but hopefully I can show you something more finished soon.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
I just started building the Atreides armor from Dune 2021 and hope you all enjoy so that I can get some fake internet points/transient dopamine hit. This build actually started with the Atreides knife/sheath, and while staring at screenshots of those for hours on end, I figured I could probably also make the gauntlets.
The screen used gloves are (I think) Mechanix M-Pact .5mm Covert gloves. These are $50 on the Mechanix website and they have writing on the index finger, so they won't work. Perhaps the film got some specially made. I opted for the M-Pact Grey, because they were $15 and still fit the theme of grey/black. Those are in the mail. While I waited I pondered how to make the gauntlet. I believes that they are wearing a long sleeve shirt/jacket, elbow pads probably sewn in, with a separate piece that fits over the sleeve, like a bracer. The bracer I think is a black piece with 3 separate grey pieces attached. In the above image it looks like one piece for the dorsum of the hand, one for the wrist, and another further up the forearm. It looks like there is another black piece underneath all this which they are all attached to, which makes sense for ease of donning, both for the film and for a real work scenario. What's easier, attaching 3 separate pieces of armor, or 1?
I haven't figured out this black base piece yet, but I did assemble the 2 grey pieces. I used a 2 layer system of grey anti-fatigue mat ($10 at job lot of harbor freight) with a layer of Fiskers self healing cutting mat on top ($50 for the 2'x3' piece, hopefully the largest expenditure for this build) I did this because I wanted this to be somewhat functional. The mat provides blunt force protection, and the self healing mat is pretty cut resistant. It won't stop a lasgun, but it might stop a slash from a Harkonnen blade. It's also light grey on one side and dark grey on the other, so if the paint chips off, it will still look mostly the right color.
Step 1 is make a carboard template, then cut it into the foam, slightly smaller then the template, then cut the self healing mat on the scroll saw. I couldn't find any pictures of how the black strap attaches to the black underlayer, so I went with double sided velcro strap. it looks good and is the simplest attachment solution. The strap is visible and goes through both layers of armor on the medial side (refer to your anatomical charts if necessary) but appears to come out under the self healing mat and on top of the anti-fatigue. To keep it all together I used a small black fastener on the lateral side. This isn't screen accurate but the pauldrons have small black fasteners so I didn't think one on the gauntlet would be too far from in-universe acceptable. The image below shows the rough steps I took, before painting (it's outside drying now).
Unfinished result:
not great pics, but hopefully I can show you something more finished soon.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
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