outatime26
Active Member
Hi there
So this is one of my two costumes for London Film and Comic con in July
I started both in late January and I've been meaning to post a thread on the forum for a while but now it majority of it's finished I thought I'd start one up
I wanted to go for Cap's WW2 outfit with his first shield. So I started off with the major components, ie the shield and the helmet, seeing as they would make or break the costume.
The shield was originally made out of a steel sheet metal, courtesy of my father, but I later found out I wouldn't be able to take it with me around the con for obvious reasons so I needed a thinner lighter material that I would be deemed safe to take around the con. In the end I used the back off an old frame from IKEA.
Here's it after it's been cut out. I used a curved piece of wood which was then screwed to the back of the board to keep the shape of the shield. The screws were then covered up with a light layer of bodyfiller.
Here's it after a layer of black and then silver paint.
I then used vaseline to mark out bits where I wanted the paint to flake off. Then I proceeded to give it a coat of white, repeat the vaseline technique, tape it off and add a coat of red.
After the coat of red I realised the stripes were too far up and there wasn't enough room for the blue and the stars so I remeasured everything, taped off the new line for the blue, taped off the stars and then went straight to painting the blue layer.
After weathering it this is the finished result.
So far so good
So this is one of my two costumes for London Film and Comic con in July
I started both in late January and I've been meaning to post a thread on the forum for a while but now it majority of it's finished I thought I'd start one up
I wanted to go for Cap's WW2 outfit with his first shield. So I started off with the major components, ie the shield and the helmet, seeing as they would make or break the costume.
The shield was originally made out of a steel sheet metal, courtesy of my father, but I later found out I wouldn't be able to take it with me around the con for obvious reasons so I needed a thinner lighter material that I would be deemed safe to take around the con. In the end I used the back off an old frame from IKEA.
Here's it after it's been cut out. I used a curved piece of wood which was then screwed to the back of the board to keep the shape of the shield. The screws were then covered up with a light layer of bodyfiller.
Here's it after a layer of black and then silver paint.
I then used vaseline to mark out bits where I wanted the paint to flake off. Then I proceeded to give it a coat of white, repeat the vaseline technique, tape it off and add a coat of red.
After the coat of red I realised the stripes were too far up and there wasn't enough room for the blue and the stars so I remeasured everything, taped off the new line for the blue, taped off the stars and then went straight to painting the blue layer.
After weathering it this is the finished result.
So far so good
