^THIS^.Fetts.Sobriquet, you sir are the living embodiment of the true RPF spirit! Kudos to you! :thumbsup
You said you were giving it to your friends kid so does that mean we should scale up the templates to adult size?
I used a sleek bottomed thin foam sled for my iron man stomach along with 4 multiple sized baseball helmets for my shoulder armor, 7-11 cups for gauntlets, detergent bottles for biceps/upper arms, along with some old clone trooper parts, Plastic cups for trapezius area, etc. Mounted everything on some old motocross armor so that I could just slip it on and off. Bought the Helmet.
Dark! You sir are the Master! Thanks for the compliment . :cheers
Fetts,
Refreshing to see someone take an alternate route in releasing the "Ultra-super-Top-Secret" technique to build armor suits out of a readily/cheap source of plastic material. I spend alot of time my self sourcing readily available/cheap sources of plastics and foam peices at places like Walmart, Target, etc. I used a sleek bottomed thin foam sled for my iron man stomach along with 4 multiple sized baseball helmets for my shoulder armor, 7-11 cups for gauntlets, detergent bottles for biceps/upper arms, along with some old clone trooper parts, Plastic cups for trapezius area, etc. Mounted everything on some old motocross armor so that I could just slip it on and off. Bought the Helmet.
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Thanks for starting this thread
Very nice. Just a couple of quick questions, when the scale says 1:2 we print it double the size? What size paper are you using?
Fetts,
I did not intend to hijack your post, just re-enforce your point about what can be done with some plastic parts, trashcans, etc. Don't kid yourself, your MKV is going to kick ass. I have never attempted to make a helmet so I have to resort to buying them. I think that once you have a great helmet/mask that you are 80% there when going for a look. It takes a true "expert" on props to recognize a costumes faults and there are only so many "so-called experts" out there.
I cannot wait to see your finished product and just love the progress picks. I was just down in my basement last night cutting up a black trash can for parts of the War Machine so I got a big smile on my face when I saw your post. Sending templates out was thoughful and just awesome. There are some great people on these boards. That's why I'd like to think that they were created in the first place. This is some fun stuff! Take care and keep those posts coming. Thanks.
Paul D.