Immortan Joe costume from Mad Max, Fury Road

[eriksmask]

Definitely recomend, the damp sponge or cloth!!! This helped immensely with getting all the contoured shapes.

 

[immortanjoanna]

Also! What material is everyone using for the wraps around the arms etc - just wanted to get an idea because I have to make some kind of top to go under the armour, and start stitching it to my corset, and wouldn't mind making the arm wraps etc 'set' so I can easily pull on/off for ease of getting in and out of the whole thing.

 

[Ein]

I might also recommend XTC-3D as a joining material. I was actually planning on 'reinforcing' my worbla copy of the armor with XTC, as it is a pretty quick-drying resin and dries mostly clear (just a tiny bit cloudy white). Might not be perfectly clear, but it would make the piece a lot less vinyl-y and a lot more like ABS in terms of material flexibility.



This is XTC applied to the inside of a plastic snapple bottle just as a test. I got bored while waiting for it to dry so I mostly let it pool in the bottom, rather than sitting there brushing it back out (XTC is fairly liquid and 'runny' at first, so you have to tend it with a brush). Still, makes the plastic a lot stronger. The plastic gets a bit of a lensing distortion effect where the XTC is and it's probably a quarter inch thick at the deepest parts of that bottle, but you can still see through it okay.

 

[Bigboss1o1]

You think you can pump a chest, back, and shoulders out of just a large sheet?


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[ahoudini]

Joanna, I got a fairly loose weave linen lookalike in ivory from JoAnne fabrics.


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[aestheticus]

I had to take a break from Joe last night, but here are the shoulder pieces I got started on. I still need to smooth them out a bit more, but this gives you an idea of what a seam would look like straight on, from the side, and how bad blemishes can be when distressing.

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Bigboss1o1, I dont know if it's possible or not. I think it would depend on how you pattern and lay it all out.

 

[Bigboss1o1]

That doesn't look bad at all man it looks pretty awesome actually are you going to do a fabric outline or just use warbla


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[aestheticus]

That doesn't look bad at all man it looks pretty awesome actually are you going to do a fabric outline or just use warbla


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Thanks! My plan is to first get some 2mm thick metal wire, shape that how I want the armor to look, then glue it along with some fabric along the sides. Regular worbla would be great for this if I had enough, but I think I can make the fabric/wire combo work pretty well.

 

[Bigboss1o1]

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Men-s-Steel-Toe-Knee-Boot/22346774
Yeah these are the boots I got the fit better then you would think and there low budget which is great


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[aestheticus]

Also on the topic of shaping the chest, I had an idea last night. I'm going to try using my 3d printer to get the proper shape for the abs. If I take the shape I want, and print it such that I have a concave version of it, then smooth it with acetone / epoxy / XTC3D.... I might be able to get pretty good results when forming the worbla to the inside. I still plan to do a few different sections all glued together for the chest so that if I mess something up, the entire piece isn't ruined. This process would definitely take some time, but while it's printing I can be painting or sewing something else. Plus I still have almost a month left and when the armor is done, the rest is comparatively 'easy'. Going to hopefully get the pattern done tonight.

 

[ahoudini]

So 1 giant print for the whole abs section, or 1 print for each "can" in the "six pack?"


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[Ein]

I considered doing something similar, but I didn't like the idea for two reasons. First, it struck me as a pretty expensive use of plastic on the printer - to do the torso I could easily see burning through 3-4 reels just to create a mold. Secondly, even if you're printing in ABS, isn't the fact that you're using a heatgun to form the worbla likely to end up warping the mold that you've printed, too?

On the other hand, if you come up with a model to use as a form for the worbla, I'd love to see it shared because as I think about it, it'd be an interesting exercise to try anyway.

 

[aestheticus]

ahoudini - I'd probably do a print for each pec, and two prints for the left and right set of abs.

Ein - I use Hatchbox or IC3D from Amazon, so 1kg is around $30 - $35. I can easily print off the individual muscles without using more than 1/3 of a roll. Probably print at 0.3 mm layer height, 15% infill. I doubt the heatgun would do much to the ABS plastic, it extrudes at 230c and I wouldn't be applying the heat directly to it. The worbla would (in theory) absorb a fair amount. Valid concerns though and I could be completely wrong about this approach.

If I get it working, I'll definitely share my models and results!

 

[ahoudini]

Here is the medal ribbon info. I bought all of the bias tape at MJTrim.com:



Some of this needs coloring with a marker (The wide pink should be wide red. They were out, so I bought pink and colored it red with a marker).

I bought the narrow woven trim (gimp) from warehousefabricsinc.com

You need two colors and the backside is mounted outward. Unfortunately, I can no longer find the exact patterns I used on the site.

Finally you will need some easy-to-find metallic gold zigzag trim. Get it at Jo Ann Fabric.


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[Ein]

Thanks a million for the direction there, ahoudini.

 

[aestheticus]

Out of curiosity, what print bed size are people using? Upon further testing with glue and discussion with my girlfriend, I think that the glue method will lend itself really well to the shoulder pieces, but there is concern about using that for an entire chest plate, too much risk of it all falling apart. So we brainstormed some more. I'm going to print out the individual muscles, but attempt to work with just two pieces, since his chest plate has that actual divide going through it.

I started modeling the torso tonight, but before I start cutting it up into STLs, I'd like to know what bed sizes people are using in the event this method actually works.

Edit: Also, I did a test to see if the ABS plastic could stand up to my heat gun, and it passed without any issue. The worbla was the consistency of plastic wrap, so the heat for just basic shaping shouldn't be an issue.

 

[ahoudini]

6" x 9"


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[Bigboss1o1]

I'm curious what are you guys using for pants I don't even know what to even look for


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[ahoudini]

I got white painter's pants but that was before the good pants photo surfaced. They show very little between the chaps and the "skirt," anyway.


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[aestheticus]

I'm using an old pair of white gi pants.Cheap and comfy. Just need to sew some pockets into them.