Hi, guys and girls!
SO, first of all, I would like to thank you very much for all of the love you´ve been giving me regarding this build, it was a labor of love here, and getting some of it back has been, to say the least, overwhelming. As much as I could thank you guys, it´s not even close to the warmth you make me feel.
Again, thank you all.
Now, regarding the breastplate, which seems to be the most asked about part, (which is odd, for there are other parts that were more tricky, but oh, well
) I didn´t take any WIP pictures. Not because I didn´t WANT to, but because there was no TIME to. It was a build made in one sitting.
What I did was to check out the design first. You can see that I elaborated on it, but more on that later, the first part was to de-construct it to the bare minimum - Wings, body, tail, and tackle them separately. Each of the three feathers of the wings were made first in a sheet of 1mm PVC, and then I glued over them some golden leather bands (which was a waste, due to the next step). I thought that gold would be a good color there, but the thing is - I decided later to line it (just like you´d cover a notebook with plastic, let´s say) with a metallized synthetic leather.
This sort of vinyl is thicker than the usual variety, and it does have a bit of an one-way stretch, and therefore I lined the feather of the wing like this : Tip<--->tip and covered it with the stretchy material going like this : Stretchy<=====>stretchy. The reason being that the wing would bend, and therefore it would be good if it bent in the proper manner. A good side-effect to that is that the strips of golden leather that were inside proved to be somewhat of a resistance, and therefore once I bent it, they formed grooves in the material, which was, to me, the coronation of the design.
As for the body, four sheets of PVC, which you can see where the seams are, and some more golden material folded in triangles to disguise the union and to enhance the look. Tails? a big square of that material folded like a woman´s fan, and some EVA strips under the folds. Not a big thing. All of it over the breastplate itself. A two-hour work all in all, and it did look pretty good.
As Mr. Holmes used to say - All problems become simple once explained.
To illustrate the concept, here is a closer look to the Breastplate, which was the first picture I took from this costume
And a look of Walkiria with the breastplate and the underbust corset I`ve made for this build -
By the way, she´s brown-eyed, I just toyed with Photoshop for about 5 minutes to get this blue-eyed look. Quite natural, if you ask me, but then again, I`m biased.
SO, first of all, I would like to thank you very much for all of the love you´ve been giving me regarding this build, it was a labor of love here, and getting some of it back has been, to say the least, overwhelming. As much as I could thank you guys, it´s not even close to the warmth you make me feel.
Again, thank you all.
Now, regarding the breastplate, which seems to be the most asked about part, (which is odd, for there are other parts that were more tricky, but oh, well
) I didn´t take any WIP pictures. Not because I didn´t WANT to, but because there was no TIME to. It was a build made in one sitting. What I did was to check out the design first. You can see that I elaborated on it, but more on that later, the first part was to de-construct it to the bare minimum - Wings, body, tail, and tackle them separately. Each of the three feathers of the wings were made first in a sheet of 1mm PVC, and then I glued over them some golden leather bands (which was a waste, due to the next step). I thought that gold would be a good color there, but the thing is - I decided later to line it (just like you´d cover a notebook with plastic, let´s say) with a metallized synthetic leather.
This sort of vinyl is thicker than the usual variety, and it does have a bit of an one-way stretch, and therefore I lined the feather of the wing like this : Tip<--->tip and covered it with the stretchy material going like this : Stretchy<=====>stretchy. The reason being that the wing would bend, and therefore it would be good if it bent in the proper manner. A good side-effect to that is that the strips of golden leather that were inside proved to be somewhat of a resistance, and therefore once I bent it, they formed grooves in the material, which was, to me, the coronation of the design.
As for the body, four sheets of PVC, which you can see where the seams are, and some more golden material folded in triangles to disguise the union and to enhance the look. Tails? a big square of that material folded like a woman´s fan, and some EVA strips under the folds. Not a big thing. All of it over the breastplate itself. A two-hour work all in all, and it did look pretty good.
As Mr. Holmes used to say - All problems become simple once explained.
To illustrate the concept, here is a closer look to the Breastplate, which was the first picture I took from this costume
And a look of Walkiria with the breastplate and the underbust corset I`ve made for this build -
By the way, she´s brown-eyed, I just toyed with Photoshop for about 5 minutes to get this blue-eyed look. Quite natural, if you ask me, but then again, I`m biased.
