Metal Movie Cap Shield on a budget **DONE!! FINAL PICS ON PAGE 4

[EyeofSauron]

i got a quick question. im just wondering about the paint job and the groves. i couldnt find a close enough pic, so i have to ask. #

which color did you paint the groves

the inner round one red or blue the second and third one red or clear?
im only doing a pep version of the shield as the sled is not available here, but i still have the groves, im just not sure about paint
Cheers
EoS

 

[Valor]

No grooves on the sled. Couldn't figure out a way to make them. Although my shield is groovy. Here's what I see when I look at this hires image from their campaign:

Think of each groove having two sides, like two sides of a valley. Each "slope" of the groove will be the color of the adjacent ring. Get it? So proceeding from the edge of the shield, it would go like this:

RED RING
red slope
clear slope
CLEAR RING
clear slope
red slope
RED RING
red slope
blue slope
BLUE CIRCLE

hope this helps.

 

[EyeofSauron]

argh ok thx tho

 

[bbielecki]

That job is ... what can I say ... incredible.
I'm disapointed as I never saw these kind of metalic sled in europe ... :-(
That is absolutely perfect.

 

[bbielecki]

Amazon is asking me 184$ to ship me that 30$ sled to France ... :-(

 

[EyeofSauron]

Amazon is asking me 184$ to ship me that 30$ sled to France ... :-(

that is indeed true

this sled is not available in europe, and would be shipped out of the us.
its not worth it.
for the money, you get a turned aluminium one directly in france. i couldnt afford it, so i made mine pepakura

so far, im not even at 30 bucks, so its cheap (minus the work) and now all it needs is a good paint job

thx for the paint advice with the slopes, but im not sure if i can do that xD i am not sure how to mask the slopes, to get only half painted ;/

 

[bbielecki]

Amazon offer only the fast shipping method. This explain the price.
If somebody can send it to me using an economic way, I can be really interested

 

[German]

How do you tape off the rings and get such great looking circles? That seems like the hardest part of getting a shield painted properly.

 

[TheCap]

How do you tape off the rings and get such great looking circles? That seems like the hardest part of getting a shield painted properly.

one way, you could do is make an old fashioned compass, take 2 pencils and some string, measure your string out, tie it to one pencil, and then to the other, and then circle the shield with one, while holding the other one in the middle. could use a tack or tape or something instead of a pencil for the middle.

 

[EyeofSauron]

the way i marked my cuts in the shield was taking a big sheet of paper, enough to cover the whole shield, and then draw the according circles on that. then i cut those out, stuck them onto the shield, marked the lines where the paint should go directly on the shield with sharpie, took the paper off again, and voila-you got markings for masking

 

[German]

Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific: I am getting a shield with grooves already cut in it, so the circles are already marked out for me. But thinking about how to mask them off for paint is throwing me for a loop.

 

[TheCap]

Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific: I am getting a shield with grooves already cut in it, so the circles are already marked out for me. But thinking about how to mask them off for paint is throwing me for a loop.

oh easy then, just mask the whole shield, and use a straight blade to cut the masking where the grooves are.

 

[German]

oh easy then, just mask the whole shield, and use a straight blade to cut the masking where the grooves are.

Wow, of course! Thanks. Painting has always been a bit intimidating to me so I miss the obvious some times.

 

[Deacon]

Just remember, if you screw up, you can still strip it and start over, Ive done it twice.

 

[Monk]

That is fantastic! I totally see a second shield in my future, this time, the round one.

Off to the hardware store!

 

[yt]

I've got mine cut down and the paint stripped, man was getting that paint off rough! The metal looks very dirty and not at all uniform. I have tried cleaning it with mineral spirits and buffing with a buffing wheel with no luck. Did you guys do something different before starting your spinning effect or was the spinning enough to make it shiny and uniform?

 

[Valor]

Mine was a bit dark and uneven after stripping, but came to life after I did the spinning with the buffing pad.

 

[sixstringgod]

Thats the best Cap shield I have ever seen! Thanks for sharing and all the tips you have included.

 

[CommanderNiyic]

I used .025" aluminum for the braces/brackets on my shield, after some use though, the smaller brackets are bending. How thick was the aluminum you used, it appears to be much thicker than .025"? Thanks
Great work by the way!

 

[Kevin Gossett]

What is the best way to strip the paint off the sled? Ordered mine today, and also started on my star