Starship troopers Foam MI Armor

[Rikarus]

After reading tons of threads by you all, I have become inspired, and I thought a foam SST Armor might save me from getting drunk and messing up my screen used.


So with Blue Wal Mart foam on the board, and exacto knife in fist, I partied down with a sharpie and glue gun.

I had a blast, and I see some improvements but I am totally psyched that I can do some of this, you all have such an awesome set of skills am I am quite honestly....a clutz! lol


So anyway

here's a couple shots, now to find some gray/green tinted rubber coating or latex.

 

[Solochaser]

YESSS! I always wanted a set of armor from that movie. Great Idea. can you post the measurements of your set? I wanna try making some as well.

 

[Rikarus]

YESSS! I always wanted a set of armor from that movie. Great Idea. can you post the measurements of your set? I wanna try making some as well.

I will have to try and write something up, I did it on the fly with a tailors tape, and a real set sitting there as an example. I am hanging with my girl, but sometime this week I will lay the foam set out, and show the dimensions I used for you.

 

[Solochaser]

any updates bud?

 

[Rikarus]

have some trouble working up the drawings, I'll jsut take some pics for you today and put some text measurements in, was try to 3d draw them but have to learn on the fly.

 

[Rikarus]

have some trouble working up the drawings, I'll jsut take some pics for you today and put some text measurements in, was try to 3d draw them but have to learn on the fly.

OK heresthe chest, its a 2.8 meg file if it doesnt come through clear pm and I'll email. v/r

 

[Rikarus]

Back PLate, there was some curve in the foam on the pics so I used orange transparent so you get the idea of the shapes then did measurements in red black and yellow, once you cut out main piece the geometry works out pretty good with a big ruler and a sharpie.

 

[Rikarus]

Shouders front, trying different things for clarity

 

[Rikarus]

annnd shoulders back

 

[MooCriket]

This is looking very promising

 

[Art Andrews]

This is a SUPER cool recreation! Very clever and very nicely done!

 

[obi1kenny]

Nice work. The funny thing is that this has been done before in foam by one of the FX studios in LA but they rejected the foam and opted to stick with the rubber. Learned that on a prop house tour a few years back by actually handling the foam armor.

 

[Rikarus]

Nice work. The funny thing is that this has been done before in foam by one of the FX studios in LA but they rejected the foam and opted to stick with the rubber. Learned that on a prop house tour a few years back by actually handling the foam armor.

Thanks all.


I am working on a solution right now to smooth it out, and apply plasti-dip spray on to get that rubbery feel, then color match up to the green/gray....more to follow on that. and now that I have the basic numbers, when I can teach myself how to do a "snap grid" drawing in photo shop, or something cheap and cad-ish I will do a real file.

 

[CustomPropSculptorGuy]

wwwooooww... Awesome work,

 

[LDR]

Great stuff!

The foot looks so realistic to!

 

[Rikarus]

Great stuff!

The foot looks so realistic to!

you mean the "foam squisher downer" lol

 

[Rikarus]

OK,Iwasn't having any success smoothing down the blue stuff, and so I present, using harbor frieght flloormats, rev 2.0. Scale is a tad larger as I am compensating for me.

Much better and has a smooth side, and little more difficult to cut and I am gonna have to look into a hot knife.

 

[TrooperPX]

That's looking great! And cool to see how you're evolving with your materials. :cool Gonna be following this one to see where it leads. Years ago I thought about making a beater set from fabric, heavy duck, because that's what I was most comfortable with at the time. Might have another go at it in the summer slowdown.

 

[Rikarus]

That's looking great! And cool to see how you're evolving with your materials. :cool Gonna be following this one to see where it leads. Years ago I thought about making a beater set from fabric, heavy duck, because that's what I was most comfortable with at the time. Might have another go at it in the summer slowdown.

Thanks TPX, love your site, many hours of picture studying there!

I would love to make a wood master set, and then cast it and do it right, but for now that is beyond my skill level.......for now. :lol

 

[TrooperPX]

Thanks TPX, love your site, many hours of picture studying there!

Thanks! Sadly, real-life work has prevented me from adding any new content to the site in, well, eight years? Then my home was flooded last month in the East Coast storm. I'd pulled alot of gak out of the basement as a precaution. :confused Including my SST collection! But that has given me the opportunity to sort and consolidate it all as I put it away. Now I know what I have, etc. and I'm determined this summer to re-photograph everything! :lol By the power of Grayskull, it will happen! When the site was first launched I had to take real pictures, then scan them in... no digital cameras back then. Now I have a 7mb camera so the pics will look better than ever. :cool It's fans and visitors like you that keep the site going.

I would love to make a wood master set, and then cast it and do it right, but for now that is beyond my skill level.......for now.

I'm sure if a few of us got together we could come up with something almost anyone could do.