Teknoman Replica Suit.

[TonySingh]

Suit : Teknoman Armor Suit.
Build : Cardboard and Foam.
Freehand made.
This is always been one of my dream armors. Its just of those armors I felt i had to do. And so here i am doing it.

It begins with Toy Figurines online. Though ive had some help working out parts and placements thanks to some of the other fellow Teknoman/Tekkman fans Ive met along the way


Starting things off with a Blank helment base. Not sure who the orginal maker was..but I hope that to the person who made this template possible Im very greatful.


From my own interpetation, the side fins of the helmet. mind Ive found about 2-3 variations. And im only going with what im comfortable and capable off


Comparing sketches and blanks traces, i worked out the where , what and whys of the face armor.


After a while I go what i was looking for


Because I used a really thin foam. I planned adhead. Some of the curves are hard to template. So i traced out the general lines, then stripped them off to get the templates i would need to make them


make look a bit messy but this is one of the few ways i could think off for making them accurate without worrying to much


Here u can see the results.


Added the brow armor , its about layers of 2mm foam.


the chin guard.


And here it its coming together.


Using my dremel, i cut away the eye slot


I used some paper templates for the back shield. I didnt relised it was akin to the Japanese helemt armor. Actually...there arent many shots of the back of the helmet out there. So to my friend Zac. who got me shots of it.


Using paper templates for the side fins. Honestly i think i made them just a bit smaller than they should be...but. ill work it this way for now.


And heres the first side fin guard in place. I worked out to the best i could and not to over do on making it flashy, but as simple as possible. More updates coming soon.

 

[sceno]

I love to find someone else out there loves the Tekkaman Blade series. Keep up the great work i cant wait to see it when it is finished.

 

[TonySingh]

I wasn't able to save many images to the making of the chest. So ill do my best to explain it.
Youll see strip in a lower part of it, looking like blinders. I had pivoted the general distance and ran strip, after strip. working it up along till it cover a section. Then once i had the rough draft. I traced it over a solid pieace and used that for my final templates. To be honest. This is one of those free style pieces I dont think ill ever be able to replicate, unless i rip apart everything to get it all back.....



Here it is all junky and bearly held together....I wasted my time and material when i realised i should have made more definite pieaces. But The scale was enough to make me take a sigh of relief.


Here I further worked at it. to get it right. This time using entire sheets to cover the surface, as the cut line would spoil the finished look.


And finally...at long last and god know how many tries.....

 

[TonySingh]

Ok so some updates

I pretty much got the helmet done, Using some green tint id add later for the eyes and gem on top still debating if i should make it light up


Using Chip (fiber) board sheets, made the back piece template.


Covered over in foam, with some detail work.


Using some geometry to make the thrusters on the back. Took a few tried to get the template and scale right. I kept it as simple as possible to build it with speed in mind


Repeated the same process using 2mm foam to cover over


Rather than just sticking it in. I cut the back where it would be positioned. Later on i might add lighting affects. But i was worred just glueing it on will risk it popping out on me later on.


heres the back more or less done


heresa brief layout. Done off pics were the arms though.Was too busy and forgot to keep any records xp


Heres some work on the front cod pieace. I saw a few, some had it rounded more, but its a little difficult atm for me to pull it off. But a square version from a Figma Toy series model i followed


Got the shape, i decided i will just add it to the lower torso of the front chest to make suiting up alot easier for me


The Tail..or sometimes used as Tekka Sheild done as well.But it will be permantly attached and serve as the rear guard tail of the back pieace


IT looks like a hot mess, but the shoulder were and still is the biggest pain in the neck but i did manage to get some proper templates going


nothing like an assembly line


I didnt realise it was so fuzzy. sorry...the brown stuff is some filler to take out the gaps


The shoulder Hump..or upper mounting braces. I preferred doing them in one shot pieces. Alot of waste but easier to assemble


The shoulder shield took like go know how many tries the frist time. So i was happy this time around i had a nice working template to work.


So thats all for now, will have more updates in the coming days.

 

[TonySingh]

So heres the Progress to the Shoulders armor
After scaling to the size i wanted did some master templates


As the material im using is light but a little flimsy, i made the templates for in inner layers where ill be adding lights etc.


Covered in foam


For the shoulder mounting too some time to get it right but i decided to make them like these. I will be cutting and trimming them to fit into a Pvc mounting


Attaching them togther. I had tape all around to keep the alignment in place


Heres a look at the lower part


Heres an open view of the shoulder




So i had to wiggle and do guess work into how to make a braket for the hinge of the shoulder. Im sure there some really pro ways xp but i lack the material to make anything look good. So as long as it did its job im happy


In the end the alingment is just midly off, but not so noticable that is bad all together. But it is light and strudy and it functions as it should.


Here is one of two fully open hinged


Reverse view.


Well got to make the second one now and mod for a shoulder pvc mouting ;/ gunna take a few days to make right