Thor Build: Age of Ultron

Dwayne42

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Hi everyone, this is my first time posting to therpf and I’m looking forward to participating in the community!

This is the beginning of my Thor build from Age of Ultron. I’m sure I’m not the first person that’s tackled it but so far I haven’t found any others so I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m hoping to wear the finished product to a comic con nearby in March and then the movie premiere in May so this is gonna be a pretty slow build but hopefully worth it in the end.

My intent for the design is to get as accurate a replica of the AoU costume as I can, with some minor exceptions where I may use details from the other films (e.g. rondels from the Dark World). My armor is a standard EVA foam base for the chest plate, greaves, and gauntlets. I just began working on the chest plate so here’s an image of what I have so far, with some of the detail work that will be attached later:

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Just like every other person who’s done a Thor build, I spent a good deal of time thinking about the hardest piece of the costume: the scale sleeves. After looking at all the different options (foam scales, pre-quilted fabric, latex, etc.), I decided I wanted to try something a little unorthodox and went with duct tape. This thought never would have occurred to me had I not found this instructable (http://www.instructables.com/id/Removable-Dragon-Skin-Bottle-Cozy-from-Duck-Tape/) so I want to give credit to clintonmc for the idea. I have the right arm pretty much done and it’s going really well so far, although I have had to work around the flexibility issue.

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Again, I’m gonna be working on this over the next few months but in the meantime I’d love to hear what you all think. Feel free to sound off with any questions or recommendations!

Thanks!
 
Thanks man!

Here's a progress pic from the breast plate.
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I do have a question for anyone out there that's ever worked with duct tape. I know it's not the most common material to work with for these sorts of pieces but does anyone have a good method for retaining flexibility without the structure falling apart? My scale sleeves are wearing down pretty quickly unfortunately because of movement.
 
Those sleeves look amazing! As far as durability goes you might have to just bite the bullet and have one section for the upper arm and another below the elbow. The breastplate is coming along nicely as well.
 
I dont know if this will work for you but everytime I wanted to keep the duct tape flexible I would use my hair dryer at the highest level and keep moving it while I was blowing it. Hope its useful for you too.
 
Aweome looking build man! That is some pretty tight detail on the chestpiece, those sleeves look pretty damn good too but yeah, flexibility can be a pain. On the Thor builds ive done i usually end up doing two kinds of scales, using the more flexible scales on the inside of the elbow and the armpit, so maybe doing scales there half as thick or something. Im also working on an Avengers 2 Thor, also coincidentally for a con in march (planet comicon in KC) Let me know if you need any more reference or anything.
 
Wow This is awesome! Looking good so far! I too want to do AOU Thor for SDCC in July. Havent started yet but its great seeing your progress.
 
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