Venom Snake's arm MGS V: Phantom Pain

[Ragedancer]

Hey, I plan on going to DragonCon this fall as Venom Snake and Naked Snake, using almost the same costume. My big problem here is I want to make Venom's bionic arm. I plan to use sintra primarily. Thoughts, comments and suggestions would be lovely. I have only work on making wooden swords and shields, but I want to scale down to small almost model making work.

 

[Sovereign Props]

If you haven't worked with sintra(which requires heat forming) before I would personally recommend EVA foam for the arm instead. Easier and more forgiving material to work with that while it also requires heat to form, is definitely less finicky. That's my recommendation anyway.

 

[Delta13]

Hey, I plan on going to DragonCon this fall as Venom Snake and Naked Snake, using almost the same costume. My big problem here is I want to make Venom's bionic arm. I plan to use sintra primarily. Thoughts, comments and suggestions would be lovely. I have only work on making wooden swords and shields, but I want to scale down to small almost model making work.

I sing up under it. I love to work with sintra but when it comes to more ogranic shapes it is hard to form it. EVA is esyer to work that is true but I don't like it too much. I would go with paper model to fit your hand at first and then reinforce it with resin and fiberglass. Smaller elemnts like details of fingers shood be fine when made out of sintra.