Winter Solder Costume W.I.P.

[Ballzy247]

It's time for my second costume on the RPF.

So, I have 5 days left till *Captain America - The Winter Soldier* comes to the cinams in Australia . . . Lets see if I can make a robot arm

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Here's some rough templates I made if you would like to have a crack at the hands. They have been designed to be used with a spandex glove and 2mm thick craft foam.






Tags: ------> Progress, W.I.P, Marvel, Winter Soldier, Costume, Robot Arm, Captain America, Cosplay, Commic books.

 

[Ballzy247]

OK people, so there is now 2 day and a night left to finish my *Captain America - The Winter Soldier* robot arm. I have Now completed the upper half of the arm and can now preparing the arm for a nice lick of paint.

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Tags: ------> Progress 2, W.I.P, Marvel, Winter Soldier, Costume, Robot Arm, Captain America, Cosplay, Commic books.

 

[Ballzy247]

1 day to go before . . . *Captain America - The Winter Soldier* . . . and I'm posting progress pictures as I wait for the paint to dry.

I'm up to 2 coats of paint so far, one coat of Machinery Grey matte Spray paint; and one coat of Silver Spray Paint so for. When thats dry I will paint on the Iconic Red and Black outlined star on the sholder and add in detail to the hand with a marker pen this evening. Then in the morning I will spray the arm with a final clear gloss coat to seal everything up.

Ok Picture Time.

 

[Ballzy247]

This is a bit of a teaser to the video I'm going to post ither later this evening or early tomorrow. TRhis Photo was taken just before i went to the movies to see Captain America - The Winter Soldier yesterday. to those people who thought "omg he's going to for get to make the sholder!", you would nearly be right! But I didn't so yeh.

The Arm stayed together untill i steped off the bus to walk home in the evening and walked right into a low hanging branch, which pulled solder nearly clean off. So when the Strongbonds Adhesives Polyurethane Glue ----> StrongBonds Polyurethane Glue 50gm <--- is dry (totaly no product placement here at all . . . nope), I can then put the costume back on and film the Udate video you dam guy! =P

Also wile I'm at it, I'll Through in some raw, only slightly edited photos of a Robin Hood Costume i created for a Medievil Fayer I went to nearly 2 weeks ago.


Winter Soldier Costume - Created By James Ball AKA Ballzy247


Right - My Mum, Middle - My arch nemesiss *Cough, Cough,* Sorry um I mean my little sister, Left - Me


I Not Sure When This Phoyo Was Taken!

 

[Ballzy247]

This is most probably going to be the last video I do on this *Captain America - The Winter Soldier* costume for a Little while. In any case, it has been fun; there has been pain, literal blood, sweet and tears, weired looks, hi-5's and a whole lot more.


Thank you to everyone who has encouraged me to press on through and get this costume done by the open day of the movie and to challenge the limits of my cosplay/costuming abilities.

 

[Lauralot]

I love your costume! Sorry if I missed it, but what sort of glue did you use for the craft foam?

 

[Ballzy247]

I love your costume! Sorry if I missed it, but what sort of glue did you use for the craft foam?

Hi Lauralot. Thank You for the support!

For most of the arm I stuck down the craft foam segments strait to the sleeve with hotglue. The shoulder section and attaching body straps however were stuck down with Strongbonds Adhesives Polyurethane Glue ----> StrongBonds Polyurethane Glue 50gm <---- Wich I ended up bying from here.

I used hotglue to stick these pieces down when I made the shoulder on the thursday and the body straps broke off mid way through the movie and the only thing keeping the arm kinda in place was the jacket. Also i steped off the bus to walk home in the evening and walked right into a low hanging branch, which pulled the solder nearly clean off as I mentiond in an above post. That's the main reason I didn't have an update vid out on thursday night because I was still ironing out the tweeks so to speak. So I got up early the next day, and reglued those areas with the strong bond stuff which takes about 4 hours set, then about another 20 hours to cure.

But you know how that random quote goes "Nothing's Done Till It's Done!" and I can still improve this costume. But for the time being, I'm kinda Winter Soldiered out and need to go back into criostasice for a little while.

 

[Ballzy247]

Hi there. An update on that Winter Soldier costume. Enjoy the face mask people!

 

[Lauralot]

Love the mask!

Your Winter Soldier arm's inspired me to try a build of my own; I didn't think there was any way I could pull off the arm until I saw it done in craft foam. Can I ask how tight the sleeve was to your arm? Was it at all difficult to get your hand/arm through it once the foam was glued on?

 

[Ballzy247]

Love the mask!

Your Winter Soldier arm's inspired me to try a build of my own; I didn't think there was any way I could pull off the arm until I saw it done in craft foam. Can I ask how tight the sleeve was to your arm? Was it at all difficult to get your hand/arm through it once the foam was glued on?

Thank you so much Lauralot! XD

The under sleve was orriginialy the left sleve off of a second hand black woolen cardigan that I cut away to use for this costume, (Destroying perfectly good, inicent clothes is fun don't you agree =P). The sleve was tight around my arm or it fit like a glove, which ever you prefer. I chose a wool sleeve because it's a comftable yet at the same time a flexible and quite thin material (great if your planing to wear the arm around for a long period of time), wool absorbse heat and is breathable which is great because each and every segment of craft foam that I stuck down to the arm with hot glue, I stuck down when the sleve was on my acual arm, so that ment less pain for me (Wooo Hooo!). But to the next question . . . How dificult is it to put on and off? It's a little bit of a tight fit, but it has to be to pull of the effect. It very simple to put on and because the wool has some stretch and the arm is segmented my hand slides right through this wrist hole at the end. To take it off I have to stretch the wrist over my hand a little but then my arm can pull right out.

I hope this Moby Dick length reply was ok for you Lauralot and if you need any thing else answered, just ask. =)

Your Heath ledger Joker costume looks spot on by the way. My costume still needs a little work ----> http://www.therpf.com/f24/my-heath-ledger-joker-costume-203911/

 

[Lauralot]

Thanks! That was seriously invaluable information there. I've been making an undersleeve for the arm out of spandex, so I think I'll be okay as far as stretch.

And I love your Joker scars! I'm still trying to get a working set (damn latex allergy).

 

[Ballzy247]

Thanks! That was seriously invaluable information there. I've been making an undersleeve for the arm out of spandex, so I think I'll be okay as far as stretch.

And I love your Joker scars! I'm still trying to get a working set (damn latex allergy).

Fake Scars . . . *o* . . . Who said they were fake. ;-P

I pull off my scars with a product called Rigid collodion, and Scar and nose wax.

 

[Ballzy247]

Free Comic Book Day was Great. I won a Poster and a $20 Gift Card.

 

[Ballzy247]

Some People were asking for reference pic



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[Jake Brown]

Hey Ballzy247! Wow, your work is phenomenal! I would like to try my hand (no pun intended) at making the Winter soldier Bionic arm but I can't seem to see the templates. Is it possible for you to re-upload them? Thanks man.

 

[Ballzy247]

Hey Ballzy247! Wow, your work is phenomenal! I would like to try my hand (no pun intended) at making the Winter soldier Bionic arm but I can't seem to see the templates. Is it possible for you to re-upload them? Thanks man.

Thanks for the awesome comment.

Here you go.

I only ever made a semi proper template for the hand the rest of it was scratch built.


View attachment robot hand plates.pdf

 

[kcail1]

Nice work! I also made mine out of craft foam over painters tape/duct tape/grocery bag cast of my arm. Did you have issues with paint flaking off the foam? I'm having that problem. I have tried sealing with Modge Podge and Elmers glue wash but still flaking.

I've researched Plastidip, but haven't tried it yet.

I'd like to know what your experience has been with paint on foam for peeling/cracking.

Peace,

Kcail1

 

[Ballzy247]

Nice work!

I'd like to know what your experience has been with paint on foam for peeling/cracking.

Thanks!

The nature of the material of foam is it bends and is flexible . . . especially when it's only 2mm thick. My arm lasted 2 conventions and an outing to the movies before it started showing signs of peeling/cracking or about 3 days of wear.

If I was to go back and redo this arm out of foam, I first would cut out each individual pieces. Paint them with with 2 layers of PVA Craft Glue, 1 layer of Plastic-Dip or Liquid Electrical Tape (What ever is available). Then do a layer of Matte Black spray paint, 1 layer of Metallic Silver spray paint and finally a layer of clear acrylic gloss spray paint to give it its final shine appearance.

Something I want to experiment with is to take some fine grit steel wool and buff over the gloss coat nice and slowly and apply another layer of gloss.

Hope this help's.

Ballzy247.

 

[kcail1]

Thanks for the information. My second arm has lasted two cons, one dress up at a Comic Shop and I'm going to try to ride it out till the fall (?). I cut out all my pieces individually as well, and glued them on my base (duct tape/plastic bag mold of my arm). You know... I DID coat the foam with 50/50 Elmer's glue (PVA) to seal the foam. It didn't work very well at all. I did three thin layers. It still flaked at all the stress points. (please feel free to see my picture albums for reference).

I've never used Plasti-dip before so I'm wondering if that is the key for a rebuild/refurbish. What has been your experience with that over craft foam?

Kcail1

 

[Ballzy247]

I've never used Plasti-dip before so I'm wondering if that is the key for a rebuild/refurbish. What has been your experience with that over craft foam?

You know that plastic coating that you get on the handle of a pair of pliers? well that is Plasti-dip. If you paint Plasti-dip strait onto the foam, it will soak into the air pockets of the foam, leave you with bubbly bumps on the surface and will easily peal away. So by using PVA glue as an under coat, this will soak up into the foam instead giving a smooth final appearance. The PVA Glue also helps to bond the Plasti-dip to the foam because of its water solubility, there for it will grab onto the Plasti-dip as it dries leaving you with a stronger bond to the foam.

I hope that helps.

Ballzy247.