Winter Soldier costume build (pic heavy) arm included by Nykko Lazar

[NykkoLazar]

Hey everyone, thanks for checking out my post. Here I am going to show my progress photos of my Bucky, Winter soldier costume. If you have any questions please feel free to reply or message me. I decided to make this costume to test my skills with making the arm.

I wanted to make the arm in all separated pieces, this is something no one else was really doing. Most if not all I had seen are made in two parts split at the elbow.

Well lets get started with the arm. first I hand drew a template based on as many reference photos from the film that I could get my hands on.
After cutting each piece I bent each one by hand to fit the shape of my arm.

 

[NykkoLazar]

more progress one piece at a time... sorry rpf keeps rotating my images to be sideways. Not sure how I fix that.

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The material used is Aluminum. Luckily my grandpa works at a shop where they make plates for military body armor. I'm not sure what the thickness is, but its not easy to bend. However once it is bent it keeps its shape very well.

 

[NykkoLazar]

here is a quick look at the finished product. will be posting more of the progress photos shortlyView attachment 585369

 

[Malibu139]

i cant see the finished arm. I love this idea. The arm looks great in the progress pics.

 

[NykkoLazar]

weird it was showing up fine when I posted.....I will post it here again

 

[NykkoLazar]

forearm progress. originally I had a smaller piece in between every big piece so no fabric would be showing but because of time I had to opt out of that for the rest of the arm.

 

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Now that you've got the idea of how I put the arm together lets move on to the jacket. Instead of starting from complete scratch I went to the nearest thrift store to see what I could fine. I ended up finding a plain womans leather jacket that would be perfect to alter. add chest straps, detach arm ect.

here is the jacket

 

[kickman88]

I am also doing separate pieces in aluminum....no pics yet but glad to see someone else trying this out! Looks good so far!

 

[NykkoLazar]

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thanks, I actually finished this a year ago. never got around to posting it here. good luck though I loved the finished product. always turns heads at a con.

 

[NykkoLazar]

here is the final product. had a friend take some photos with my camera and lights, I also did the editing.

 

[Malibu139]

Final pics are great. No worrying about what paint for the most shine..... How is the mobility?

 

[NykkoLazar]

lastly here is the strap harness for the gun on his back. unfortunately I didn't take any progress pics of the belt due to trying to get everything done on time.

the gun is attached with magnet clips that I bought at Michaels. This allows me to remove it with ease should I choose to.

 

[NykkoLazar]

I have pretty much full range of motion with the arm. cant reach to far above my head....mostly for fear of bending the pieces or ripping it apart from the glue.

 

[Taliesin]

Hi Nykko, this looks awesome! (also first post here after lurking for awhile) May I ask, how did you secure those pieces to the fabric underneath? I'm guessing hot glue?

 

[MrSouthpaw]

lastly here is the strap harness for the gun on his back. unfortunately I didn't take any progress pics of the belt due to trying to get everything done on time.
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the gun is attached with magnet clips that I bought at Michaels. This allows me to remove it with ease should I choose to.

The gun on his back is a Skorpion VZ61. Replicas should be easy to source.

Nice arm, btw.

 

[ChiCubsGordon24]

Good job man, glad I was able to see it in person.