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Inspired by the awesome armors made by FuzzyDrawings, Teranmx, and Matt Dash. I decided to make my own version of this armor in hopes of doing a S4 Jaime Lannister eventually.
...Of course the deadline I chose to show off this con was rather inconvenient as I had chosen Comikaze 2014 to debut the armor.
...Which was a week away. Somehow though lots of stress and sleepless nights I managed to make great strides in completing big chunks of the build in time for the con.
Here is my current progress on the build:
The materials used have been as follows:
Worbla/EVA foam for armor pieces
Wood/Apoxie Sculpt for the sword
Styrene for the scales
Vinyl leather for the belt, straps, and scabbard
I started working on the coat and pants a few months earlier when I was still kicking around the armor idea. Credit for the coat goes to my lovely and most talented girlfriend who help make the coat using a very heavily modified Mccall's 4745 pattern. That resulted in this:
The sword was also pretty straightforward to build: Wood, Apoxie Sculpt and a bit of worbla:
The armor was not quite so easy, PLEASE DON'T make the mistake of trying to hand form worbla without foam or some sort of base to mold it against else you end up with lump and bumpy worbla that is a pain to fix. Fortunately my one mistake was on the breast plate which conveniently became the back plate as it is concealed by that white cloak.
EVA foam and worbla are really the perfect match for each other. I do apologize there are photo gaps where I was too stressed/frantic/focused to stop and take progress photos.
Note the above piece was the crappy lumpy plate that got repurposed into a backplate.
To get rid of the "orange peel" texture worbla is known to have I added 4 layers of fast drying wood glue to smooth it out--this worked wonderfully. The scroll work you see pictured was first drawn onto a template and then painstakingly cut out of a thin 1/8" EVA foam sheet and then attached with contact cement.
I added 4 layers of paint : 2 different shades of gold leaf, 1 thin coat of metallic silver paint, and a black acrylic wash to get the dirty weathered look.
The styrene scales were cut and then stapled to a scrap cloth--this was a surprisingly easy and painless way to assemble hundreds of scales.
My next steps are to finish the scrollwork for the pauldrons, add the plates that cover the top of the scales, make a golden hand, and maybe if I am motivated enough build a helmet.
Feel free to ask any questions that strike your fancy, I'll be updating soon with more progress.
...Of course the deadline I chose to show off this con was rather inconvenient as I had chosen Comikaze 2014 to debut the armor.
...Which was a week away. Somehow though lots of stress and sleepless nights I managed to make great strides in completing big chunks of the build in time for the con.
Here is my current progress on the build:
The materials used have been as follows:
Worbla/EVA foam for armor pieces
Wood/Apoxie Sculpt for the sword
Styrene for the scales
Vinyl leather for the belt, straps, and scabbard
I started working on the coat and pants a few months earlier when I was still kicking around the armor idea. Credit for the coat goes to my lovely and most talented girlfriend who help make the coat using a very heavily modified Mccall's 4745 pattern. That resulted in this:
The sword was also pretty straightforward to build: Wood, Apoxie Sculpt and a bit of worbla:
The armor was not quite so easy, PLEASE DON'T make the mistake of trying to hand form worbla without foam or some sort of base to mold it against else you end up with lump and bumpy worbla that is a pain to fix. Fortunately my one mistake was on the breast plate which conveniently became the back plate as it is concealed by that white cloak.
EVA foam and worbla are really the perfect match for each other. I do apologize there are photo gaps where I was too stressed/frantic/focused to stop and take progress photos.
Note the above piece was the crappy lumpy plate that got repurposed into a backplate.
To get rid of the "orange peel" texture worbla is known to have I added 4 layers of fast drying wood glue to smooth it out--this worked wonderfully. The scroll work you see pictured was first drawn onto a template and then painstakingly cut out of a thin 1/8" EVA foam sheet and then attached with contact cement.
I added 4 layers of paint : 2 different shades of gold leaf, 1 thin coat of metallic silver paint, and a black acrylic wash to get the dirty weathered look.
The styrene scales were cut and then stapled to a scrap cloth--this was a surprisingly easy and painless way to assemble hundreds of scales.
My next steps are to finish the scrollwork for the pauldrons, add the plates that cover the top of the scales, make a golden hand, and maybe if I am motivated enough build a helmet.
Feel free to ask any questions that strike your fancy, I'll be updating soon with more progress.
