Yo, yo, yo! Whats up?
I managed to make some progress on the Street cop costume, so here are some pictures!
Firstly, I cracked the vac-form problem I had before. It turned out I had been using the wrong kind of plastic. I couldn't heat it to a point that was good for forming because it would melt. It just wasn't the kind you could use for that particular job. So I found some small store that was of course hidden from the eyes of public, and I bought some proper plastic sheets. It worked flawlessly.
I did pierce each hole on the clay mold as you guys suggested so the air would go through, and I used vacuum cleaner to create suction.
Here are the pulls that I made. The plastic came in different colors, but later I spray painted them all black anyway.
Since they are hollow I wanted to give them some rigidness, so I filled them with expanding foam. Somehow it looks edible, right? :lol
And here's the famous cod piece, it barely fit in my small vac-former!
And now all that is left is EXTREMELY slow and boring task of hand-sewing them to the vest. It's soooo boring..
Ok, apart from that I continued to cast all the badges that I am going to need. Since many casts have some imperfections I just remelt them and pour them again, so I'm used to the sight of melting Bladerunner badges, but I guess to other people it might be a first... :lol
Oh, yeah, I finally made those two.. number.. pins? Whatever they are. I hand cut the numbers from adhesive foil, and used them as a stencil to spray over them. You can see I bought hair buckle and glued it in the back.
And here are all badges I made. The cop is going to wear a raincoat, so I needed to make two sets of each badge. One for the vest, the other for raincoat. Also, I'm going to put police badge on the shoulder of the raincoat, and one of them goes on the helmet.
This weekend we'll probably finish sawing the costume, so expect some pictures next week!
Thanks for looking!
Bye!!!