sw63
Active Member
Hi guys and girls,
Used Worbla for the first time today and thought I'd share this with you....
I'm currently doing a Big Daddy costume from Kick Ass for Sci Fi Scarborough 2017. My daughter's going as Hit girl - so it made sense.
Massive thanks to Big Daddy on this forum for his fabulous posts about his build - they've been my bible & taught me so much.
The shoulder armour has been giving me nightmares. I wanted mine to be as screen accurate as possible and this was my first attempt with a Rubber Maid trash bin...
This is how it's supposed to look...
You just can't get the bend on Rubber Maid - especially as it needs to be in two directions.
So, I decided to try Worbla thermoplastic.
My first attempt was a disaster, but here was my second...
I'm using a crappy old Viking helmet as a mold - it was all I could find that had the right sort of curve on it.
I'm using double thickness of Worbla (each layer is about 1mm) for strength. A single layer seems quite flimsy and all the YouTube tutorials seemed to suggest double thickness.
In my first (disastrous) attempt I tried to do the whole shoulder piece in one. For my second attempt I decided to do it in three sections and melt them together. Here's the cardboard templates I used...
It's dead easy to mold Worbla together with just a heat gun.
Here are the three sections (double thickness) cut and shaped...
I just used two strips of Worbla (1 inch wide) to stick them together...
Just heat them until they are really floppy and sticky,
It doesn't look too pretty on the underside, but hey...
Here's the three sections together whilst cooling and then off the mold...
All four done (some have a bit of Miliput to full any gaps on the joins)...
And here's what they look like when paired together..
And on the shoulder..
It looks like I've got really narrow shoulders in these photos - I don't! I've actually got very broad shoulders.
Did all this in one day. Tomorrow I'll sand them and give them a coat of PVA before spay painting them with matt black.
I think they look really cool.
Just to finish for tonight, here's a comparison of Worbla with Rubber Maid...
I'll post some more pics to this thread in the coming days.
Cheers guys!
Used Worbla for the first time today and thought I'd share this with you....
I'm currently doing a Big Daddy costume from Kick Ass for Sci Fi Scarborough 2017. My daughter's going as Hit girl - so it made sense.
Massive thanks to Big Daddy on this forum for his fabulous posts about his build - they've been my bible & taught me so much.
The shoulder armour has been giving me nightmares. I wanted mine to be as screen accurate as possible and this was my first attempt with a Rubber Maid trash bin...
This is how it's supposed to look...
You just can't get the bend on Rubber Maid - especially as it needs to be in two directions.
So, I decided to try Worbla thermoplastic.
My first attempt was a disaster, but here was my second...
I'm using a crappy old Viking helmet as a mold - it was all I could find that had the right sort of curve on it.
I'm using double thickness of Worbla (each layer is about 1mm) for strength. A single layer seems quite flimsy and all the YouTube tutorials seemed to suggest double thickness.
In my first (disastrous) attempt I tried to do the whole shoulder piece in one. For my second attempt I decided to do it in three sections and melt them together. Here's the cardboard templates I used...
It's dead easy to mold Worbla together with just a heat gun.
Here are the three sections (double thickness) cut and shaped...
I just used two strips of Worbla (1 inch wide) to stick them together...
Just heat them until they are really floppy and sticky,
It doesn't look too pretty on the underside, but hey...
Here's the three sections together whilst cooling and then off the mold...
All four done (some have a bit of Miliput to full any gaps on the joins)...
And here's what they look like when paired together..
And on the shoulder..
It looks like I've got really narrow shoulders in these photos - I don't! I've actually got very broad shoulders.
Did all this in one day. Tomorrow I'll sand them and give them a coat of PVA before spay painting them with matt black.
I think they look really cool.
Just to finish for tonight, here's a comparison of Worbla with Rubber Maid...
I'll post some more pics to this thread in the coming days.
Cheers guys!