With Iron Man and now The Dark Knight, I'm feeling a bigger and bigger need to create armor style suits. I'm curious how some of you would go about this. Ready? Set? Now.....GO!
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With Iron Man and now The Dark Knight, I'm feeling a bigger and bigger need to create armor style suits. I'm curious how some of you would go about this. Ready? Set? Now.....GO!
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ― Charles Bukowski
Buy some cheap plastic plates and cups - cut them into flat pieces - soften them up in hot water, then immediately shape them against a mego body or a block of wood
shaped like the armor you want.
It's the poor man's vacu-forming.
There's an excellent tutorial online somewhere. I'll try to find you the link.
Originally Posted by drmego
Wow....that's really COOL! I've never heard of that!
Stuck in a laundry shoot.
I have been playing with various armor ideas, and picked up some CTVT knights to kitbash. Perhaps you could blend the moldable plastic ideas with some existing armor and get what you're after.
Problems - limited mobility, and the armor isn't really any different from lancelot, just painted a different color. Still a good place to start.
I have also shown this one recently but is more modified than my Gold Knight.
It is my Medieval Boba Fett.
Maybe these will help give you some ideas.
"Steel-like jaws clacked away, each bite slashing flesh from my body - I used my knife and my hands, and when they were gone, my bloody stumps - and yet the turtles came."
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A wine jug for Tony Stark's crest? Man that is seriously funny. I dig that medieval Fett more and more every time I see him, too.
Getting some ideas I never would have thought of, though. Please keep 'em coming.
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ― Charles Bukowski
Jerks beef with Ten Bears
How about using craft foam? I'm thinking of using some thin sheets of red craft foam for a possible Iron Man custom down the line, glued to a yellow bodysuit.
ETA: This custom gave me the idea. Check out those boots! All craft foam!
Stuck in a laundry shoot.
Yeah the wine jug was totally intentional.Even though it isn't really supposed to be iron man, just a modified knight varient.
"Steel-like jaws clacked away, each bite slashing flesh from my body - I used my knife and my hands, and when they were gone, my bloody stumps - and yet the turtles came."
Fear the monkeybat!
Hmmmm....
Vacumn-forming is probably the BEST way to do it. Tragicly, I don't have a fomer, and lack the neccessary skills. (A friend of mine from years back used to vaccumn-form Warhammer 40K vehicles. He'd swipe the ads from the inside of the city bus for plastic!)
Craft foam works well. I strated using it after seeing Boss' KISS customs. It works good for heavy kevlar, and well worn armours; since it has a matt look to it.
I've thought about using slush molds, but haven't worked up the nerve to try it yet.
Don C.
Museum Trouble Maker
Rob (Spyweb007) uses craft foam for all sorts of stuff and gets great results. He did Vader and the stormtrooper armor as well as the TMNT figures I posted a few months ago using foam for the shells and they all looked great. You could also use a sculpey rolled thin and molded around a frame to make armor. It would be delicate but fairly inexpensive. Once you complete it it could be cast in resin which would solve that issue.
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