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Post by Curufea on Mar 17, 2014 0:53:21 GMT
Mostly just a placeholder post until I get it up and running. This is a project inspired by recent combat LARPing for The Hundred Swords and combines my Faction Paradox, re-enactment and Alien fandoms - the last mainly because there are no good bone armour designs out there, nothing as good as the Alien (I'm not that keen on the "official" illustration of FP armour in the Book of the War) This will be made from EVA closed cell foam, shaped with a heat gun, carved, coated with plasti-dip and painted. I've a retro motorbike helmet currently being shipped to cover that part  There's lots of good tutorial videos on youtube for making foam cosplay armour (so check it out yourself, if you want to do any Doctor Who monster) Anyhow, I'll post progress pictures here as I go. I expect it will take months (so don't hold your breath) |
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Post by Curufea on Mar 17, 2014 22:06:55 GMT
Ideas for FP armour - The general cosplay posts folk have made about using latex pieces mounted on an undersuit for xenomorphs had me worried. A) the undersuit is stretchy and must be on a manequin when the latex is fitted and B) I'm using foam and not latex - foam isn't stretchy. Plus the undersuit has no textures and has bits added as needed all over. I think it would be quite labour-saving to use a base corduroy material to do much of the ribbing needed for joints. I've some old trousers I can cut up and paint (just need some fabric paint). Sadly I can't just use a jacket - because corduroy sleeves have vertical ribbing, and I need horizontal. Also - my Pinterest board of references and ideas |
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Post by Curufea on Mar 20, 2014 21:29:05 GMT
 New idea - I've a concrete skull sitting around doing nothing - I'll do some latex casts and use them as pauldrons. I'll use the foam to help them keep the shape. |
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Post by Curufea on Mar 27, 2014 21:51:04 GMT
Update on skull cast - sadly I used too much latex and it's taking far too long to dry, maybe in a few more days I can show a pic. However, I've made some roundels to be mounted in the armour by using latex on the Burn in Designs TARDIS dice tower I've got - the tray for the dice has a nicely sized New Who "Symbol of the Time Lords" - which is sometimes thought of as the new Seal of Rassilon.  Also, I've found some very cheap motorcross/BMX bike armour on eBay - seems the factories that make all the gear for American distribution, are also selling the stuff without labels and packaging for retail prices! So - chest/arms for less than $40 and legs for less than $30. If you'd ever gone shopping for any kind of armour, you'd realise what a huge saving that is. The bike impact armour looks techno - which is a really good base for Faction armour and will make the mounting of the foam parts far easier. |
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Post by Curufea on Mar 31, 2014 23:53:27 GMT
Skull casts done - the second one I used 3 light layers and it dried the same day. I'll not work on how to mount them so they're rounded pauldrons until the BMX armour arrives and I can see how to fit the foam parts (don't want to prematurely shape them).  In other news - the helmet arrived yesterday from Indonesia, fits really well, and is better quality than expected. I will need to shave the nose cavity a bit as it rubs - and I'll have to wear a balaclava underneath. The helmet is from here- motorcycle-retro-helmets.com/ The lasercut logos (for my LARP armour) arrived today - used an online australian service. onlinelasercutting.com.au/ This is the largest one, I've got several sizes (all cut from the same piece of white acrylic) The plastic is paper covered currently.  |
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Post by Curufea on Apr 14, 2014 3:08:45 GMT
BMX/Motorcross armour arrived - bit small in places and a bit flimsier than I like, but with some modification it should be able to have a ribcage mounted on it. I've been convinced by a work coleague that the bone plates I was making would be better as a spine, and have just a plain white upper arm. Also, these arrived from ebay -  I'll be putting the bones on my existing high-grip gloves (they come mounted on some nylon gloves) |
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Post by Curufea on Apr 26, 2014 5:52:43 GMT
Hands and arms didn't work out so it's back to the drawing board for them.
Breastplate and spine impressed folk though :-)
Sent from my GT-I9300 using proboards
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Post by Curufea on Apr 28, 2014 1:02:06 GMT
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Post by Curufea on Jun 15, 2015 5:17:18 GMT
Update on this, I've added a morph suit and some bones - it's getting near completion for this stage. Next stage will be paper mache and fibreglass.
I'll post pictures when the latest images are made available from this weekends LARP event.
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Post by Curufea on Jun 19, 2015 9:28:50 GMT
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