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- S2424
Hello all......this is my fist build and first thread about it. What is it you ask? well its FOAM BOARD. for those of you not familiar w/ crafting, foam board is a thin slice of Styrofoam sandwiched between 2 pieces of laminated paper. It comes in 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 inch thickness. I have been costuming for about 6 years now and have had great success using it so I figured, cardstock??? Hell, its too flimsy. I'm going to use my handy dandy foam board (mistake #1)!!!! Got my non-Pep Gamescanner MC plan-o-gram because I'm too cheap to spring for PEP Designer (mistake #2), and spray glued everything down to a nice sheet of FB (tired of typing foam board), and started cutting everything out. I did my homework in regards to tabs and at least i had the foresight to cut them off.
So here I have my plethora of pieces........Now I'm ready. By step/piece 4 I know I'm in deep doo doo. I managed to heat wrap the FB for the back piece and came to the conclusion that FB is too thick even at 1/4" to join up correctly. So cutting away began in earnest. By piece 8 I was exhausted. Every joint had to be beveled and each piece had to be re-cut to accommodate for a curvature of some type.
Ok, so w/ little choice, I resigned myself for a long and probably painful ordeal. By piece 12 I was stuck. Not knowing if the fold was mountain or valley, I had to reverse engineer my build. I restarted w/ the most distinctive aspect of MC helmet: The brim. Good move. In 2 hrs, I had re-pieced that whole part.
Now that I have a more specific idea where everything goes.....things picked up. That was until I realized what time it was and that I had work the next day (few hours actual) and that is where I stand at this point.
Comments and suggestions are all welcome as well as constructive criticisms. You can laugh, I am. But in the end, I will be a Spartan. Again, not an ancient one this time......a modern......um..... futuristic ......um.......futuristic fantasy Spartan, yeah...that's the ticket.
So here I have my plethora of pieces........Now I'm ready. By step/piece 4 I know I'm in deep doo doo. I managed to heat wrap the FB for the back piece and came to the conclusion that FB is too thick even at 1/4" to join up correctly. So cutting away began in earnest. By piece 8 I was exhausted. Every joint had to be beveled and each piece had to be re-cut to accommodate for a curvature of some type.
Ok, so w/ little choice, I resigned myself for a long and probably painful ordeal. By piece 12 I was stuck. Not knowing if the fold was mountain or valley, I had to reverse engineer my build. I restarted w/ the most distinctive aspect of MC helmet: The brim. Good move. In 2 hrs, I had re-pieced that whole part.
Now that I have a more specific idea where everything goes.....things picked up. That was until I realized what time it was and that I had work the next day (few hours actual) and that is where I stand at this point.
Comments and suggestions are all welcome as well as constructive criticisms. You can laugh, I am. But in the end, I will be a Spartan. Again, not an ancient one this time......a modern......um..... futuristic ......um.......futuristic fantasy Spartan, yeah...that's the ticket.