Recent content by Devereth

Sweet. Thanks Doom.

Nice work, dude. You're going to mold the AR, right? :unsure:

1. Thanks for the encouragement. 2. It's really just molded armor, except I'm using pepakura to make sculpting easier. 3. Dang. I'm going to start working on the hand armor plates fairly soon, so hopefully I can get some pics up before it gets closed.

Alrighty then, let's start with an introduction. Hi to all. I'm Devereth (aka Justin). I'm kinda new here, but definitely not a newb when it comes to costuming. Although I've mainly dealt with fabrics in the past (almost all of my costumes were for theatre productions), I know quite a bit about...

To all who don't understand, just read the stickies. If you want to learn about making molds, watch the instructional videos on Freeman's website (there's link to them in the Tutorial Links sticky). Seriously, every time a new thread opens, there's an endless stream of newbies asking, "How do I...

Thanks for the help, guys. BTW, cgspartan, how would you cut the chipboard? With just an x-acto knife, or is it too thick for that?

I was thinking of printing out the Pep patterns on paper, gluing them onto the corrugated cardboard, and then cutting out the shapes in the cardboard using an x-acto knife.

First ever post here, though I've been lurking for a while. Anyway, would it be possible to make pep armor using something strong (like corrugated cardboard) without fiberglassing to form the basic shape, then cover it with clay and sculpt out the details? If I could do that, I was thinking...