OJ102
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Hi there,
Im lookjng into posible ways of toughening up my armour prior to painting.
Its a ironman endgame model. To help woth details i broke each component down into 3 layers.
Outerlayer - these are the plates of armour over areas that wont need to flex.
Base layer- these are the areas in the center requiring flexibility but need thickness for strength
Underlay- these are indents into the suit that are wither to fill joints ot show deeper detail but arnt structural so are thinner to not restrict inner suit space.
The outer and base are made with 100* high density foam, 5mm thick. The enderlay is 2mm same density.
Ive seen apme promising results using 3 layers of pva foam as a primer for adding resin to, this seems to make it ridgid.
I was thinking that if i could do that on just the outer layer, the panela that are large and dont flex, it could give a nice metalic feel as the base and under layers would cover the flexing.
Has anyone tried something like this? The suit has a fairly high detail level and will have lighting in just about every component wired into a central power pack in the chest so some reinforcement would help a lot
Im lookjng into posible ways of toughening up my armour prior to painting.
Its a ironman endgame model. To help woth details i broke each component down into 3 layers.
Outerlayer - these are the plates of armour over areas that wont need to flex.
Base layer- these are the areas in the center requiring flexibility but need thickness for strength
Underlay- these are indents into the suit that are wither to fill joints ot show deeper detail but arnt structural so are thinner to not restrict inner suit space.
The outer and base are made with 100* high density foam, 5mm thick. The enderlay is 2mm same density.
Ive seen apme promising results using 3 layers of pva foam as a primer for adding resin to, this seems to make it ridgid.
I was thinking that if i could do that on just the outer layer, the panela that are large and dont flex, it could give a nice metalic feel as the base and under layers would cover the flexing.
Has anyone tried something like this? The suit has a fairly high detail level and will have lighting in just about every component wired into a central power pack in the chest so some reinforcement would help a lot