Hi all. Total NOOB to Pep and Foam armor smithing (though I have worked with chainmaile for years) and I took it upon myself to try my hand at an EVA Foam Forearm and Bicep sections of a War Machine build.
Total time from printing of templates (TY Juice and many others for the input and designs), cutting from cardstock, transfering forms to foam, cutting each part and final assembly was about 6.5 hours.
Not knowing, having never worked with foam and hot glue before, how strong the contact points might be in these kind of builds, you will see a goodly amount of extra glue along most edges. I assumed these areas should be easily removed and made flush (both cleaning the edges and filling the minor gaps) with some light sanding.
Enjoy and comments are welcome.
First template printouts to cardstock:
Templates cut and set aside by body part:
Templates transfered to eva foam sheet:
1/4in thickness eva foam:
First cut is made (rather easy to get clean, straight lines in this thickness of eva foam):
It only takes about 30secs-1min to cut out each section, assuming a slow and steady cutting speed:
Forearm parts cut:
Total time from printing of templates (TY Juice and many others for the input and designs), cutting from cardstock, transfering forms to foam, cutting each part and final assembly was about 6.5 hours.
Not knowing, having never worked with foam and hot glue before, how strong the contact points might be in these kind of builds, you will see a goodly amount of extra glue along most edges. I assumed these areas should be easily removed and made flush (both cleaning the edges and filling the minor gaps) with some light sanding.
Enjoy and comments are welcome.
First template printouts to cardstock:
Templates cut and set aside by body part:
Templates transfered to eva foam sheet:
1/4in thickness eva foam:
First cut is made (rather easy to get clean, straight lines in this thickness of eva foam):
It only takes about 30secs-1min to cut out each section, assuming a slow and steady cutting speed:
Forearm parts cut:
