Help needed for fake armour for World of Warcraft Cosplay

By Dimey. 05/05/10, 07:09 pm

Hey there! I am hoping to enter the Wellygeddon'11 Cosplay Comp and I am stuck on how to do the shoulder pads for my character (below)

http://iusbvision.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/sylvanas-windrunner.jpg

Any help would be greatly appreciated

By Frozon. 05/05/10, 07:18 pm

im doing pepakura for my delta suit

i would suggest that if you can find the plans for it?

By Dimey. 05/05/10, 07:30 pm

Interesting thought, but maybe not quite what I was looking for.

Thank you very much though :)

By **Mandie_Chan**. 05/05/10, 07:35 pm

Shoulder pads~

There are a few ways to make armour like that so I'll just put links here to tutorials ^_^
http://www.jiajem.com/armor.html
http://entropyhouse.com/penwiper/costumes/helmsdeep.html <-- I would recommend this one
http://amethyst-angel.com/armormaking_construction.html

hopefully there will be one there that helps~
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By fleyer. 05/05/10, 07:36 pm

Skulls would be hard ><
I'd suggest craft foaming/wonderflexing it and then super gluing clay skulls to it.
Problem with that would be craft foam may be a bit weak, wonderflex is expensive and the clay might be too heavy.
But it would probably work.

By Dimey. 05/05/10, 07:37 pm

What I was thinking was something very light for the main pad bits, then the details like the edges will be clay or something like that. Both of you have been very helpful though, thank you!

P.S Mandie-Chan your Justin Bieber (assuming) .gif made me laugh heartily.

By **Mandie_Chan**. 05/05/10, 07:39 pm

@Dimey
heheh thanks~

also in the second page of one of those tutorials has a few ideas for sticking on things to shoulder armor.
http://amethyst-angel.com/armormaking_construction2.html
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By Cookie Monster. 17/05/10, 11:58 pm

I would insist on craft foam - the difficult parts of the armour being a half corset style breatsplate and a full jills (groin armour); anything plastic which is thicker than 2mm well add weight to it and you'll have trouble keeping them up unless you suspend the breastplate via a harness system and attach the jills to your chausses.

Edit
Polystyrene Halloween ornaments or non goofy plastic kids masks would be light enough to stick on as the skulll decorations for pauldrons (shoulder pads).