Hii, I'm Sonia
And this is the last part of
Palico armor's making of
Today i'm gonna show you how I made the helmet
Let's start the video!
To take the shape of the head I'm using transparent film
And with tape
I divided the pattern in section with a black sharpie
And I added some registration marks
I'm making only an half
because I'll can flip the pattern over and I have a simmetrical piece
I numbered the pieces
and carefully cut out the pattern
I clean the shapes retracing them on the paper
I trace them on eva foam using a white sharpie
I flip it over and I differentiated the shapes with A and B
I'm using 5mm eva foam
I cut it with a very sharp box cutter
I'ts important to keep the blade perpendicular to the foam surface
Now we have to assembling the pieces
To attach them I used contact glue
First I attached the pieces two by two
and afterwards to each other
Tu glue it's important to apply a thin layer of glue on both sides
After few minutes that the glue its dried
I attached the pieces carefully
I used the heat gun to give some shape to the pieces
and I helped me with a polystyrene sphere
to give them a rounded shape
As you can see I'm going slowly
and I take my time
Because contact glue its pretty strong for eva foam
and once you've attached the pieces toghether you can't divide them anymore
Now I have the base and I'm making a fitting test
I'm creating the horns volume with some aluminium foil
to have a base for the pattern
I take the shape with the ordinary method
I divide the horn in 4 numbered parts
and I trace all the registration marks
The registration marks helped me when I glue the pieces
The thickness of the foam it's 5mm
I glue the pieces with contact glue
I helped me with heat gun to round the pieces
And here it is the horn
Super lightweight
To make the other, I have to flip over the pieces
Now i'm fix them on the base
To create the additional details on the helmet
I re-used the pattern and I modified it with the paper
I've made several tests
I fixed the horns
wiith a ton of hot glue
I don't show you the details because it's always the same method
But for the additional part
I made it with 1cm thick eva foam
And its a separate part that
I glued to the base afterwards using contact glue
To make this detail I used 2mm eva foam
I draw the additional details
I use the drawed details to reference
Now I'm using some drills of my dremel
to create some textures
Dremel or rotary tool its practically a drill with a lot of tip that you can change
and you can use them to create a lot of textures
Its pretty dusty
With soldering iron I traced these lines
Now I'm using foam clay to create some organic details on the base of the horns
To smooth out the surface I used some water
To make the rivets I used also foam clay
and to glue them
I used super glue
I made this scales with foam clay
And the back scales are the same of the bracers scales
I used a sharp knife and I cut with a 45° beveld angle
Because when I glued the pieces I'll have a pointy edge
I used foam clay
to close the inside of the scales
I wait 24h to the foam clay its dried
Now i'm priming the foam
with Flexbond and I applied it with this flat brush
To apply it better I used some water
I'm sorry but I cant stay in the frame xD
This is the result after 3 layers of Flexbond
I used acrylics to paint
The technique it's always the same of the previous video
Check it out if you don't see it, I dont wanna repeat the same things
I love this technique because its simple and fast
and now enjoy the video
without my voice
The brown was a little too light,
so I decide to dark it
With some black diluted with water
and remove the excess with a cloth
There are 2 types of metal color
so I decided to leave the base blue on the sides and black on the center
I put a thin layer of this airbrush paint
This part it's always satisfying
I don't liked the result so I experimented with some other colors
Then I used Goldfinger to highlight some parts
I used a glossy spray varnish only on the metal parts
to make some some contrast with matt scales and shiny metal
This part it's hidden so I painted it black
and that's all!
Thank you for watching, I hope that it was inspirational
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Now I have to make the weapon
at the moment I don't started it yet
But probably when this video it will be out I'll starting it
Maybe
See you soon!
 
