Plots and Seams

I finished the third draft of Dark Fire book 1 a month ago, so for the past several weeks I have been busy working on my costume. But I'm not going to talk anymore in this intro thing,  I'm just going to jump ahead to the pictures. They're the fun part anyway  ;) I heated the foam with an embossing gun and bent it to the desired shape. The tutorial I looked at said that you could use a stove burner or a heat gun. I decided to use an embossing gun. It seemed safer. The arm guards.  I had already heated and shaped the bottom one, but I still had to do the top one. I glued material to the inside of the foam as a reinforcement.  Then I cut the extra material from around the foam.  I sprayed a sealant onto the foam before using the spray paint. So shiny :) I weathered the armour with silver and black paint, sometimes mixed with water, other times dry-brushed on. The left armour had been...

Sorry that I haven't written a post in a while. Life has been busy. I've been writing and doing science. I've also applied to and been accepted at Heritage college & seminary. So, I will most likely be going there in the fall. I've also started to work on another costume. I might be going to Fan Expo in September and I've been trying to figure out which costume to make. I thought it would be cool to make armor, so I have finally decided to try my hand at making an elf costume. One of the ones that goes to Helm's Deep in the Two Towers. There are many different ways of making armor but I decided to try using craft foam. It's pretty cheap and seems easy to work with. I found  this tutorial pretty helpful though there are a few times when I had to guess and tweak my pattern.  I printed out the pattern from the tutorial. The pieces were very small, not at all to scale. So I had to trace the correct size onto the Bristol board. Once...