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Finishing the rigid suit |
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This part of the project is in progress, I will post updates as I go. Here are some YouTube videos on the latest as of May 12th 2012:
Each piece of the suit has had a mould made from the foam suit, then been cast in plastic, cleaned up, filled and sanded and primed. First the helmet was cast and sanded. The white one on the left in the first picture is the cleaned up version, the other is a raw cast:
Then car body filler was used, more sanding, filling, sanding and primer again:
My original ab plate was bolt flat, so once I'd cast the plastic version I heated it up and stretched the curve into it, followed by sanding, filling etc:
Here's the back of the torso being cast etc:
Here's the back and front together, I've left some overlap so there's something to latch them together with:
Shoulder bells, which were pretty bad casts:
After a lot of clean up:
Biceps:
Forearms:
Leg moulds and my first cast, which has been cleaned up slightly. Check out the leg moulding article.
Here are some of the pieces together as of 14th may 2012, the pelvis/cod pieces are also done but not pictured:
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