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Published: 2010-05-31 03:26:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 38688; Favourites: 507; Downloads: 305
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ENJOY! FIRST TUTORIAL EVER.Quick edit's note. either use some sort of crayon or strong marking pencil on the camping mat, if that doesn't work use a sharpie. Sharpie will work well but the mat Absorbs like crazy so when you handle it you WILL get your hands a bit dirty. will remod tutorial for updated version later when kinks in neck are gone XD
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Well it would depend on what you plan to use it on. Snaps are nice when it's simple light weight armor, Velcro if it's something fairly big, if it's a big chunk of armor I'd use elastics or something
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Well, it is quite a "block" armor. The torso part is quite a unique part. Here's a reference pic [link]
There is no problem for me with making the arms, but the neck and the torso are quite dubtfull. maybe it can be made with as a single piece with velcro straps?
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yeah, you could do that. though that's some crazy stuff!
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That's why your tutorial will be very helpful for me! XD
I don't think the pinnacle can be made by camping mat, however what do you think for arms, hands and torso?
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you can use craft foam for the arms and hands, as for the torso, it's kind of hard to see what it looks like from that ref alone
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i find this quite informative
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l definitely have to use this for some future project ^^
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Great tutorial, very simple to follow!
I'm going to try this out for some larp armour and see how it holds up. Might need some stronger glue...
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Hot glue is pretty tough, also when you glue onto the mat, the mat absorbs the glue in a bit, that stuff seeps in pretty deep!
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I find that it dries really solid and doesn't have a lot of flex, so it tends to just break for me when I use it on anything that needs to take an impact. Could just be the glue rods I'm using, though!
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maybe, hot glue loses flexibility the more in mass it gets. depend on how much you spread around determines it's flexibility.
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Really cool, I'm faving. I never thought camping mats to be a potential material for armor since they are so soft, so kudos
(though I'm making my Edward Elric automail arm and leg out of 1mm aluminum.. 
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Indeed. the stuff works great for simple armors
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ILU with all my heart lol I was going to go with the CARDBOARD WAY TO DO THINGs. D:
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Cardboard does the job just as well!
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Yeah but it doesnt give that roundness that I'm looking for hahaha
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depends on how you go about it
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I suppose so! 
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you could mod a light saber
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Perhaps hahah hey are you going to AX this year?
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Look for the KHR group hahah I'll see you there!
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Thank you so much for the tutorial! I'll have to try it out! Will work well for Fire Emblem costumes
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No problem glad I could help~
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Ooh this looks very intruiging. I'll have to try it. I've heard of using camping mat foam to make understructures for weapons, but never for armor.
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it's quite handy. I wouldn't recommend this for all kinds of armor but simple stuff or large things this works great (though i did see someone building a tekkaman blade costume using this stuff! astounding)
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Does the mat naturally bend like that in the first picture or was there something you did to it to make it do that?
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the mat comes in rolls so it has some bend to it from the start but What i did was took a second piece of camping mat, and bent it further and glued it together to force its shape.
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Maguma...you damn genius....I'm gonna use this!
I guess I owe you a coke.
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Fine fine, a delicious cookie I will buy you. If we ever meet.
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Using camping mat material is the genius I was going at. I've been using craftfoam before but I sometimes feel like it isn't enough "umph" so to say.
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