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Ok here is my first project post, and it is a finished project.

I heard I about the foam building tech a year ago , and could never find the foam in any stores. I refused to pay the shipping for it online. So when I was in Biglots and came across some mat foam I was very happy.
I got the foam for $18, and it is a lot.

I decided I wanted to make some Sayain armour from the anime cartoon Dragon Ball Z.

Here are my resources, and tools.

Action figure reffrence.
The Foam.
A permanent marker to draw on the foam.
Tape measurer t get size of waste, and from hip to hip over shoulder.
A Exacto knife to cut out the patern.
heat gun to shape the foam.
straight edge to make sure your drimmle lines are straight. ( I used a paint mixing stick)
drimmle to cut the design into the foam.
Grey primer paint.
Acrylic paints.
A brush to paint with, and a spunge brush to dry brush with.
Velcro to close the armour.

I decided I wanted to do this all in one hunk of foam and have it fit on the wearer like a ponch.

After getting my measurements just right , and drawing the design on to paper. I cut the paper out as a mock test to see if it would fit me. It worked so I traced the paper design onto the foam.

Using the Exacto knife I cut out the foam.

Next I drew the design onto the foam with a marker and straight edge.
After than I drawing the design I usinged my drimmle and straight edge to get the details into the foam.

Next I shaped the foam after heating it with a heat gun.

Once the shaping the foam. I put it on a close hanger and hung it from a tree in my back yard and primered it. I let it set for a few hours and when when I came back to get it I found that my dog had eaten part of it.
The wind had blown it down from the tree and she made a meal of it.

I never seem to finish any of my builds. So after getting so close to finished I was determined to complete this one.
So I painted it battle damaged .

I dry brushed the white areas with whie acrylic paint on a sponge brush. This kept the drimmle lines grey from the primering, adding depth, and texture.

Next I brushed on a base brown/tanish/ olive color over straps and abs.
After the base color I added a high light over the raised areas.
Then I when between the straps etching area with a darker brown.

All the area that was eaten away I decied was burned. So I went over that with a black dry brush. Then added a bit of dark red for dried blood.

My goal with my builds/ costumes is to make something movie qulity. I think I did that, and for cheap.

Description
Ok here is my first project post, and it is a finished project.

I heard I about the foam building tech a year ago , and could never find the foam in any stores. I refused to pay the shipping for it online. So when I was in Biglots and came across some mat foam I was very happy.
I got the foam for $18, and it is a lot.

I decided I wanted to make some Sayain armour from the anime cartoon Dragon Ball Z.

Here are my resources, and tools.

Action figure reffrence.
The Foam.
A permanent marker to draw on the foam.
Tape measurer t get size of waste, and from hip to hip over shoulder.
A Exacto knife to cut out the patern.
heat gun to shape the foam.
straight edge to make sure your drimmle lines are straight. ( I used a paint mixing stick)
drimmle to cut the design into the foam.
Grey primer paint.
Acrylic paints.
A brush to paint with, and a spunge brush to dry brush with.
Velcro to close the armour.

I decided I wanted to do this all in one hunk of foam and have it fit on the wearer like a ponch.

After getting my measurements just right , and drawing the design on to paper. I cut the paper out as a mock test to see if it would fit me. It worked so I traced the paper design onto the foam.

Using the Exacto knife I cut out the foam.

Next I drew the design onto the foam with a marker and straight edge.
After than I drawing the design I usinged my drimmle and straight edge to get the details into the foam.

Next I shaped the foam after heating it with a heat gun.

Once the shaping the foam. I put it on a close hanger and hung it from a tree in my back yard and primered it. I let it set for a few hours and when when I came back to get it I found that my dog had eaten part of it.
The wind had blown it down from the tree and she made a meal of it.

I never seem to finish any of my builds. So after getting so close to finished I was determined to complete this one.
So I painted it battle damaged .

I dry brushed the white areas with whie acrylic paint on a sponge brush. This kept the drimmle lines grey from the primering, adding depth, and texture.

Next I brushed on a base brown/tanish/ olive color over straps and abs.
After the base color I added a high light over the raised areas.
Then I when between the straps etching area with a darker brown.

All the area that was eaten away I decied was burned. So I went over that with a black dry brush. Then added a bit of dark red for dried blood.

My goal with my builds/ costumes is to make something movie qulity. I think I did that, and for cheap.