2 Of a kind

2 Of a kind

After a few weeks of having my hot glue i deiced to finally stop putting of assembling the other foot. After many hot glue burns these are my finished product. More work needs to be done for them to be fully finished how ever assembly is complete.

The next stop is to build the shins and knee pads this should be much quicker than assembling the feet as i type i am printing out the templates. 

Sticking it together (Still a foot)

Assembly

After i had cut them out the next step was to stick it all together.

The red tape is to hold it in place temporarily 

Unfortunately i ran out of hot glue before i finished gluing the shoe/boot together(i used 6). So i now have 50 more sticks on order. Bellow is how far i got before i ran out.

For size comparison i have size 12 feet in the UK. 

My foot inside the shoe/boot to show comparison 

My flip flop in to show more comparison I feel i may have to bulk up quite significant to become the 8' tall super human i building amour for. Lucky i have a quick cheaty method to fix this.  

A foot a head

A foot

So having recently received my the foam i immediately being to start work on creating my power. The first point of call was starting form the bottom up e.g. the feet. I started off by printing the plans of my PC. I used my trusty (and incredibly squeaky) wedding guillotine to remove the printer edge borders. This allowed all of the plans/blueprints to line up perfectly.

Desk Ready for copping paper

After i had sliced 14 pages of pure awesomeness (Generic shoe plan). I began to lay them out.

Once they were all done i began laying them out i then taped them together and cutting them out. Once i had all the templates i arranged them on the foam. I them used a washable marker pen to trace round the outside and give me an outline to cut.

Foam with cutting guideline drawn on. Templates in the top right corner. 

Start of a new amour.

Start of a new amour.

My names Josh and I like most people that played 40k always wondered what it would be like to be a Space Marine, wear power amour. Well I might not have bionics or able to build them but I will be giving a go at make my own power amour costume.

First step is to get enough foam

So i picked up 6 sheets of 72"x 48" x 0.5"
For those of you that are hobbyists that's a standard gaming table as describe in the 40k rule book :)

The foam in its current storage place. 

Unpacking the foam