hours to dry then remove your
will give us a nice color foundation
inch below your knee. You’ll see
safety pins and hot glue your foam
on all our armor, plus it’s really
why once we finish this part. Use
shoe together. Make sure the fit
fast and saves a lot of time. Give
your shin as a guideline to trace
is snug on the boot inside - you
it a few hours to dry and now put
the shape you want - you want the
want it to move with your foot as
it all together with hot glue and
piece to be a bit fitted so use pins
one and not wobble around when
you have yourself a robot shoe!
to hold the shape while you fit it
you walk. Don’t start gluing the
The shin pieces are elongated
to your lower leg. Do be careful
detail pieces on till later because
trapezoids (like rectangles but
using sewing pins; they can get
we want to prime and paint them
thinner at the bottom and a bit
prickly if you’re careless. Make any
which I will go through now. When
wider at the top). When you start
alterations you need till you are
we paint our pieces we want to use
cutting the shapes, make sure it’s
satisfied with the fit. Make sure it
a copper spray paint. Using this
about an inch above and a half
fits around the pants you will be
wearing for the outfit, then glue
the pieces together but leave one
corner unglued. Don’t forget to
glue the inside as well so it stays
more secure, and then let it dry.
Use pins to close it all together
and keep it secure during gluing.
Now we add an outer layer of craft
foam to the corners of the piece
to make it both more sturdy and
accurate to Vulcan’s design. Make
sure the pieces are wide enough
to cover both sides of the corner.
Now with the the open side we
want to make it into a flap so it’s
easier to take off and put on. Just
glue one side of the strip and
leave the other side open, then
add velcro tape to the shin armor.
This part gets a little tricky since
the craft foam is so delicate. Add
a strip of cardboard paper on the
inside and then add another piece
of velcro tape to it - that way it
doesn’t break apart when you pull
it off the velcro. Now it should
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