Cad Bane
Episode II
The Journey to Infamous
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Got a nice ring to it, eh? Well, as alluded to earlier, approval is great and all but the work continues to get this costume up to the Infamous standard. To do so, I need to rebuild my gaunts and make sure my jacket and duster are two separate parts. Going to work on those two pieces first and will start with the gaunts.
I also want to use my Chris Stevens Creations mask, and that will necessitate a rebuild of the hat (the head is larger). It also may need a little silver paint on the discs. I was originally thinking that it would also require a rebuild of my breather tank and the hoses, but having messed with it today, I am thinking that those parts may be fine. I still may rebuild them just so the tank is a slight bit larger and I'm thinking about using black surgical tubing to rebuild the hoses. We'll see what I come up with but here is a preview:
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Anybody that has a Chris Stevens mask, do you cut away the extra material around the shoulders or leave it? Unsure what I'm supposed to do so I'm leaving it for now.
Anyway, so I started messing with a complete gauntlet rebuild from scratch. I started with a few sheets of ABS plastic:
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And then I started trying to do math using some reference material and blowing the sizes up so that they would possibly fit a real boy!
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Finally started using that 5th grade education!!!
Then, I drew out the rough shape of what I will want and cut the top piece.
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And started hitting it with a heat gun to get the slope on the back side of it:
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Here it is next to my current gauntlet:
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It's about an inch longer on the top deck and about an inch longer on the bottom, hose insertion deck. That gives it about 2 inches more of total length, which I am hopeful will put it more in proportion to the character. Remember, my current gauntlets are a bit stubby. I am hopeful that this additional length will make them look a little sleeker, but I am also hopeful that I will still be able to bend my elbows.
I then cut out the sides:
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And taped it all together to see what I was dealing with:
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Here's another pic next to the current one so you can see the extra length:
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It's still rather blocky though and I just don't think I could ever get the wrist area as narrow as the characters as these gauntlets don't appear to have any hinges (on the cartoon), so inserting your hand in the back is about the only way to get them on. I am hopeful that I can come up with something that will look good though.
Then, I went back to my tried and true method of cutting some 4 inch PVC pipe to create and interior support system. Hey, when they sell it by 10 foot increments, you're going to have some laying around!
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So, that is where they stand at this point. I'm getting some additional ABS sheets so that I can cut out the other gauntlet using these parts as a template before I go further. My plan then is to epoxy it all together and then I was thinking about using the heat gun to round out the bottom parts of the gaunt and then I should have just a small, flat, section to add around where the dart will go. I'm hopeful that melting them into a rounder shape will make them look a bit better, but am realistic that I may never achieve the full look of the cartoon. It's a start though.
Then, I started building the boxes that will go on the top.
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I haven't epoxied anything yet as I'd like to get the other one built at the same time so that I can use all these parts as templates. I also bought 4 of these to see if I can use them on the buttons on the top:
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My concern is that they will end up being too tall, so I may need to get some smaller LED lights and square or rectangular acrylic pieces that I can use. Yeah, that's the ticket, maybe some small lights would be easier to mount in there. That's the goal anyway.
Well, that's all for today. Time to go Biker Scout a Bday party! Have a great sunny day out there peeps!