You can get a great leather texture with crumpled foil and a clothes iron. Not tried it with floor mats but could always add a 2 mm overlay with craft foam. Keep up the awesome builds and thank for sharing.
So cool! I would love to see a video about producing different metal effects for foam armor in particular, since there are so many different metals in games, from rusty iron to polished gold. I'm thinking more about the colors and visual textures than the physical ones that would be obtained through processes like cutting and dremeling the foam. Not full builds, obviously, but demos of sample squares would be awesome to see the actual procedure for. I'm working on some stuff that's well-worn but very well-kept brighter metal, the kind that has obviously seen more than its share of battle but is also owned by the sort of neurotic military man who would sooner die than let it show a spot of rust, move with more than a whisper, or otherwise fall out of condition. I've never really seen something dealing with armor that's been really intentionally well looked after over the years, which would seem to present its own interesting set of detailing quirks in finding that balance between looking good and looking too perfect.
***** Oh yeah, I know mine is bizarrely specific and wasn't suggesting doing that one in particular, just thinking of a basic and very general series on different levels of wear and sheen. So many of the tutorials floating around seem geared toward the rust 'n' dust category, and I feel like there's a big area that often gets overlooked but which can be very difficult to figure out how to approach for beginners. Experimenting is lots of fun, I just love getting to see how others approach things as well. :)
well my costume is not going to be done by Halloween but on the plus side the stickers I asked a friend to do for details are coming along nicely. it's going to be my emblem/ coat of arms/ family shield.
At art college we put a few sheets of wet kitchen roll on our pallets rather than adding loads of water to the paint , this way if you want more water you just press your brush down on the colour you want and it doesn't spill or flood into other colours... it also lasts a lot longer on your pallet before it dries and you don't need to worry about cleaning up when you're done as you just lift off the paper and run the pallet under the tap and you have an immaculate pallet and a nice paint job 🤓 no more scraping dried paint off
You built another better fitting helmet, Yay! Great video Bill, I am planning a Dr. Doom for next summer and these foam to metal videos are perfect for me.
ive been working on a large armour cosplay for Alphonse Elric from Full Metal Alchemist and your videos have been alot of help. its really dope as a cosplay challenge, perhaps you may even want to take on for yourself!
I'm watching these to get an idea on what I'll do to make Al's armor from Fullmetal Alchemist. Seems pretty straight forward but pretty hard work, no doubt.
Man I love your videos. You are talking so clearly and understandable. Not like some other videos I've watched where they go like "Thats what I want to cosplay. ... And OOOOH I added some paint and finish. Thank for watching my tutorial" 😂
I've learned a good way to make eva or other smaller craft foam to get a good crinkled texture of leather is to get a piece of aluminum foil (size depending on the how large your item is), crumble it up into a tight ball, carefully unfold it and take the crumbed sheet and place it over your item and then run a clothes iron over it, then repeat, repeat over the whole item. do that all the time for my ren fest costume
Punished Props I just finished construction on my chest and back and I achieved my leather texture by running a wire brush along the pieces to give it creases and grain.
I am also attempting some fallout 4 power armor, which will be attached to a wooden frame with some lockable joints, so if you want to check that out too I will try to upload more often
So…matte primer, dark bronze base, silver + black dry brush, silver dry brush, clear seal? I don’t care for the weathering on what I’m working on but the steel would look great otherwise. How different would it look without that dark bronze base?
Sir, What varnish spray can is that? like for wood varnish? I got clear coat spray paint but it's not so flex. Is 1 thin layer spray of clear coat okay for flexing foam? and does the metallic lost it's metallic if i use 1 thin layer of clear coat? Sorry for bad english, Thank You
i'm no expert, but shouldnt there be some sort of straps or cords on the leather part? i mean, if it's supposed to be "real". either way, this is amazing! admirable skill and patience.
Any chance that there could be foam blueprints for the dragon priest masks? I know you guys have done resin ones, but I'm much more comfortable (Both skill-wise and financially) with foam...
First of all, absolutely gorgeous. Secondly, It looks perfect. Thirdly, out of sheer curiosity, how many days did it take for you to paint all of this armor?
Thanks for this great video... How do these paints stand up to flexing? I've seen a lot of regular paints crack when flexed, twisted. I'm in the process of building some armour to look like bug carapace, so metallic/two-tone effects need to look good, but also be solid enough to be used in LARP battles. Any advice greatly appreciated
I just have the belt pice left to do, and ofcorse the paint job =) I have 5 more Days Before I must be done! Did you permanently fasten the puldrons to the armor? Im thinking about using ?velcro? so I can remove them if needed :)
What are you doing with the "handles" you attached for painting? Do you just cut them out as closely as you can to where they were glued? It's a really nice trick for spraying pieces, just wondering how you avoid damaging the piece when removing them after spraying.
Do you find you get a lot of 'cracked' paint with the pieces of the armor that bend a bit, even when using plastidip? I find whenever I use spray paint for a base colour, no matter how I apply it - very thin coats, thick coats, lots of plastidip, next to no plastidip, there's *always* cracks because the EVA will move while I paint it by and it'll 'crack'. Does it happen to you? If so, how do you fix it if it does? Thank you!
It does crack a bit, or at least crinkle. A lot of it comes down to how you build your armor. You want to structure it so it has the LEAST amount of flex - it's always a challenge.
Was the first spray paint after the plasti dip a primer? Should I always use a primer after sealing? and why didn't you use plasti dip again for finishing sealing? thanks d:
Yep! Spray paint does take a while to fully dry and finish degassing though, so it's best to give the sprayed paint time to dry before adding layers on top of it or you could end up with bubbles.
Punished Props I would love too..... but I'm having a TON of trouble getting a good helmet shape. I've tried the evil Ted way with the duct tape and everything, and I even bought your book and tried to copy the template and still failed. do you have any suggestions?
I used to have money, until I watched a video of bill. =P (btw, don0t know over there, but here in argentina Foam is really expensive, for about 30 bucks a floormat... and I said A single piece.)
Gon Garcia that's insane!! here in the U.S. it's $8 at harbor freight for four of them. Lowes has higher quality foam mats though (not as many bubbles) it's $20 for a pack.
A Skyrim moment I had was during a fight, I shot an arrow at a enemy and killed the bandit, through an eye. I've also got a bandit to say " What in oblivion are you?" When I went through a dungeon. I've never been able to pull those off again.
painting is one of my favorite parts of the build! I'll be working on elven armor soon!
'this one goes to elven'
*i'm so sorry*
Best armor painting tutorial out there, by like a million miles.
You rock so much, I'm stoked to see Bathesda giving you some love and letting you do this series.
You can get a great leather texture with crumpled foil and a clothes iron. Not tried it with floor mats but could always add a 2 mm overlay with craft foam. Keep up the awesome builds and thank for sharing.
This channel is awesome!!! I love the tutorials and the fact that you give template sets away
This will help me greatly with some post-apoc armor I'm working on.
Lo and behold; Kitty hath vanquished Anduin! See him cast off his mortal shackle! Behold Kitty's roar!
So cool! I would love to see a video about producing different metal effects for foam armor in particular, since there are so many different metals in games, from rusty iron to polished gold. I'm thinking more about the colors and visual textures than the physical ones that would be obtained through processes like cutting and dremeling the foam. Not full builds, obviously, but demos of sample squares would be awesome to see the actual procedure for.
I'm working on some stuff that's well-worn but very well-kept brighter metal, the kind that has obviously seen more than its share of battle but is also owned by the sort of neurotic military man who would sooner die than let it show a spot of rust, move with more than a whisper, or otherwise fall out of condition. I've never really seen something dealing with armor that's been really intentionally well looked after over the years, which would seem to present its own interesting set of detailing quirks in finding that balance between looking good and looking too perfect.
***** Oh yeah, I know mine is bizarrely specific and wasn't suggesting doing that one in particular, just thinking of a basic and very general series on different levels of wear and sheen. So many of the tutorials floating around seem geared toward the rust 'n' dust category, and I feel like there's a big area that often gets overlooked but which can be very difficult to figure out how to approach for beginners.
Experimenting is lots of fun, I just love getting to see how others approach things as well. :)
well my costume is not going to be done by Halloween but on the plus side the stickers I asked a friend to do for details are coming along nicely. it's going to be my emblem/ coat of arms/ family shield.
Can't wait to get started on my set, this is exactly what I needed for Farkas!
Got the patterns and some cut pieces on the bench right now!
Woohoo for paint job!
Looks really beautiful. I'm amazed at how you work. I appreciate you sharing, it's an inspiration.
I love this paint job! Awesome techniques.
At art college we put a few sheets of wet kitchen roll on our pallets rather than adding loads of water to the paint , this way if you want more water you just press your brush down on the colour you want and it doesn't spill or flood into other colours... it also lasts a lot longer on your pallet before it dries and you don't need to worry about cleaning up when you're done as you just lift off the paper and run the pallet under the tap and you have an immaculate pallet and a nice paint job 🤓 no more scraping dried paint off
You built another better fitting helmet, Yay! Great video Bill, I am planning a Dr. Doom for next summer and these foam to metal videos are perfect for me.
ive been working on a large armour cosplay for Alphonse Elric from Full Metal Alchemist and your videos have been alot of help. its really dope as a cosplay challenge, perhaps you may even want to take on for yourself!
Very cool!
This is awesome! Just made a Konahrik dragon priest mask today! Learning a lot from your videos! Thanks!
Love the detail in this costume. Thanks for sharing!
GREAT craftsmanship!!!!👍👍👍
Thanks for the great tutorial. Really gets the inspirational juices flowing!
Man, you guys have the best paint jobs.
I'm watching these to get an idea on what I'll do to make Al's armor from Fullmetal Alchemist. Seems pretty straight forward but pretty hard work, no doubt.
bro missed opportunity not saying "Enough Chatter, let's get at 'er"
Man I love your videos. You are talking so clearly and understandable. Not like some other videos I've watched where they go like "Thats what I want to cosplay. ... And OOOOH I added some paint and finish. Thank for watching my tutorial" 😂
We try to be as thorough as possible. =D
I've learned a good way to make eva or other smaller craft foam to get a good crinkled texture of leather is to get a piece of aluminum foil (size depending on the how large your item is), crumble it up into a tight ball, carefully unfold it and take the crumbed sheet and place it over your item and then run a clothes iron over it, then repeat, repeat over the whole item. do that all the time for my ren fest costume
Punished Props I just finished construction on my chest and back and I achieved my leather texture by running a wire brush along the pieces to give it creases and grain.
Much better with the new helmet that fits you.
I am currently working on a wastelander Pikachu cosplay suit of armour and this video had a lot of techniques that I'm going to use, thanks
you should try the mace of molag bal
I found it funny how your cat was ironically trying to eat Alduin's figurine. Alduin... The World Eater.
I made some iron armor from skyrim, and I will be making a video on that maybe in a few hours
Alright, I uploaded it so you can see the video
I am also attempting some fallout 4 power armor, which will be attached to a wooden frame with some lockable joints, so if you want to check that out too I will try to upload more often
I was going to me N7 armor from mass effect by carving out a foam blocks. Your way looks alot easyer
Great paint job Bill, you do metal very well thanks for the share. G
So…matte primer, dark bronze base, silver + black dry brush, silver dry brush, clear seal? I don’t care for the weathering on what I’m working on but the steel would look great otherwise.
How different would it look without that dark bronze base?
The painting techniques from this video could be used for Bethesda's other ip, power armour from fallout
im new to foamsmithing what is a good tutorial of yours to start with. Maybe the hunter knife?
Sir, What varnish spray can is that? like for wood varnish? I got clear coat spray paint but it's not so flex. Is 1 thin layer spray of clear coat okay for flexing foam? and does the metallic lost it's metallic if i use 1 thin layer of clear coat?
Sorry for bad english,
Thank You
If we are transmuting now just remember that human transmutation is forbidden.
i'm no expert, but shouldnt there be some sort of straps or cords on the leather part? i mean, if it's supposed to be "real".
either way, this is amazing! admirable skill and patience.
Any chance that there could be foam blueprints for the dragon priest masks? I know you guys have done resin ones, but I'm much more comfortable (Both skill-wise and financially) with foam...
First of all, absolutely gorgeous. Secondly, It looks perfect. Thirdly, out of sheer curiosity, how many days did it take for you to paint all of this armor?
Do you know of a alt to Plastidip, That stuff is hard to find in Australia (Perth)
Do you cover more painting techniques in your Foamsmith vol 1?
outstanding job. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for this great video... How do these paints stand up to flexing?
I've seen a lot of regular paints crack when flexed, twisted.
I'm in the process of building some armour to look like bug carapace, so metallic/two-tone effects need to look good, but also be solid enough to be used in LARP battles.
Any advice greatly appreciated
I just have the belt pice left to do, and ofcorse the paint job =) I have 5 more Days Before I must be done! Did you permanently fasten the puldrons to the armor? Im thinking about using ?velcro? so I can remove them if needed :)
Is there any way of getting a more polished steel finish short of chroming?
its amazing!!!! Thanks for the shout out!!
Your link for the template doesn't work for me for some reason it sucks cus I want to make the armor
What are you doing with the "handles" you attached for painting? Do you just cut them out as closely as you can to where they were glued? It's a really nice trick for spraying pieces, just wondering how you avoid damaging the piece when removing them after spraying.
Okay! I've been working on my first armor pieces and your videos have been a huge help! Thanks so much! :)
Epic work! looking good
did you make a new helmet? the other one was way bigger than your head and suddenly it fits :D
So no heat sealing any of the costume parts at all?, you just went straight onto three layers of plastidip?
Khajiit is not afraid of spiky lizard.
Beautiful work again Bill! Thanks for great content and inspiration.
Chrome on Foam? Best advice (Think Phasma:)
that looks amazing!
Is the link to the blue prints down? Keeps telling me no results found
"I need some fur and some straps". Don't we all, Bill, don't we all?
Do you find you get a lot of 'cracked' paint with the pieces of the armor that bend a bit, even when using plastidip? I find whenever I use spray paint for a base colour, no matter how I apply it - very thin coats, thick coats, lots of plastidip, next to no plastidip, there's *always* cracks because the EVA will move while I paint it by and it'll 'crack'. Does it happen to you? If so, how do you fix it if it does?
Thank you!
It does crack a bit, or at least crinkle. A lot of it comes down to how you build your armor. You want to structure it so it has the LEAST amount of flex - it's always a challenge.
Was the first spray paint after the plasti dip a primer? Should I always use a primer after sealing? and why didn't you use plasti dip again for finishing sealing? thanks d:
***** Oh okay I see! So the Primer is here to help the paint get on the surface! thanks :D
So amazing! I will definitely need to try this!! :D
What brand of varnish do you use and where do you get it from?
What if you rino lined the outside of the armor
where do you get your acrylics?
Do you sell any of your creations?
You can remake your cat attacking Alduin by being the cat race
Hah!
Can we get a video on making the Hero Chip Brush? That thing looks extra ratty! :)
Use it for everything. All the time.
Just to confirm, you can paint acrylics over the rustoleum spray paints?
Yep! Spray paint does take a while to fully dry and finish degassing though, so it's best to give the sprayed paint time to dry before adding layers on top of it or you could end up with bubbles.
Awesome job!!
you should make the Metroid helmet
Punished Props I would love too..... but I'm having a TON of trouble getting a good helmet shape. I've tried the evil Ted way with the duct tape and everything, and I even bought your book and tried to copy the template and still failed. do you have any suggestions?
Screwheads???in armour?????
5:30 Jajargo defeat Alduin now.
Nice.keep up the good work
Does anyone have blue prints for the Nordic Carved Armor?
Anyone ever use blush retarder to fix cloudiness in clear coat?
Always been interested on painting, I always make the piece look nice but when I paint it it looks horrible lol thanks for this video!
always!
Now I wanna make something from Skyrim...
hello. what kind of glue are using in this armor? where can i buy it?
I usually use Barge Cement! You can find a link in the Adhesives section on this page: Basic Shop Tools punishedprops.com/bills-tools/
Great job!!!!
I want to hear some "arrow to the knee" jokes.
I used to be a foam maker... until I got my dremel through my knee (?
I used to overuse memes,
but then I took an arrow to the knee
I used to have money, until I watched a video of bill.
=P
(btw, don0t know over there, but here in argentina Foam is really expensive, for about 30 bucks a floormat... and I said A single piece.)
Gon Garcia that's insane!! here in the U.S. it's $8 at harbor freight for four of them. Lowes has higher quality foam mats though (not as many bubbles) it's $20 for a pack.
ikr! its realy expensive.... Im sure for 10 or more they might do you a discount... but noe everyone wants to spend that much on one go...
hehe
make a fallout stimpack
A Skyrim moment I had was during a fight, I shot an arrow at a enemy and killed the bandit, through an eye. I've also got a bandit to say " What in oblivion are you?" When I went through a dungeon. I've never been able to pull those off again.
Magical!
Just posted on #skyrimmemes! getting all the parts cut out its nuts!
Which one works better on plasti dip acrylic paint or spray paint?
That depends wildly on which brand of spray or acrylic paints you use. I recommend trying many paints to discover which is your favorite.
what to do if i don't own a chipped brush?
***** where? cuz im in a small country in europe not in the usa
How long, in your estimation, did it take to paint those layers?
I'm sorry, I don't remember.
5:35 Alduin Kille by a Khajiit xD
5:26 Plastic Figure Vs Dragon
what kind of paint you use to brush?
This one was mostly acrylics. I have links to the specific paints in the description.
Dragon born cat at 5:33
Hot damn, that's a lot of paint layers! looks great though :D thanks for the tutorial!
Do you have an email address? I have some armor ideas for a Roman Legionary.
Sorry we don't accept build suggestions via email
not bad
Did he mean Andrew dft?
Ok :(
Your domesticated kajiit doesn't seem to like alduin very much.
Hah!
dovahkcat!!
I have not got a painting bone in my body, building it easy, painting nope i'm shocking haha
You can do it! It takes practice :)
ichigo
Skyrim special edition - pay us another $60 for what you can achieve for free (if you already own skyrim)!
batastrophe well if you have the legendary edition you get it for free
and you probably do
#SkyrimMemories
hey it's ok i have only played 331 hours