Well, Halloween is approaching and my daughter has decided we're going as DC villains. I love the mask design for Deathstroke in Injustice: Gods Among Us so I decided to go that route. Not sure if I will do the rest of the armor as in the game (I prefer the armor from Arkham) but this is a start.
I started with the JF Custom foam template and exported it as an EPS file. I cleaned up the lines, connected everything up and deleted faces in Illustrator to get a clean vector file. I then took this and cut the pieces on the laser engraver in my shop out of 6mm foam.
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I hate cutting foam as it make a mess and my newly crawling daughter likes to stay in the room I usually work in. Have the foam precut made everything go a lot easier. Cleaning up the files took much less time than cutting the templates out of paper and tracing them on the foam. If you have access to a laser, I highly recommend it. The key is multiple passes on a low intensity setting. I even left the fold lines in the areas that make raised areas. The laser etched a very shallow line that acted as a guide for gluing. Very nice.
I also only used one side of the template and flipped it for the opposite side. I have found it easier to put both sides together when they match. I added any details that were only on one side (this is Deathstroke) but otherwise the sides are symmetrical.
The right eye 'patch' is giving me some trouble but it will work itself out eventually.
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More to come.
Brien
I started with the JF Custom foam template and exported it as an EPS file. I cleaned up the lines, connected everything up and deleted faces in Illustrator to get a clean vector file. I then took this and cut the pieces on the laser engraver in my shop out of 6mm foam.
I hate cutting foam as it make a mess and my newly crawling daughter likes to stay in the room I usually work in. Have the foam precut made everything go a lot easier. Cleaning up the files took much less time than cutting the templates out of paper and tracing them on the foam. If you have access to a laser, I highly recommend it. The key is multiple passes on a low intensity setting. I even left the fold lines in the areas that make raised areas. The laser etched a very shallow line that acted as a guide for gluing. Very nice.
I also only used one side of the template and flipped it for the opposite side. I have found it easier to put both sides together when they match. I added any details that were only on one side (this is Deathstroke) but otherwise the sides are symmetrical.
The right eye 'patch' is giving me some trouble but it will work itself out eventually.
More to come.
Brien