Lightning Farron Leg Armor mini tutorial !!!
So I don’t really know if I’m the best person to be giving advice about anything armor related, but if you wanna get armor that looks like this, here’s a simple way how to.
1. Make a pattern on your leg with normal paper by wrapping your leg in surround wrap and tape and drawing it where you want it.
2. Cut patter off and Copy the pattern onto foam.
3. Use a heat gun to form the foam into the shape you desire it to be.
4. Use elastic, hot glue, and small clips to attach a band to the back of the foam. This will hold it up when you’re all done. I bought small clips off of amazon for cheap.
5. Add whatever details necessary with more foam.
6. Prime foam with modge podge!
7. Paint with acrylic paint.
8. MAKE SURE TO DIRTY UP THE ARMOR.
9. Add a final coat of modge podge !
TADA. BELLA’S VERSION OF FOAM ARMOR !!!
Hope this helped people? Maybe? Kinda? Not at all? WELL! I’m always here to help if you have questions on how I do something or whatever !
This tutorial makes use of something that I’ve noticed some people haven’t realized - thin strips of craft foam are VERY flexible
This means, if you’re putting a strip around the edge of an armor piece, you don’t need to painstakingly cut out a shape that’s exactly the same as the armor piece itself with a hole in the middle. You can just cut a bunch of strips the width you want the edge detail to be, and they’ll bend around most curves. Then when you hit a sharp angle, if you’re careful, it’s not hard to cut two pieces to meet in the corner with almost no visible seam. This is INFINITELY easier than trying to cut an even border that’s exactly the same size as the armor, since you can use a straight edge to make sure everything is cut cleanly.
