Hmmm...
I want Captain Phasma armour, so I found a bunch of various storm trooper armor making techniques on the internet, I need a good balance between accuracy, simplicity, and cost.
I am considering:
Paper mache
Cardboard and bondo
Forming from PVC
and variations of all of these. What other techniques are there? And which provide the best cost to simplicity to accuracy ratio? Is it a better idea to just buy a suit?
The problem is that while all of that would be great for a regular stormtrooper, they aren't gonna give you the metallic look of her suit.
>>921696
Couldn't a chrome paint get the job done?
>>921697
chromed-looking armor on plastic is always a pain. Chrome paint usually can't do any better than shiny, even with a massive amount of prep and work, and it enhances every single possible flaw and structural wrinkle. Working from perfect vac casts the best bet might be vacuum metalizing or chroming, maybe skinning the parts in some kind of mylar-like material and bonding it smoothly.
>>921704
>>921695
and for general Strom Trooper armor, much less First Order/Phasma details, the interwebs is covered in 501st members and prop-replica groups who are solving these problems as fast abd publicly as possible. look around. You might purchase unfinished suit-blanks from someone who has a vacuum mold or get together in a group to make the minimum order for some special metal-plastic. The place to be is those specialist forums, not here.
