Randomly I started to make Meredith cosplay :'D
Knight Commander Meredith is from Dragon Age 2.
And I've been doing some experimenting, but here's the good progres I've done so far:
The first steps were to study her armour. So I downloaded a mod for my Hawke and took a ton of screencaps xD
And then I made patterns based on this study and traced them on some craft foam and camping mattress.
And then some cutting and glueing.. With superglue and hot glue.
Our cat Samus wanted to join his efforts too :'D
After gluing I used heat gun/ paint stripper gun to shape this a little for it was convex a bit wrong way. No pics, sorry :/
Next step was to ad a couple of layers of glue on top of the craft foam and camping mattress. For making it harder and for have a sort of priming for the paint.
I also glued some paper behind the hip armour so it would be a bit more sturdy. It doesn't show in these pictures but it is there.
And the next step was to paint it. For this I chose acrylics for they dty fast and look good.
As a base coat I used black paint with a hint of gesso.
And then I tried to mimic the reference images the best I could.
And here are compared the steps I made:
From left to right:
The final armour
Just the craft foam and camping mattress and the paper patterns I made:
Over all in one piece it took about two hours (because I'm such a lazy ass to do these) and because the glue took some time to dry completely.
But I'm really satisfied with the results :3
These are my first armour parts I've ever made!
These are so elastic so I don't think these will break easily. And the glueing part made it a lot hardr than I've ever thought! Totally worth for trying :)
