Generals' Armor. The whole set took a record breaking of 5 days to make; consisting of 2 soldiers' armor, a Generals' armor, and a Generals' helmet. The client was one of them theater people at SMU. Lucky! This was a joint project with another prop maker whom we all call Osaka.
These were made entirely of rubber and plastic. We really went and cut out each of the scales and attached them one by one. The scale plates at the chest are tied piece by piece much like the way the actual armor was made.
Lesson learnt; "The best way to fake something, is to make it as real as possible of course".
We got tired of poking holes through each of the plastic plates so BaoShin came up with the idea of using a solder gun to burn a hole trough. It worked really well; In fact we were able to burn through a whole stack of the plates at a go.
I kinda recall we sold the whole set for a total of $450 ($250, and 2 X $100). We got a little too engrossed in making the armors that every now and then we accidently made the Generals' armor as a $450 standard.
Yeah, thats my body over there.
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O___O Wow, that armour looks insanely detailed, you're very patient!! Great work!!
Put on some good music, have some good snacks, matter of time!
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