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Also, check out the amazing creations submitted to our Foamsmith Photo Gallery. We have several builds for our foam props, costumes, and techniques listed below. Also, our collection of foam crafting tools and materials are gathered here.

They Call it The Porcupine! Textured Foam with 3D Printed Stamps? Awesome Foamsmithing Trick! Let's Make Foam Helmets! How to make Astrid's Dragon Helmet! Experimenting with Foam Clay! And with the handy flashlight feature, find the most elusive of herbs in the densest of forests. Red, blue and green are used in the inside of the sickle. Green is also used in the stem of each leaf and whites are use in the bottom of the staff and serve a flash light function.

The stems and the in side of the sickle are made of clear pvc tubing usually use in aquaria. This tubing is made more stiff an less clear by filling it with hot glue.

I covered the pvc tubing on one side with cloth. With is glued and stitched to the tubing and this provides a good base for sticking the foam on. And a 7cm deep birdwing shield. Built by Pieter, painted by his daughter! The shield measures 70cm. It is lined with 5mm of foam, 1 cm at the edge, and has two sheets of floor boarding as core. Pieter from Arcana is back at it again: these swords were shaped using a belt sander with 80 grit.

He notes that this left the surface to coarse and looking a bit pitted. The swords are first painted with black latex and then sealed using plastidip. After this sealing, the swords were primed for any available kind of paint. In this case Pieter airbrushed heavily diluted silver and bronze metallic model paint. Then the swords were sealed again with plastidip. Ready for battle. Another view of the sword. Leather frog! Matching sidearm! The airbushed blades.

Pieter from Arcana in the Netherlands presents his luminescent arrows. There are several types of light-up-nocks most of them are usually bow string operated. The one thing you should pay special attention to is size, most light-up-nocks are 6.

Luckily most arrow shafts that have a insert to accommodate the changing of the arrow head are of this size. It screws in the arrow shaft via the insert. And can be made extra safe with some glue. The build is very simple, replace the arrowhead and replace the nock.

Cutting mats can be picked up at pretty much any hobby store from the Games Workshop on the high street to the super secretive model railway hideouts. I picked mine up from Hobbycraft , and it fits on the pull out keyboard tray of my desk. Bear in mind that these have to be laid flat when you use them, so make sure yours will fit somewhere before you buy it.

Heat Gun The staple of fake armoursmiths everywhere! Foam only needs heating gently before it softens, so you only need a basic heat gun rather than a portable super nova. Contact Adhesive If you thought the choices for foam were confusing, prepare for a whole new level of goggle-eyed wonderment. Online tutorials were no help because they all seemed to call it different things like barge cement, for example , and even when I asked people I knew who worked with foam, I was still deeply confused.

I use the Wickes own brand as standard, and purchase it in ml tins, although I still find the tubes a little easier to work with. My respirator, not my jumper. Sand Paper For cleaning up those joins and smoothing out edges.

This is the cheaper manual version, but I heartily recommend a dremel, because no one has so much free time that they can waste it all sanding down foam by hand. Metal ruler Your super sharp blade will shred a plastic ruler, and good straight lines are damnably hard free hand.

Dremel Ehrmagherd, one of my favourite tools. It makes cleaning up joins and rounding foam edging an absolute snap. Easy to get hold of, and simple to start using. This means teeny bits of foam in your ears, your mouth, up your nose, and rather more painfully, in your eyes. Grab a cheap set of plastic safety goggles to save yourself the trauma of standing in front of the bathroom mirror trying to dig foam flecks out of your tear ducts.

This stuff is almost as bad as glitter.