Hilde's thigh armor

Here's a brief writeup of my technique for building the vacuum form blanks for the thigh armor! I'm hoping to use similar methods for most of the arm and leg pieces.

Hilde's wolf pauldron - part 1

Since Hilde's armor has a total of 8 wolves to be sculpted (helmet, 2 shoulders, 3 belt, 2 spear), I thought I'd kick off the actual armor-building on the wolf shoulders.

Nightmare - Soul Edge I

So we in the Corps are pretty big fans of starting with a character's weapon and working backwards to the outfit itself. Weapons are a good way ease into a big project but have some early, tangible results to make you feel like you're getting somewhere.

Usually these weapons don't look like this, though:

6 feet of crystal sword. Well. Okay. Not so much of a quick, early project, but you gotta start somewhere.

As discussed in the initial post, my plan is to sculpt the hilt and cast it in foam, use plexiglass and polycarbonate for the blade, and hold it all together with a wooden shaft. Lets see some progress, shall we?