BOWSETTE COSPLAY PROGRESS
After soldering the grooves in th..
🕑 Added 2021-12-18 23:03:49 +0000 UTC
BOWSETTE COSPLAY PROGRESS
After soldering the grooves in the shell, I glued the foam spikes I made earlier onto the middle of each hexagon with contact cement. Once all the spikes were on, I cut out strips of 5mm EVA foam to create the edge of each spike.
Once a strip was cut out, I would trim the edges of one side of the strip with some scissors to create a beveled edge, then heat the strip up with a heat gun and roll the foam strip to add roundness to the edge that I trimmed. Once rounded, I would add contact cement to the bottom edge of each spike and the inside edge and bottom of each foam strip, and then glue them together and trim off any excess of the foam strip.
Once all of that was completed, I mixed together wood glue and water to start my primer layers. For this shell, I did a total of six layers of primer to give the foam shell the rigidity it needed and a smooth base layer for my paint. The water helps create thin layers and smoothness rather than just using the glue alone and helps avoid brush streaks. It also allows each primer layer to dry faster.
