Okay, after a riveting two hours of cropping, resizing, and uploading...It's time for another update!
The Vest! It's an everlast sleeveless sweatshirt that I bought for $13.50.
The vest with all of the velcro tabs. I am not really happy with how they are holding, but it might be better after they have a chance to cure a little...
The jumpsuit with the plates attached.
Weathering the blaster. The black spraypaint I was using didn't really mix with the water, so it worked sorta like a wash and a drybrush. That's a real timesaver!
Damaging the armor plates. No special effects involved...I really smashed them up. I used: both sides of a claw hammer, a two prong seeder, and a spear. Yeah. Actually, the spear was pretty disappointing as it just left a nasty deep spot that hardly shows. Plus it made a weird check mark scratch on the left plate that is mostly my fault. I still feel comfortable blaming the spear though.
Using the copper pen to color the scratches. I was going to create a whole backstory to explain it...but the truth is the store only had copper leaf pens.
The skull on the pauldron. I kinda like it.
Right side view.
Left side view.
Ok. So, that's the status as of this afternoon. I'm not real happy with the functionality of the velcro (I know, I know, everyone on every thread already told me so). Plus, my collar is too curved so it has to sit too low, and my pauldrons are too flat. I was originally going to mount them flat on top, ala football shoulders, but the collar got in the way.