Since weight is an issue for most costumes, I decided on an experiment.
I just happen to have a few yards of carbon fibre hanging around (from previous motorcycle related projects) so I pulled a few molds and ghetto rigged a vac forming setup and pulled my first carbon armour piece. This piece is not flawless, and I would not show it raw, but the big savings will be weights, where the standard chest diamond in resin weighs 23 grams, this carbon piece barely tips the scale at 5 grams, if there is on average even just a 50% weight reduction I feel as though this is a win.
I have a chest piece in the vac now, will post pics of how it turns out and then a weight comparison there as well.
I just happen to have a few yards of carbon fibre hanging around (from previous motorcycle related projects) so I pulled a few molds and ghetto rigged a vac forming setup and pulled my first carbon armour piece. This piece is not flawless, and I would not show it raw, but the big savings will be weights, where the standard chest diamond in resin weighs 23 grams, this carbon piece barely tips the scale at 5 grams, if there is on average even just a 50% weight reduction I feel as though this is a win.
I have a chest piece in the vac now, will post pics of how it turns out and then a weight comparison there as well.