Day 4: Male & Female Breastplate Detailing

We did a little more fine tuned shaping of the female breastplate with our heat gun, we found it works much better to heat gun the smooth side, the bumpy side is much more likely to get a little burned and distorted, which is bad since that's the side you see!

Well now that I have a female breastplate that I am somewhat satisfied with it was time to add in the detailing.  Can I tell you how nervous we were??!!  It took all this time to get a decent breastplate and we are going to go at it with a freaking dremmel tool?!First we fired up the projector and drew the lines on with a Sharpie permanent marker.

Well within a minute my husband Trevor had messed up a line already.  He is very precise, but it turns out the breasts were not exactly the same size.  From far away you can't really tell, but if you start drawing exactly even lines on them, then it is noticeable.  He was in a panic, but luckily I clued him in on a secret which I will now share with you.  It is very easy to remove sharpie with plain old rubbing alcohol.

So we got some better lines drawn on and thank god we managed to dremmel it without messing it up! I am pretty pleased with our result!

Next we went back to the male breastplate and continued to add detail lines to it as well, and added the next 2 pieces to the chest and stomach.  Our technique of sanding away foam and adding the thin craft foam for the black areas is going really well.