How to Make a Domed Foam Shield. DIY Wonder Woman/ Captain America Cosplay Shield
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2017
- Learn how to make a really strong, light, cosplay shield out of EVA foam.
In this video I show an excellent way to form EVA foam floor mats into a smooth dome by using an exercise ball, some cling wrap, tape and contact cement. This makes a shield that is the perfect shape for a Captain America shield, or a Wonder Woman shield.
I only show how to shape the foam in this video, but if you are going to etch lines into your foam shield, I recommend drawing them while the foam is still flat. It's so much easier!
So, when you need that perfect prop for your Wonder Woman Costume, make it yourself, and get a super amazing result!
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Hey, I just released an updated video showing how to do this process without a hot car!! Watch it here: bit.ly/cap-shield
I’d love to see a complete video on the detailing of the shield. Awesome work!
If you don't want to drill through your ruler for any reason, use a loop of string (when stretched out flat the right length) instead.
That's what I was thinking.
Yeah, or just use a ruler that comes with holes. Most rulers already have a hole at the tip and/or in the middle. It doesn’t even have to be one that stretches all the way across the foam. As long as it’s at least *_half_* the length you want, it should work fine.
Hannah Jones exactly what I was thinking!
Yeah, or just a long stick of wood!
@@utubewillyman yeah! Like a ruler.
*rich girl pose*
Ohhohoho-ho!
I would really love to see you make videos about how you paint your props. That shield and the steampunk gauntlet are really beautiful!
This technique is brilliant!! Thank you for sharing your awesome tips! Your wonder woman shield is looking incredible as well!
Thanks! I was just checking out your channel, you've got some sweet builds own there, nice work!
Lost Wax Woah! Thank you! That is a huge compliment coming from you, you're stuff is awesome! I would love to coordinate a collaboration with you sometime if you'd be interested! :)
That could be cool, send me an email sometime and we'll see what we can figure out:)
Lost Wax For sure! Will do!!
The cardboard trick blew me away :') that's big brain stuff.
Great tutorial! Low tech and very accessible
Oh you smart coockie! I particularly appreciate the cardboard tip for the contact glue. I wish I had tought of that before the catastrophic failur that was my last project.
love that cardboard tip, about to make our big shield and loved the tips and hope we get a hot day soon!!
Man I love all of your techniques. They are so useful to make my own costumes. Thank you for making this channal.
This is brilliant, thank you I have been racking my brain on an easy way to make a shield.
He's a costume making genius!
Wow, thank you! This will be great for my Captain America costume!
That's brilliant. Such a great result.
ooh, I love this! maybe I'll make an amazon trail shield this way
Brilliant, I can use this for Solaire costume!
no puede ser te quedo increible!!!
Thanks man. This has saved me soo much time and worry.
Who knew that exercise ball I never used could help in such a way.
Genius!
Glad it helped!
I'm really looking forward to the build video for the rest of the shield! It looks awesome!
Nice, thanks now I can use that ball for something and thanks again for your great videos.
What a brilliant solution with the ruler holes! 😲 I was like... What's he doing.... Oh!! Awesome!
Very cool new technique and I feel like I could give this a go :) 💚
Yeah, I have one ruler with holes all over it:) It's so simple, but really handy.
Awesome designs, a fan from Mexico
THANK YOU VERY MUCH is a easy tutorial love my shield
Hello. I want to buy your pattern for mechanical arm but on the link i push "buy now" and nothink happends. Cant you give me one right link Plees. Thank you
Cool technique!!!
Man, could have used that contact cement tip a few weeks ago. Curse CZcams for not notifying me of your video!
Also, the detail on that shield is sublime. Absolutely gorgeous.
Glad you like the shield! If you want to make sure to be notified of new vids, make sure to click the bell beside the subscribe button:)
Awesome video! I may have to do this for my daughter if she can ever make her mind up what she wants to be for Halloween ;)
When I have to sand down the "diamond" side of a foam mat, I usually cut some shallow cross sections into the area I am going to glue to give the glue more to stick to. It's always worked well for me.
I like your Shield enough that I am actually going to subscribe good job
How did you do the details on the Wonder Woman shield?
If you do the outside heating method instead of in the car, take some Aluminum foil and make a surface area a bit bigger than the shield. then tape the edges in line with the sheild so that there is a little space between the shield and the aluminum; this will create an oven like effect and heat your shells faster. I don't think it will melt the plastic.
Wow..that method is genius!!!
Thanks!
making your shield with my son for his year 7 history assignment....thanks for an awesome video
Nice technique!
Excellent! Thank you!
You are welcome!
Thanks for the ruler trick! You got a like for that ;)
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great tips! :)
Wow that's awesome
Got a video on how to paint the shield?
you are tooooo smart!♡
Chris, I wish you'd upload more frequently, I love your videos, they're fun but also very helpful, you deserve way more subscribers
I wish I'd upload more frequently too:)
you should make a video wearing everything you have made lol
I love your JtHM shirt😍😍
Amazing!!!
Clever clever buddy buddy
Love your technique with the ball. I made my daughter's foam shield a year ago and I used a heat gun and used a plastic garbage can lid to shape it. It worked about as well as your Captain America shield.
Nice idea to use the garbage can lid- For my Captain America shield I used a beanbag chair and pushed the disc into the chair. Works O.K. but this way is so much sturdier.
Hey I've wached all your videos and I'm in to steampunk were did u get the eye pach on your pirate hat and jacket videos and where did u get it from
super cool
parabéns por ser você
Super Nice..!!
Très beau bouclier mais dommage il n'y a pas la suite ou comment tu a fait tout les dessins qui sont sur le bouclier !
Thx this is going to go perfect my Assassins creed origins costume
This is really fantastic. Do you have any guides/tutorials on how to do the etching?
Not for this exactly, though I do often etch foam in my projects. I like to use the back end of my scalpel- it is rounded and a couple mm thick. Just press it into the foam to create indentations.
l would very much like to see how you made that beautiful design around the top of your shield. Also, what can you use if you don't have an inflatable medicine ball?
I'll make another vid showing making the design, I have used a beanbag chair set outside, and keep pressing the foam into the shape you want. You won't get quite as significant of a dome, but it will give you some.
Nice. I wasn’t sure how I was going to make a perfectly round shield for the Captain America/Deathstroke cosplay I want to do. Does this shaping process work with other shield types too?
Yep, any two layers of foam you glue together will hold the shape they are in, for example, I made a knight shield that had a curve on the vertical axis, and it worked the same way.
beautiful shield! but would this technique work for any type of foam? Because I bought this really thin foam from lens mill store that I really wanted to use, but I’m not sure if it’ll work and I don’t want to waste it...
I don't know if it'll work for any type of foam- and it it's quite thin, it won't be strong enough to hold it's shape properly.
continue?
much your video, I liked
Do you know an approximate diameter of the exercise ball you used? I just got one secondhand and I think it may be too small for the right curvature.
I don't actually, but I think it was about the same size as our door openings....
I wanted to remake my Rose Quartz sheild I think you just gave me the right technique tu do it Thanks :D
Nice!
Nice man
Your technique is greate! Thank you! We use your thechnique to create some steampunk stuff for the theater play! Greetings from Ukraine!
Awesome!
Can't I wrap the inner and outer shield at the same time? Or does the inner part not need to be dome-i-fied?
Yes, you definitely can do both at the same time. Just remember to do the inner disc with the texture facing out.
Cool T-shirt
Great tip, thanks for sharing. How did you actually make the shield? Was it freehand or laser cut?
It's all freehand, and the outside v shapes are hot glue.
Cool-what about the rest?
I'm confused as to what you're asking when he CLEARLY shows step by step how he made it lol
You clever clever man :D
Hello, how have you hardens the shield? And how made you the forms above?
The shield isn't hardened, it's just foam that is painted.
Where would one be able to purchase an inflatable medicine ball????
Any idea on how to make a foam baseball bat? :)
I live in the UK so got any tips for big balls rainy days. Ta
Not yet, but I have some ideas I need to try out.
Do you have a template for the pattern on the shield?
im am also wanting to know this
how did you make the patterns on the shield?
For the star shape, I used a thin flat edge to compress the lines in the foam. The V shapes on the outer rim are made by applying a line of hot glue.
You are so fantastically talented. Dunno if the sun gets hot enough in my part of Canada, and the warm part of the year is over. Do you suppose a hair dryer might work?
hair-dryer, or a heat gun if you are careful- heat is heat, after all...
If your going to use a hairdryer it might make sense to make a box enclosure for the piece so that the heat is even and it shouldnt take as long to heat up a smaller area. Cardboard should do fine for structure and its a decent insulator.
Would you recommend scoring lines to be heated before or after the ball ! Awesome job !!
I don't score my lines and then heat with heatgun like most do. I just go over them with a pen until there is a good solid valley in the foam. I think you'd probably have to do it before and after heating because the heat will release some of the stress.
Lost Wax awesome !! Thank you
Thank you for this! I currently use Barge. What type of water-based contact cement do you use? I did not see it in your materials list link, but apologize if I missed it.
The one I used on this was Lepage low odour contact cement. I'm not sure if that's a Canadian company though. It's alright, but has room for improvement. It could definitely be stronger- I only use it on large surfaces, I don't think it would handle edge gluing foam. If you've got proper lung protection, I would stick with Barge though.....
Thank you! Great videos and content in general, BTW!
@@rmoosepig Thank you very much!!
Omg love you
I can haz Boromir's shield!
I'm finding it difficult to get EVA Foam in India... Can I use the EVA Foam in yoga mats for craft work? Reply please!
hi, you should be able to use EVA foam yoga mats.
Another awesome tip..will be using this tip for sure... would this technique work with a heat gun at all ?
I'm not totally sure... This technique relies on the fact that you are heating up the whole surface at the same time, whereas with a heat gun, you can generally only do a small section at a time. I think it could be done if you have a bit of patience, and heat it all up gradually.- Just try not to melt the plastic wrap.....
Lost Wax ... I see what you mean..just trying to think of a way to achieve this on those less then sunny days 😊
Yeah, I agree, it would be good to have an alternate technique that would work well when it's cold.
It would work with a heat gun, however as Lost Wax mentions you need to be careful how you go at it.
Something to try that I have down is after covering your bust or ball or whatever shape you are foaming the foam too is covered in cling wrap and tape, press tin foil over top to act as a barrier between. It helps deflect SOME heat and can heat up your foam a bit more quickly from both sides. But whenever working with heat, be careful!
Guau que bonito 😻😻😻😻😻😻
Has anyone tried resistol 911 glue on eva foam
I’m super late... but could you use a heat gun to speed up the process of shaping the foam instead of setting it outside? Just wondering! Thanks! :)
I haven't tried it yet, but I think it could work- just depends how much heat cling wrap can handle I guess....And how careful you are with the heat gun. I'll have to give it a try.
How did the dome-in-a-dome design retain the curve long term?
It's retained the curve really well, still looks the same as when I made it!
@@LostWax AWESOME! I've got some foam in my car RIGHT NOW! excited to try it. My biggest concern is getting the paint and teachings right. I got your templates, thanks for those!
Heh, thanks man. Now I have an idea for my Macedonian Phalangite shield.
Im Macedonian and i have done the phalanx cosplay it turned out great
I love steampunk!
sigh this vid came a week to late for me T^T
thanks anyway chris for this great way of curving foam ^^
Awww, sorry.
Do you have a post somewhere of how you painted it ?
I actually didn't film the painting part for some reason, not sure why, so sadly I don't have a video. If I remember correctly, I used the same technique I use on most of my projects, where I rub a little metallic paint over a black base coat. I think I used DecoArt metallics "pewter" for the darker areas.
Lost Wax I watched your Wonder Woman head band video. I think that's probably the technique.
But what if you live in a place where there is almost no sun? What technique would you suggest then?
I haven't tried yet, but I think you could use a heat gun and slowly work around the disc to form it.
Lost Wax Would a hairdryer work as well? I'm fairly new at crafting and I don't have a lot of different tools to work with.
totally useful for the shield i wanna make, same but smaller and i mean very small since it's goblin slayer's shield.
this is a really great method mad thanks a lot, i was thinking of heating than molding it myself manually but i didn't thought about using rubber balls, also do you think there are any substitutes for something to use other than rubber balls? cuz i don't have that currently
Anything round with the diameter you need would work. You can also think about using the inside curve of something, like if you have a pot lid or something that is domed.
@@LostWax noted, thanks a lot for the tip man. im gonna try using some cooking tools now cause some has a rounded part on them, keep up the good videos man your ideas are genius
"I call this one big ball hot sun" same
So question; I’m from a country where it’s cool 99% of the year; can this be done with a heat gun as well?
Yep, check this out: bit.ly/cap-shield
How big are those tiles? Measurements
From memory, they are 2ft square.
Awesome thanks. I'm making giant saucepan lids 🥰
Of course! Everyone needs giant saucepan lids!
@@LostWax ok I learned something good. I couldn't get water based contact adhesive in time but I found some spray on contact adhesive for sticking flooring. It was 4 bucks and worked super well.
What size is that ball? Want to get one, largest ones are 65 meters and 75 meters. Will either of those work for this method? By the way this is a genius method!
That's a really good question, and I don't actually know the answer. I think I'd go with the larger one, if it's too small, you'll have a hard time getting the foam to curve enough and you'll get wrinkly edges. ( I am assuming the sizes are cm, not meters, otherwise, your ball won't even fit in your house:)
@@LostWax2 Yes cm, and thank you
That one time you actually like California's summer temperatures.
But how'd you do the front?
I'll make another video showing how I made that part, but basically, I traces the pattern on and indented it with a pen/ spoon handle as I did in my mini top hat video here: czcams.com/video/zoN4K9wLi6M/video.html
The v's are made from hot glue, and the part in the middle of the v's is just cut from foam.
Do you sell the shield ??? Can I order a shield please let me know thank you
Sorry, I don't sell my creations. But it wouldn't be too hard to make yourself!
Can i use a heat gun instead.
Yep, check out this tutorial- czcams.com/video/PoHQf1WYzSE/video.html
damn i need to use this
Wow, that's a great idea, but could you please show us how you painted it?
Sadly I didn't take any footage of the painting... It's a similar technique I use in most of my painting, rubbing the metallic colours on with my finger.You can see it in my knight armor video: czcams.com/video/3ajOJivJisg/video.html
@@LostWax Thank you
What is the size of your shield
53 cm Diameter