hey guys I'm Lawrence from Iwood
cosplay and today's video I'm going to
show you how I made clouds shoulder pad
or rather the clouds shoulder pad right
here so I'm going to start off with my
cloud pattern which you can get in my shop
for this project I'm going to use some
Barge contact cement we're going to need
some utility knives and some thumbtacks
that you can pick up at the dollar store
thumbtacks are great for other projects
I'm sure you'll find some use for them
next you'll need a dremel and some
various bits I'll have the name for
these bits in the description down below
we're going to use two different
thickness of foam five millimeter foam
and a 5/16 inch foam so I'm going to
start off by pinning down my pattern
onto the foam in this case I'm gonna
use a silver sharpie this is a tip I
picked up an evil Ted and I think TNT
cosplay also sends you a silver sharpie
when you order foam from them. this allows
you to see your pattern when you're
working with black foam now I'm going to
use a steel ruler to cut out the
straight edges of the pattern on the foam
Now take your time when cutting the
curved portion of a pattern making sure
its blade is 90 degrees above when
you're cutting it out
now I'm gonna do the same thing and
use the pattern to transfer onto 5/16 inch
thick foam
once that's done I'm going to make this
detail on the leftover five millimeter
foam I've had from earlier. so once you
have that trace I'm gonna get a steel
ruler to make these lines that you see
here
so I've already cut out the details but
here I'm gonna use an exacto blade or
utility knife to score in the details
that we made earlier
scoring the details with an exacto
blade is going to make them pop when you
hit it with the heat gun here I'm going
to use my Dremel with a diamond bit tip
to add depth to the detail I just made
lastly I'm going to use a circular
polishing disc to add a bevel to the
corners of this detail hopefully you can
see the details I made with dremel let
me focus it for you now this part is
important make sure you flip the pattern
around and make this score line I'm going
to do this for all four pieces in come back and
score the lines with my knife
this allows you to make that flap on
collar while using one continuous piece
of foam
once that's done I'm going to use my
heat gun to heat seal the foam
now it's time to heat form the shoulder
pad here I just used a round Styrofoam
ball on a roll of tape
you might have to come back and heat seal
these foam pieces up again if it cools
down for too long
now I'm ready to apply the contact
cement to the edges of the foam pieces
in my other video I use dap contact
cement but in this video I use barge
contact cement just to show you that
they both work fine make sure you apply
an even coat to both sides of the
pattern and give it some time to dry
once the contact cement is dry I'm going
to put pieces together starting from the
edge and carefully lining up the
registration marks
once you get to this end of the shoulder
pad you want to make sure you pull the
collar up towards you creating that
flare before you put the pieces together
and there you have it the bottom piece
of clouds shoulder pad and that's the
flare I was talking about and I'm gonna
do the same thing with the other pieces
carefully lining up the registration
marks and keeping that flare in the
collar here I'm gonna use my dremel with
the polishing wheel to smooth off the seam of
the two pieces once I have the two
pieces made I'm going to stack them
together giving that step detail that we
see Cloud's shoulder pad have. here I'm
positioning top layer of the foam piece
once I have that in proper position I'm
going to pin that down with some needles
then im gonna come back with a silver
sharpie and outline the outside of your
popped area that way when I take it off I'll
know where the contact cement should be
applied
once you applied your contact cement and
its dry you're ready to put the pieces
together
I like to start on this side of the
shoulder pad and then work my way around it
you might have to use some push and pull, but with some patience you can get this step
just right now we're finally ready for
the details here I'm just using some
general super glue and applying that
hexagon detail that we made earlier also
you want to make sure that midline is
horizontal when you put on this detail
i want to apologize it's a little dark but
here I'm just using a sanding drum on my
dremel and pushing in the details that I
made earlier these are the three dots
that sit on top of the hexagon pattern
now I can use those thumbtacks I was
talking about earlier here Im just using
some superglue to make sure that the
thumbtacks won't come out later and
there you have it the details of
thumbtack makes are my favorite go to
thing for a rivet look. now I just have to
do that for the other side now for this
last part im using the triangle with circles on each corner to ensure that
the screws are equal distance from each
other now when you line this up one make
sure these two circles are along the
curve of the shoulders that doesnt make sense
I'll show you later
not for this last part you're gonna need
a drill press so I just bought this new
drill press just for you guys there's
one I left my big drill press at the big
shop and two I need to show you guys how
to do this now the screws I used for
this one have the code BDD you can get at Home Depot but honestly you can use
whatever screws you like
so instead of pushing the drill into the
foam piece we're going to hold the
foam piece and push up against the
drill of course you want to be careful
here and if you don't feel safe doing
this and please don't do this when
you're doing this you want to be very
careful of course especially your
fingers once you have these three holes
drilled you're ready to put them screws
in and once again if you don't feel
comfortable doing this please please get
someone that's more experienced and
comfortable to do it for you
so once you have the screws in there's
one thing that I forgot to mention
you're going to need these nuts to have
the same size as the screw of course and
then screw those on so that the screws
don't come off the foam pieces so this
is what I was talking about earlier how
these two screws have to be along the
curve of the shoulder you see how these
two screws are lined up around the curve
of the shoulder and there's this third
one that's behind the shoulder pad okay
so that concludes part one of cloud's
shoulder pad stick around for part two
where I try a different technique and
get this corroded look on the shoulder
pad I've never done before so and it
came out pretty decent so I'm excited to
show you guys how I did that
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