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The basic construction is complete!
And you can see much clearer the size of the shield. Small for sure but very nimble and able to be carried with other items still in your hand. It worked great when I used it for sure and many others really liked how light it was. Its lightness does make it however not super good at deflecting larger weapons but thats the trade off you have to take. But for projectiles or one handed weapons? Works amazing :D
But as mentioned the basic construction is complete now. As the shield is all foam it doesn't need to have a safety layer of foam around it as well...its already all foam. But when I was looking at the layers like that on the side I was concerned constant whacks to the side could start to pull the layers apart. So thought something covering it would be good. And well...it would look nicer that way! So cutting some strips of 2mm EVA foam out we busted out the heat gun and the tape to heat up the foam for a minute before pressing it down on the shield. Using the tape to hold it down evenly and then setting it down for the foam to cool. Then removing it and starting on the next section. As you can see we did that four times to fit around the entire shield before cementing that all down and them boom!
It now looks much nicer and had protection for the edges and layers. Time to plastidip and add the last few elements then testing time!
And you can see much clearer the size of the shield. Small for sure but very nimble and able to be carried with other items still in your hand. It worked great when I used it for sure and many others really liked how light it was. Its lightness does make it however not super good at deflecting larger weapons but thats the trade off you have to take. But for projectiles or one handed weapons? Works amazing :D
But as mentioned the basic construction is complete now. As the shield is all foam it doesn't need to have a safety layer of foam around it as well...its already all foam. But when I was looking at the layers like that on the side I was concerned constant whacks to the side could start to pull the layers apart. So thought something covering it would be good. And well...it would look nicer that way! So cutting some strips of 2mm EVA foam out we busted out the heat gun and the tape to heat up the foam for a minute before pressing it down on the shield. Using the tape to hold it down evenly and then setting it down for the foam to cool. Then removing it and starting on the next section. As you can see we did that four times to fit around the entire shield before cementing that all down and them boom!
It now looks much nicer and had protection for the edges and layers. Time to plastidip and add the last few elements then testing time!
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1498 x 2004px
File Size 1.07 MB
For Amtgard yes. Weapons cant have wood or metal in them and if you want to use wood for a shield, like I did with my first shield, it has to have a minimun of 1 inch of foam between the wood and anyone who may run into it. All foam shields don't have that requirement but I took the '1 inch of foam rule' to mean that the shield needed to be at least one inch thick. Which is what I did here with the entire foam shield about an inch and 3/8s thick.
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