The Third Part of the suit,The shoulder balls and chest armor, are now complete.

The chest plate and backpack are vacu-formed styrene plastic, painted and decaled. The shoulder balls master mold was made from a styrofoam ball and foam core, which was then covered in thixotropic silicone, and set to harden after a fiber-glass shell was added, the skin was then pulled off and filled with a two part urethane solution and painted (LEDs were added afterwards).

STATUS

Completed

the foam core master for the chest plate    on the vacuforming table

Vacuforming the chest plate

The Master inside of the styrene

the master and the vacuformed piece

dremeling out the chest plate

Designing the Backpack

The Prototype Backpack

The prototype backpack and final chest plate

Plastering the backpack

Plastering the backpack and shoulder ball

Masters of the shoulder ball, backpack, and nozzle for backpack

The Vacuformed backpack

Applying the thixotropic silicone

The shoulder ball covered in thixotropic silicone

Preparing for adding fiberglass

Adding the fiberglass shell

Painting the chest plate

The painted backpack

Making the fans for the backpack

The underside of the chest plate and backpack

Decalling the backpack and chest plate

The final arrangement of the backpack innards