Steampunk Pauldron Armor

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Started off planning to make the armor out of craft foam, and free hand drew/cut out 5 pieces. While trying it on, the foam tore so decided to 3D print the pieces in PLA. Took pictures of each craft foam piece with Adobe Capture and converted them to SVG files. Uploaded to Tinkercad and converted them to STL files. After 3D printing, fine sanded and shaped each to fit my arm (by heating in boiled water). Ended up only needing the first 4 pieces. Spray painted armor with copper spray paint, and fine sanded to rough/age them. Added a gauge, gears, corrugated tubing (Rub ‘n Buffed with Spanish copper), and a vial bracer. Attached armor to a leather bracer with brown leather and buckles. Saw a model steam engine and thought it would be awesome to incorporate into the left arm armor. Added 2 pieces of 3D printed PLA armor to the left arm with holes added to the first piece to connect the engine lower frame. Sanded, molded, and painted same as other armor. Attached corrugated tubing to the engine hose barb and connected to a hose barb on the back piping. Check out my blog for more details on this and other steampunk gear I made for my full costume: https://www.perfuzion.com/gearing-up-for-the-pandemic/