Costume creation cutouts

[Akimoto873]

Greetings!

I have recently gained a huge interest in costume crafting, mainly with EVA Foam. I was wondering if anyone know of any good sources of armor "cutout"-blueprints I could try out
I am fully prepared to create these blueprints myself, however, since I am a newbie at this I feel it would be best for me to learn how to properly use cutouts before making them myself.

I would like to make "Sith armor", which will be worn under a black sith robe (full robe). Because I use glasses, I do not intend to make any full mask, although I am considering making a half mask.

Thank you for any input!

[B1ondeange1]

Pepakura is one way to go- its basically a form of making stuff from card or paper which you tape or preferably glue together folded pieces to create just about anything. With a little modification it works well for foam pieces too. You can download the viewer program which allows most of the functions but doesn't allow you to save any work, or you can pay for the designer program which is fully featured. Then you can download pepakura patterns which exist for a lot of different stuff- we are slowly working as time permits on halo Spartan armour from pepakura designs.

if i wasn't on my phone id link you to some basic armour i did for my partner using a pepakura pattern which i then modified. If you google pepakura followed by whatever type of armour you want to make you should get plenty of hits. There's a guy who has tutorial vids out there on iron man armour he made out of foam using pepakura, interesting and useful to watch

[Akimoto873]

Thanks alot!