The reverse side of EVA foam is useless and won’t stick to anything, including nylon webbing, however using a method recommended by Punished Props I got the webbing to stick to the foam like., um., glue! You first score the foam with a sharp blade, blast the score lines with a heat gun to open them up, and then stick the webbing to the foam with hot glue. As you could probably see from the pictures already, the foam buckle isn’t functional. The actual functional belt in this costume was two lengths of nylon webbing, fastened to the backplate and connected with clip buckle at the front. The rest of the belt has a dirty metal-type look, so I used a dry brush to apply a thin coat of silver mixed with raw sienna. For the dark sections I just used black acrylic paint, and around the circles on the backplate I used a watered-down black ink to add shadow and depth effects. EVA foam just soaks up paint and doesn’t look good if you don’t use a primer such as Plasti Dip or PVA first. The Plasti Dip coat helped smoothe the uneven parts and provided a good surface primer. For the one that I think gave the best results, I first coated everything in Plasti Dip, then did two coats of dark grey spraypaint. I’ve made this belt twice and both times I used different painting methods. I made them 2.5″ high to match the ends of the back plate. As you can see in the picture above, they gradually got smaller in size. I drew up a 8×2 grid like on the blue mat in the above picture and cut out 16 squares. Divide this new number by 2 (for each side), and then by 8. Take your hips/waist measurement, and subtract from this number the length of the backplate and the length of the buckle. There are 8 squares on both sides, and they gradually get thicker from the front to the back. The easiest parts to construct were the squares connecting the back plate and the buckle, but they are also hard to get right if you want a belt that fits comfortably and has no gaps. The backplate and buckle before painting. Other foamsmiths have recommended using Barge cement to join pieces of foam, but I found that this water based glue was just as effective, is easy to apply, and the smell doesn’t lower your Intelligence statistic. I used a water based contact cement to join everything together. The buckle was made made with two layers of the 10mm EVA foam, which was also curved slightly with the heat gun and the edges were rounded off.The dimensions of the buckle is 5″ by 3″, any larger than this and it gets in the way when you sit down. I also used a dremel with a sandpaper attachment to round off the edges and slightly taper the ends. I used the heat gun to soften the foam and bend it to better conform to the shape of my back. You can see in the picture below the pieces that were made form the craft foam, and in the following picture it shows everything layered together. It also very difficult to make smooth and neat indented shapes in EVA foam, so building-up the shapes is a better option that cutting them out. The actual backplate in the game is a 3D texture on a flat surface, but rather than just paint this texture onto a large piece of foam I decided to build a proper 3D model using the thin craft foam. It is 2.5″ wide at the ends and 6-7″ wide at the middle, and I constructed it using the 15mm EVA foam and the craft foam. The backplate makes up about 30% of the cicumference of the belt, so if you have a 36″ waist it will be 11-12″ long. In the background is one I prepared earlier. Acylic paint (black, silver or grey, and a light brown colour)Īll the foam pieces that make up the belt.EVA foam (I used a selection of 10mm and 15mm thickness). This article is about how to make a Fallout 3 Vault Jumpsuit belt using craft foam, glue and nylon webbing. Our website has already published articles on how to plan the denim jumpsuit and a Pip-boy. These are: a blue denim jumpsuit, a Pip-boy 3000, the zipper strap over the left shoulder, and a belt. Although there are many variations of the jumpsuits worn by the inhabitants of Vaultec vaults, and many people like to customise their jumpsuit costumes, the basic numbered jumpsuit the Lone Wanderer wears is made up of four parts. The Vault 101 Jumpsuit is a favourite costume amongst Fallout fans and cosplayers. How to Make a Pip Boy 3000 Replica Prop - June 1, 2015.How to Make a Fallout 3 Vault Jumpsuit Belt - October 12, 2015.
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