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[Lumdir]

Hi there. As the title I would like to craft a cosplay costume for Arthas, the Litch King or Alphonse Elric of Full Metal Alchemist. Wich you prefear?

The most important thing I wish achieve is a complete true-metal armor... no foam, no styrene, no cardboard... nothing such that!
The truly problem is that even if I have a lot of time, a skilled dad who wanna help me and a good friend skilled in modelling mold to get models, we really don't know where to start.

We also tought about fiberglass but I'm really stubborn about the metal material since will be 100 times better.

Someone of you can give me a good advice?
PS: when I say metal I mean a 1mm rigid metal sheet not tin since it gets dent.

Thank you very much.
Lumdir.

[melbadelony]

Alphonse Elric is just awsome!!!!!! enough said

[PepMaster]

Check the Anime>Fullmetal Alchemist Section. I've got the patterns for Al there. That should help you along the way.

[Lumdir]

Thank you for answering PepMaster.
I found the section you were talking about but before posting this thread I've looked for a metal tutorial and didn't found anything.

That's why I'm still looking for someone that could help!

[PepMaster]

To my knowledge, there have been people who have used pepakura but they used it for Metal Construction. They would put together large parts of the paper patterns, then trace to metal and weld together the parts.

[Darazan]

As far as metal armor construction, Alphonse certainly seems like the better choice, speaking that there's not much in the way of extraneous decoration on the armor, unlike Arthas'. While I do commend your efforts to make real armor, I would advise you to be sure you keep in mind the appropriate (and safe) wear of real armor. There is more to wearing plate than simply putting it on. If you haven't already, I would suggest doing some research as to the other clothing worn under armor that is used to both protect from having the metal directly on your skin and to tie the armor down to to keep it on you. Look at medieval armor guides as a start. I had actually found a website some time back about the proper wearing of armor in all its components, from underclothing to arming coats and the armor itself. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find it. I'm sure it's still out there, I just can't remember how I found it the first time.