Terabyte Props & Cosplay

Continuing today's theme of recreating Daredevil's armour pieces, this update covers his wrist guards and hand armour. Since they all use the same crafting techniques and paint job, I built these alongside my shoulder armour, so if all goes to plan the blog update for those will go live at the same time as this one!  After looking closely at screenshots from the show, I realised that Daredevil's wrist guards were a lot more detailed than I originally realised! The base layer was super simple: just a layer of craft foam cut into a trapezoid shape so that when it's wrapped around my wrist, one end will be slightly narrower than the other.  For the layered details on the narrow end of the gauntlets, I used cereal box card (adding some structural strength to the otherwise flimsy craft foam.) The details on the opposite end of the gauntlets were recreated with more craft foam, which is more of less the same thickness as the 4 layers of card. Finally, I glued everyth...