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Step 7Plating up to your knuckles
Once all the fingers are done, you've got to slowly start covering the entire back of your hand.
This would be a great time to try on the glove and see how the fingers feel.
As you may have noticed, the knuckles of the gloves done necessarily match up with your knuckles. For this reason we are going to keep using relatively thing strips of plates until we reach our actual knuckle.
I chose to continue the spiky motif throughout the back of the hand. Since these pieces need to be made more precisely than the finger pieces, I made and test placed paper templates for each piece.
In order to make the paper templates, I started with a large rectangle of paper that was approximately the right size for a strip of the back of the hand. I put the paper across what I had on the glove, and snipped at the paper until it was the correct shape I wanted, and then I used it as a template and created the metal plates. This part is very tricky because you have 1 large piece that will have bends and folds in it, and everything needs to line up in order to keep the flow of the glove. This part just takes patience and precision, don't rush, make sure you have a good paper template before switching to you metal. Paper is cheaper and easier to fix / redo.
Keep the strips the same width as your finger plates until you make it to your real knuckles, and the curvature of your hand straightens out. It took me 2 thin strips to make it to my knuckles.
This would be a great time to try on the glove and see how the fingers feel.
As you may have noticed, the knuckles of the gloves done necessarily match up with your knuckles. For this reason we are going to keep using relatively thing strips of plates until we reach our actual knuckle.
I chose to continue the spiky motif throughout the back of the hand. Since these pieces need to be made more precisely than the finger pieces, I made and test placed paper templates for each piece.
In order to make the paper templates, I started with a large rectangle of paper that was approximately the right size for a strip of the back of the hand. I put the paper across what I had on the glove, and snipped at the paper until it was the correct shape I wanted, and then I used it as a template and created the metal plates. This part is very tricky because you have 1 large piece that will have bends and folds in it, and everything needs to line up in order to keep the flow of the glove. This part just takes patience and precision, don't rush, make sure you have a good paper template before switching to you metal. Paper is cheaper and easier to fix / redo.
Keep the strips the same width as your finger plates until you make it to your real knuckles, and the curvature of your hand straightens out. It took me 2 thin strips to make it to my knuckles.
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