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Step 3The Brand.
Flash has a lightning bolt on his chest, Superman his S: your superhero will need the same. Putting it on a breast plate will alter your body's outline, giving it the sort of broad-shouldered silhouette that is normally only provided by months in the gym or a quick dose of radioactive spider-venom.
Keep the logo clear and to the point - fists show strength, lightning speed or electrical powers etc. A good generic idea is to use the hero's initials. Use contrasting colours to make it stand out.
Using a sheet of corrugated card, make a flat breast-plate. It needs to be an inverted trapezoid - wide at the shoulders, tapering down to some point below the belt line. How far down you go is up to you, but it must go below the belt.
Two more pieces of card make shoulder-boards. Basically rectangular, but with a curved end to follow the line of your neck, duct-tape them onto the top of the breast-plate so that they can turn through ninety degrees and lay flat on top of your shoulders.
At the back of the suit, another trapezoid of card goes from the shoulder-boards (more duct tape at the joint), down the centre of your back. Again, it needs to finish below the belt line, but you may want to change the proportions to suit your style.
Using card and tape or staples, make a pair of loops on the inside of the breast plate, and one on the inside of the rear triangle. They should be at the belt line. Your suit will need a belt of some kind, threaded through these loops, to hold the breast-plate and backing piece in place. The nature of the belt is up to you - studded leather strap, length of anchor-chain or a bungee.
Captain Pinata
I couldn't decide what to call my hero - Captain Pinata or Pinataman. The logo swung it. A single letter "P" looks a bit odd, but I could turn "CP" into a decent monogram.
His breast-plate is properly-pinata-ry. I cut strips of crepe paper and glued them on with PVA. Working from bottom-to-top gave the desired pinata effect, so that each new strip hid the glued bit of the previous strip.
I did the same on the shoulder-boards, starting at the outside edges and working inwards.
I was going to prepare the logo on the computer, but my printer died. So, free-hand it was, glued over the strips of crepe.
The edges of the breast plate was a bit ragged, so I folded the strips over and glued them down.
After it all dried, the PVA had turned some of the crepe paper white, which didn't look nice, so I covered those with extra strips stuck on with clear tape.
Keep the logo clear and to the point - fists show strength, lightning speed or electrical powers etc. A good generic idea is to use the hero's initials. Use contrasting colours to make it stand out.
Using a sheet of corrugated card, make a flat breast-plate. It needs to be an inverted trapezoid - wide at the shoulders, tapering down to some point below the belt line. How far down you go is up to you, but it must go below the belt.
Two more pieces of card make shoulder-boards. Basically rectangular, but with a curved end to follow the line of your neck, duct-tape them onto the top of the breast-plate so that they can turn through ninety degrees and lay flat on top of your shoulders.
At the back of the suit, another trapezoid of card goes from the shoulder-boards (more duct tape at the joint), down the centre of your back. Again, it needs to finish below the belt line, but you may want to change the proportions to suit your style.
Using card and tape or staples, make a pair of loops on the inside of the breast plate, and one on the inside of the rear triangle. They should be at the belt line. Your suit will need a belt of some kind, threaded through these loops, to hold the breast-plate and backing piece in place. The nature of the belt is up to you - studded leather strap, length of anchor-chain or a bungee.
Captain Pinata
I couldn't decide what to call my hero - Captain Pinata or Pinataman. The logo swung it. A single letter "P" looks a bit odd, but I could turn "CP" into a decent monogram.
His breast-plate is properly-pinata-ry. I cut strips of crepe paper and glued them on with PVA. Working from bottom-to-top gave the desired pinata effect, so that each new strip hid the glued bit of the previous strip.
I did the same on the shoulder-boards, starting at the outside edges and working inwards.
I was going to prepare the logo on the computer, but my printer died. So, free-hand it was, glued over the strips of crepe.
The edges of the breast plate was a bit ragged, so I folded the strips over and glued them down.
After it all dried, the PVA had turned some of the crepe paper white, which didn't look nice, so I covered those with extra strips stuck on with clear tape.
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