Foamsmithing: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners helps you make beautiful, comfortable pieces of low-cost costume armor. Learn everything you need to know about making, painting, and wearing your eye-popping foam armor creations.

In this book, you will learn:

The basic tools and materials needed to turn your foam into true works of wearable art.

Basic fabrication techniques to design, plan and fabricate extraordinary pieces of costume armor.

Simple, low-cost methods to make foam armor out of easy-to-find foam mats.

How to create armor templates and put the foam pieces together.

How to paint your armor and how to add straps to it

How to use the popular Pepakura software to build 3D models with paper

Painting and weathering techniques that will bring your props to life

Just enough safety advice to keep you from losing body parts along the way

This book will be an important addition to your workshop library whether you are a novice or a seasoned builder with several projects under your belt.