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N7 Chest Plate: Part 3

After MANY attempts we settled on paint for the piece. It is a custom blend of 2 automotive paints: "Xotic" Platinum Pearl and Black Pearl. This mix is sprayed on over black paint.

The boobs each got a 4 piece aluminum treatment. The in-game model shows these parts as having a single reveal line across the...you know...middle...ish... area. AHEM. Well surfacing these round bits with only 2 pieces of aluminum wasnt feasible because aluminum only likes to bend on 1 axis at a time (If we owned a french wheel we could have tried to dish the material). Consequently I split the pieces into 4. A little artistic license. The N7 logo is coming soon as a birthday gift to Electric.

At this point we had used a black metallic paint that I HATED. Electric was satisfied but I thought it looked like fleckstone. It took me a lot of tests and trials to find something I was satisfied with.

You can see a little packing tape on those forearm pieces. That is protect from scratching.

-All the metal in these photos will get tinted a darker color later on.

N7 Shoulder Plates

The shoulder plates began with PVC pipe (which is a difficult task on its own). They turned out to be too narrow, so we attempted to widen them. My husband constructed the shoulder plates entirely by himself, it was a long process and they went through many iterations. We ended up deciding to complete them with sheet aluminium, which is very difficult to bent and shape. No welding was done with these pieces, the aluminum was cut to the exact size, refined on a belt sander and glued. We think they look pretty hot!

Before paint

Final version of the shoulder plates