Now we finish assembling the cardboard greaves then we apply the craft foam.

Part 1 of this tutorial is here

Now we are going to assemble the two halves of the greave together using velcro. It is perfect for this because you will be able to easily put the greaves on and take them off.

Put strips of velcro on the inside of the large piece like this.

Velcro is made of hooks and loops. The hooks are plastic like and the loops are soft like cloth.

The big greave piece gets strips of loops.

And put strips on the outside of the smaller piece like this.

This small greave piece gets the hooks.

Now you can assemble together the two parts of each greave like this - attaching the hooks to the loops.

There you go. This is how it looks like from the back. Looking good. At this point do some more curving of the cardboard with your dowel or pipe.

At this point you can try them on and trim them as needed to fit your legs.

Lets cover these pieces with craft foam. Spray on an even coat of adhesive. Pay particular attention to the edges of the cardboard. The edges are very susceptible to having the craft foam peel off so coat those edges good.

Now press it onto your sheet of foam. Or press the sheet of foam onto it. Notice the dashed yellow line in the picture. I ran the edge of the foam along that line. This is for a good reason. I will show you.

Now, the sheets of craft foam are not large enough to cover all of this big piece of greave in one shot. So we need to add another piece. We still need to cover a bit more. Shown by the arrow.

So, apply spray adhesive to the remaining cardboard, but don't get any adhesive on the purple craft foam! We cover the craft foam with a piece of paper (blue-greenish in the picture) Now we can spray that cardboard.

And then finish it with another sheet of craft foam.

Now trim away all the excess foam.

Now we apply craft foam to the other half of the greave. The smaller half. Apply spray adhesive to it and mask off with paper the velcro so you don't get adhesive on those strips.

Apply the craft foam.

And trim away the excess. Be sure to trim away the areas over the velcro so it can be used!

Velcro them together and try them on! Do some more curving of them as needed.

Let's continue with the tutorial and do the detail work and painting

Make a foam armor Knight's Helmet

I continue in my series of tutorials on how to make armor out of foam. And now we make the helmet. And a neat thing about this helmet is that the visor goes up and down.

Make a Foam Armor Knight's Helmet

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