Henchmen4Hire
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Post by Henchmen4Hire on Feb 27, 2017 5:15:58 GMT -5
I was thinking of printing belts and wondering if anyone here has tried it.
I'm thinking of printing on silver foil paper, laminating it, cutting out the shapes and gluing them to thin foam or pleather.
I think the foil paper would provide a metal effect for the plates. What do you think?
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Post by Hitman Bono on Feb 28, 2017 20:29:56 GMT -5
I've never handled foil paper, is it more foil...or paper?
I printed a few belts before, it was stuff from Japan like the Triple Crown. I used glossy photo paper, cut out the little pieces and superglued them onto the belt. Then I mixed in a little bit of sealer with a smidgen of super glue and went over the plates. I don't have pictures handy, but I made those f ckers in 2006. I last saw them in storage a little over a year ago and they look just as good now as the did then. Oh! I should mention that I just stripped parts off of the Jakks title belts and glued my pieces on those. I've seen others make titles using other things like you mentioned, and it's about 50/50 when it comes to the "looks good/sh tty" scale.
Regardless of what you end up using, be sure to take some pics and post 'em!
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Post by spydermonkey on Feb 28, 2017 20:56:59 GMT -5
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Post by Henchmen4Hire on Feb 28, 2017 21:20:35 GMT -5
I've never handled foil paper, is it more foil...or paper? I printed a few belts before, it was stuff from Japan like the Triple Crown. I used glossy photo paper, cut out the little pieces and superglued them onto the belt. Then I mixed in a little bit of sealer with a smidgen of super glue and went over the plates. I don't have pictures handy, but I made those f ckers in 2006. I last saw them in storage a little over a year ago and they look just as good now as the did then. Oh! I should mention that I just stripped parts off of the Jakks title belts and glued my pieces on those. I've seen others make titles using other things like you mentioned, and it's about 50/50 when it comes to the "looks good/sh tty" scale. Regardless of what you end up using, be sure to take some pics and post 'em! I think it's just paper with a layer of foil bonded to it, they make it so you can print on it normally with an inkjet printer, just have to give the ink some time to dry before touching it. I'll probably glue the printed plates to pleather then glue all that to the right thickness of foam. Sweet, that's the effect I was hoping for! Did you have to edit the color of the images in some way to accommodate the foil paper? Like, maybe adjust the transparency? |
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Post by Hitman Bono on Feb 28, 2017 21:37:40 GMT -5
Oh, that looks good spyder. Awesome.
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Post by spydermonkey on Feb 28, 2017 21:47:59 GMT -5
Thanks for the compliments. I actually done the artwork in photoshop and then printed on clear transparency film, the kind you use for over head projectors. Then glued that to gold foil cardstock, laminated and glued onto leather strap. I have the artwork for the NWA TV title, the WCW Tag belts, and have started on the IWGP Belt (the one held by AJ Styles). I am also working on making some etched belts, but its still in the early stages.
Thanks Again for the compliments
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Post by Henchmen4Hire on Feb 28, 2017 21:55:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the compliments. I actually done the artwork in photoshop and then printed on clear transparency film, the kind you use for over head projectors. Then glued that to gold foil cardstock, laminated and glued onto leather strap. I have the artwork for the NWA TV title, the WCW Tag belts, and have started on the IWGP Belt (the one held by AJ Styles). I am also working on making some etched belts, but its still in the early stages. Thanks Again for the compliments Ah cool. What do you use to glue the transparency film to the foil paper, so it dries clear? I'm going to start printing tests to get the shapes and sizes about right. Mainly I want to print a Women's NXT Championship belt that's a little smaller, and will probably do some others as I improve the process. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 0:29:25 GMT -5
Here are a couple I did, also have the NWA TV belt do you think could make any belt with this recipe? since you are having to sketch them I could see this being difficult at times. But if you think you could more, would you be interested in making more? I'd like to have a set of these.   |
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Post by spydermonkey on Mar 1, 2017 10:10:45 GMT -5
Here are a couple I did, also have the NWA TV belt do you think could make any belt with this recipe? since you are having to sketch them I could see this being difficult at times. But if you think you could more, would you be interested in making more? I'd like to have a set of these. Yeah, should be able to, depending on good reference pics. I'll see what I can do |
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Post by spydermonkey on Mar 1, 2017 10:13:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the compliments. I actually done the artwork in photoshop and then printed on clear transparency film, the kind you use for over head projectors. Then glued that to gold foil cardstock, laminated and glued onto leather strap. I have the artwork for the NWA TV title, the WCW Tag belts, and have started on the IWGP Belt (the one held by AJ Styles). I am also working on making some etched belts, but its still in the early stages. Thanks Again for the compliments Ah cool. What do you use to glue the transparency film to the foil paper, so it dries clear? I'm going to start printing tests to get the shapes and sizes about right. Mainly I want to print a Women's NXT Championship belt that's a little smaller, and will probably do some others as I improve the process. I use cLear superglue. Put a little in the middle and kind of smooth it to the outer edges |
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Post by Henchmen4Hire on Mar 2, 2017 14:31:59 GMT -5
Thinking about this a little more, I think it would be a good idea to cut belt shapes out of a credit card, then use that as a template for quickly cutting the shape out of pleather with a blade. Would be a lot easier than having to carefully, manually cut out the shapes.
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Post by D.B.K. on Mar 8, 2017 8:56:22 GMT -5
spydermonkey: those belts look incredible
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Post by spydermonkey on Mar 8, 2017 22:31:06 GMT -5
spydermonkey: those belts look incredible Thanks |
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Post by theMOESIAH on Mar 21, 2017 18:04:09 GMT -5
A good printed belt will ALWAYS be better than the plastic ones.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 6:26:34 GMT -5
I just print mine out on thin white magazine paper, take thin cardboard like the figures come with and glue it on top,to add thickness and realistic depth.Then cut it out and put some mod podge over it. cut out a thin piece of leather pleather orblack felt..w/e u prefer and glue it on.. they come out pretty good for something homemade.
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