Jimmy's robot hands and chinguard: a quick how-to

Okay so, recently someone asked again for how to make them, and so I decided to just write up a brief guide.

First off, the ones I made were on-the-cheap and created from what I had lying around. Keep this in mind when I list materials and methods, since my way might not be the best.

Starting with the gloves, what I did was I bought cheap elbow length gloves off Amazon. I got the pewter colored gloves from here www.amazon.com/Satin-Gloves-As… and then used a fabric marker (NOT A SHARPIE, sharpie fades really easily with wear) to draw on the markings. Here are some references for the hands--

Cartoon model reference--i.imgur.com/vgchN.jpg
Two screenshots--25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m52… 25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m52…

After that I sealed it all with clear satin Krylon spray so that way the fabric marker wouldn't rub off and so the shininess of the gloves was dulled (if the gloves feel stiff now, don't worry, wear them a little and they'll limber up). You can stop here at this step, but I wanted to make it a little more detailed and so I took some silver vinyl I had leftover from making powerbelts, and then cut out little ovals for the knuckles. I attached these to the gloves very carefully with some liquid stitch fabric glue.

Now, for the chinguard, here's the pattern I made (it's kind of faint but should work nonetheless): i.imgur.com/hfLW7.jpg

So, once again using what I had lying around, I took more silver vinyl and cut it out along the pattern, leaving long ends. I then glued on a layer of black craft foam under it so that it'd be close to the thickness of an anti-negativity helmet. Now, it would probably be better to find neoprene that matches what the helmet uses. You can search ebay and elsewhere to find some, but there's no guarantee that it'll match. The vinyl I used www.fabric.com/ProductDetail.a… matched the helmet pretty closely (you can look at photos in my gallery to see), and if you're making the hands and chinguard in tandem with the belts, you'll have some lying around too. Once done with this step, I hot glued the slits in the middle of the chinguard closed.

For attaching the chinguard to the helmet, I can think of several methods. What I employed was because I didn't have the eventual owner of the headpiece around to measure on, so I made it adjustable. I took some elastic I had leftover from making the Commander's helmet and then hot glued it to the inside of each end of the chinguard. At the free-hanging ends of the elastic I then sewed on some velcro, and that velcro attached to a strip inside the helmet which had been hot-glued in.
Here's a really rough diagram I sketched: i.imgur.com/AzX2e.png (note: make sure that when you're sewing the velcro on that when placed in the helmet it will face the inside of it so that way it can attach). Once the velcro is all set up you can then trim the ends of the chinguard to be shorter, and you can trim the flaps on the side of the a-n helmet to line up over it. Now I'm not saying to trim it so the ends match up, as the chinguard ends should slide under the helmet. This over-complicated process is so that the helmet is adjustable.
If you have the person who's going to wear it available for a fitting, then by all means just match up the ends and glue them together with hot glue.

So yeah, that's a rough basic overview of what I did. I know my methods were overly complex but that's what I did. If there's any further questions, send them my way.