The Shoulders/Arms

There are three main armor components of the biker scout arms:
Shoulder pads,
Biceps,
Elbow Pads.

The Shoulder pad is about,21.5 cm tall, 15.25 cm wide and 9 cm deep. The depth of the bell shape depends on the body size of the wearer. We custom sculpted ours out of clay on a mannequin.

Notice that the ILM shoulder pads are curved from the front side and straight from the side view. This is caused from the shape of the Bells natural curve and carefully cutting the plastic to match the curve therefore forming the correct angles.

Once you have created your master mold or sculpture, you'll want to refer to our plaster casting and vacuumforming sections to make your final vacuumformed armor parts.

The bicep armor is basically a cylinder with a raised box-like-thing attached to the master mold. We used a piece of PVC pipe to make our cylinders , then sculpted and tweaked the raised box item. The cut-away area on the sides of the biceps armor are done in the finishing stages of the costume.

The bicep is about 14 cm tall, 9 cm deep and 11.5 cm wide. The small box like area is 9 cm long and 6.5 cm wide. It is roughly 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) in diameter if it were a completed cylinder, which it is not (unlike the stormtrooper armor which fully encircles the wearers bicep).

Check out our plaster casting and vacuumforming sections to make your final vacuumformed armor parts.

The Elbow Pad is cylindrical too, as it only encircles half of the wearers forearm. The elbow armor is roughly14 cm long, 11.5 cm wide and 9 cm tall. The flat surface on the top side of the elbow pad seems to be 3.8 cm wide.

For sizing issues we took measurements from three different fanmade Biker Scout suits and came up with this generic template which is fairly close to repesenting the ILM made armor.

If you notice in the Reference Images page, the elbow pad is not only a cylinder, but it has a curved shape also. We decided to use a piece of curved PVC pipe to recreate this curvature for our molds.

We used .125 guage sheet plastic and cut the flat black ridge which goes along the top of the elbow armor. We took this plastic strip and glued it down to the PVC pipe.

Here is the final elbow pad vacuum mold after we plaster cast the PVC master.

Again, you'll want to refer to our plaster casting and vacuumforming sections to make your final vacuumformed armor parts.