Gallery of my wrist protectors

These are my version of Dax's Wedding wrist protectors.  I used metallic foil from Jones with a clear adhesive/paint.  After the adhesive dried, I used the gold foil(its a mylar plastic with a metallic paint adhered to it)and pressed the foil onto the adhesive.  I used a dead pen to rub the top of the foil.  You then pull away the foil sheet, and the metallic paint is left behind.  You have to seal the foil with an acrylic varnish, so the foil wont rub off with wearing.
The bottom one is inside out, with felt at the 2 ends.  You can see the seams of where the wrist protector is pieced together.

Gold foil applied to vinyl

Sculpey symbol in gold
glued into place.

The above wrist protectors are a contrast in depth, and detailing.  They both have their strong points.  The foil is ok for stage presentations when the audience is not up close and personal.  The sculpey is more work, but is worth the effort.  I use them for hall costuming where people are close enough to appreciate the detail.

The sculpey has to have a resonabley stiff and/or stable base.  The extra plaquette is an other way to add depth and demension to the design and is just stiff enough to accomidate the sculpey.

This set of wrist protectors has been jokingly refered to as 'Narn Skin'.  They were first painted completely red(3 coats) and then the black detailing was painted on.  Whether the black sections were painted only once or three times, creates the faded effect and highlights certain parts of the design.
When I want to make black wrist protectors, there isn't any black available.  When I want more of the red lizard skin... So I usually end up painting the wrist protectors when they are virtually finished.   You usually need two to three coats to give a good base color.  With glossy or metallic paints, three coats of acrylic varnish is necessarry.  They will stick to anything, if you don't.  Also the paint has a habbit of sticking permenantly, leaving bits of paint where ever.  I also seal the other paints as well.  It keeps them from being easily damaged, and the paint from peeling over time.