Best Cap shield replicas?
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AgentOfShield
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Again, I'm going with how it is represented most of the time in the films, and the most recent representations as well do hold weight (see dontfeedmyego's screenshot from Endgame)
AgentOfShield
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Whipped this up a while back but thought I'd post it here since we're talking about it. If I were a designer or fabricator I wouldn't measure proportions as percentages as opposed to real measurements as seen here.
So my 2 cents on the hero proportions are a 9 inch star disc in a 24" total diameter, with the rings equal width based on the remaining diameter not taken up by the star disc. Made the vectors in illustrator and the measurements/proportions do work out based on the references
So my 2 cents on the hero proportions are a 9 inch star disc in a 24" total diameter, with the rings equal width based on the remaining diameter not taken up by the star disc. Made the vectors in illustrator and the measurements/proportions do work out based on the references
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Drakonnen
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Here is what I am going off of: This dead on shot from the Marvel Masterworks shield. I cropped it to within a 1 pixel edge on all sides and resized it to 1000 pixels. When I do that the blue area, both side to side and up to down (confirming there is no distortion in the image) equals exactly 385 pixels (38.5% diameter for the blue portion). On a 24 inch shield. giving or taking a pixel, that works out to be EXACTLY 9 1/4 inches
Also, your proportions example is inaccurate because you actually have a thick black pixel ring around the top shield which is not part of the actual shield, making the blue part represent smaller in your bottom image as a result.. I took the Masterworks one and overlaid it to be the exact same size as your bottom and top one to remove the black ring distortion, and you can see that the blue portion is slightly larger than the 9 inches, hence 9 1/4.
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dontfeedmyego
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I’ve made a 26” shield with a 9 1/5 in star and it was too big.
See attached.
Relicmakers Shield is 25”
8 1/5 might be right
Drakonnen
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I think you are going off the length of one edge of the star, which is not what we are talking about and would be apples to oranges, rather than diameter of the blue area. Recropping an resizing your picture, the blue area is 40.3% of the shield size based on ratio to 1000 pixels, so the diameter of the blue area if its a 26 inch shield is just slightly under 10.5 inches (like 10.475)
dontfeedmyego
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No I’m going on the diameter of the ring.
Drakonnen
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There is no way in hell that is 9 1/5 inches on a 26 inch shield man. That would put it at 35% of the shield, and that is clearly well beyond that. Put a tape measure on it and take a picture.
dontfeedmyego
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It’s long gone.
I have a shield now with the correct proportions- I’ll measure that when home.
Drakonnen
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Where is that shield from? How do you know it is "Correct". To me, the one we can be the most sure of is the Marvel Masterworks one, made by the people who actually made the original prop, and you can very easily measure the pixels for yourself to see the ratios.
AgentOfShield
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I think we should try to get in contact with someone who has an eFX (remember still casted off of production pieces) or a Masterworks and have them take measurements, because we're not taking into account any lens distortion caused by different focal lengths used to photograph these references.
See here, the outer silhouette doesn't change much but the inner proportions differ greatly:
See here, the outer silhouette doesn't change much but the inner proportions differ greatly:
dontfeedmyego
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That’s a stunt shield. Different to hero shield. For starters it’s a 24” Shield
And exactly- the shield is curved, iPhone lenses. There’s a lot at play
AgentOfShield
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Yes it is a stunt shield but it has that gap on the second ring on the back that the hero prop has, which indicates it was casted off of the original, giving us a fairly accurate representation of the hero's proportions still
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dontfeedmyego
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The hero shield is 26”
AgentOfShield
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The Masterworks shield is 24" so we can assume the hero is the same
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dontfeedmyego
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The Masterworks shield is 24" so we can assume the hero is the same
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Ohh ok.
TFA was 26”
Civil war (masterworks) must have been 24”.
Thank for pointing that out
dontfeedmyego
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The age old question... yeah I believe so- about 25” in diameter I think (I’ve forgotten to be honest)
dontfeedmyego
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It’s also possible that the company that spun that shield of mine didn’t follow the measurements I gave them. Never occurred to me at the time so I never measured it.
Do we have any members here that own a Masterworks shield?
Watching the few unboxing videos on YouTube, you really notice the thickness of the edges. Almost all the replicas are way thinner, with the exception of the efx, King Arts and Beast Kingdom shields.
I'd like to propose that a potential definitive replica, which I will officially dub "The Ultimate Hero Shield" should definitely have the correct thickness. The key is first discovering how the original shield was manufactured so it can be reproduced exactky.
Watching the few unboxing videos on YouTube, you really notice the thickness of the edges. Almost all the replicas are way thinner, with the exception of the efx, King Arts and Beast Kingdom shields.
I'd like to propose that a potential definitive replica, which I will officially dub "The Ultimate Hero Shield" should definitely have the correct thickness. The key is first discovering how the original shield was manufactured so it can be reproduced exactky.
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