EVA foam builds the big flat parts of an armor set (the materials guide says when: plates, pauldrons, speed, budget). The parts foam can't hold — filigree trim, crowned edges, a visor's fiddly curve — are the ones that go through heat and come out Worbla. Week of the build that wants it, the moves to know:
Worbla goes to 90–110 °C and drapes like clay over whatever you've shaped it around — armor filigree, tiara edges, whole crowns formed over a wig head. It welds to itself with heat alone — a hair dryer is the minimum tool, a heat gun is the real one — which is why there are no glue lines to sand afterwards. Scraps aren't scraps either: trimmings roll back into new sheets, so the build's off-cuts keep working.
The sandwich move for both worlds: shape it over craft foam — foam for the body, Worbla for the crisp surface — and emboss or press texture in while it's warm.
Cost per sheet is real next to foam mats. The honeycomb backside prints its texture into every surface unless you buy the smooth variants. And the burn risk to fingers is higher than foam's — gloves and ventilation, same rule as ever. The app's bench-gear list carries the kit for either material.
Hang the mask. — the workshop crew
