How to Make a Origami Infinity Gauntlet

DIY Paper Maché Infinity Gauntlet

Make this cheap and easy Infinity Gauntlet with old newspapers, acrylic paints, and an old kitchen glove. I will demonstrate how to create custom lighted jewels for the Gauntlet with epoxy resin and colored LEDs.

Step 1 – Paper Maché

Materials:

Newspapers or old magazines
Flour and water to make a paste
Kitchen glove

Prepare the glove you want to use for your gauntlet by stuffing it with some newspaper. The purpose is just to make sure the hand will stand up firm while you're putting on the paper maché.

First, mix flour and water to form a thick spreadable paste. Tear your newspaper or magazines into strips and dip into the flour mixture and remove any excess. Place each strip on your glove until it's fully covered. Repeat for three layers. This is a good step that you can get your kids to help out with. Allow hand to dry for at least two hours to harden before proceeding to paint.

Figure 1 – Kitchen glove with Paper Maché

Step 2 – Assemble and Paint

Materials:

Acrylic Paints
Craft foam
(Optional) Solder iron (to give the craft foam that ancient burnt in image look)
Scissors and Glue
Infinity Gauntlet pattern (or use the attached pattern)

After your paper maché is dry, start painting it with a layer of white acrylic paint. This will help by requiring fewer coats of the acrylic paints we will use to decorate our Infinity Gauntlet. Using the craft foam cut out the cuff, finger covers, and other details for your glove. You can create your own pattern, download one from our site, or search online for the pattern of your choice. Once you finished cutting out the foam pieces, glue the cuff to the glove. The handguard and the finger covers can be attached last after we've completed the steps to create the jewels.

Optionally, you can also start etching details into your foam pieces with a soldering iron or an X-Acto knife to add more details. This addition will give it a much more realistic appearance, but it's not necessary and some of these effects can also be achieved with acrylic paints. Once you are finished with detailing you can begin painting your glove,

Step 3 – Create the Infinity Stones

Materials:

Epoxy Resin
Alcohol Ink (in the colors of your jewels)
Silicone Molds
Clear Straws (for attaching the LEDs)

When using epoxy resin, make sure you follow the package directions exactly or your jewels may not set properly. For the colors, I used yellow, red, blue, purple, green, and orange alcohol inks or mixed the colors to create all six colors. After power your epoxy into the molds, insert the straws, but into ½ inch pieces. This will be used to hold the LEDs in the next step. Cover your jewels after you power them into the molds to protect them from dust.

Once your jewels have set you can glue them into the handguard. To do this, out the positions of your gems in the handguard and cut them out with an X-Acto knife. You can then use a glue gun to place the gems in the location you want.

You can follow my video mix because they didn't have the exact colors silicone molds in the shape of the jewels are going to create and finally, you need some clear straws and we're gonna cut these into 1/2 inch pieces and we're gonna use these to load the LEDs first I'm going to make my epoxy resin I'm using Ezcast it's pretty simple to use be sure to follow the directions correctly and complete your mixing and to separate cups like I'm doing here once the mixing is complete I will pour it into my molds that I want to create my chill with and then I'm using some alcohol ink to create the various colors for Thanos's jewels now I'm also cutting some clear

Step 4 – Wire the LEDs

Materials:

Colored LEDs
2 cell batteries (2032)
Cell battery case
Resistors, wires, and solder
Solder iron

In this step, we are going to wire LEDs to our jewels to light up the Infinity Gauntlet. I am using white, blue, yellow, and green LEDs. For the orange and purple LEDs, I am going to use white LEDs which I will color with a Sharpie in purple and orange.

To power the LEDs, I used two cell batteries to give me a total output of 6 volts which will be adequate to power all six of my LEDs Using Ohm's Law and the highest voltage forward from my LEDs, I am able to calculate the value of the resistors I will need for wiring the LEDs: