Ideally, I would've liked to have made this armor by taking an existing piece of kendo armor and altering it, but kendo armor is kind of on the expensive side and I had to make do with what I had: Foamies and plastic sheeting. The person I made it for specified they wanted to have it so that the shoulderpiece with the claws on it would be removable, so I designed a system whereby the shoulderpiece could be set into slots in the front and back of the armor. Making the claws proved to be the toughest part of the project, as they had to looked curved and organic. I eventually settled on a system where I molded the claws using modelling clay and hot glue from a template I had managed to make out of friendly plastic. (If called upon to do this project again, I would most likely fashion the claws from paperclay instead of trying to mold them.) This costume was worn at Sakuracon, by the way. Click here to see it how it looks with it's finished costume.