Making this was something of an academic exercise for me (and not, I repeat, NOT a shameless attempt on my part to raise money by producing and selling a rare prop from a popular series.... Okay... so it was. Sue me.) I made this using my tried (and mostly) true foam and plastic sheeting method. The gold "trim" on the gauntlets are strips of 1/4" thick foam which I glued, then sewed to the surface of the gauntlet, then covered with an additional layer of plastic. (Yeah, it takes about 3,700 hours to do, but it's worth it. Really... Okay. So it probably isn't. But that's 3,700 hours of my life I can't get back, so I'm going to try and remain philosophical about the whole thing.) Doesn't it look nice, folks?