How to add border to curved shape? (Armor trim)

[Anonymous]

I am trying to model (and print) the shoulder armor on this costume. I've started from the in-game model and I am recreating it so that it is not low-poly. 

I have the base shoulder pieces modeled (I just did a bunch of lofts with guide rails). I now want to add the gold trim to each of them. I'm not sure how to do this. I tried using Shell, but it's really limited in application.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1. create a „plane along path“ > path = armor contour

2. Sketch the profile of the border on that plane

3. Sweep the profile along the arms contour.

günther

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much! I couldn't quite get it to look nice using sweep, but I was able to do it with lofts!