Re: WIP Cyclops Costume for 3yr old - X-men Buckle Model
Last night I paid dearly for trying to get a small lower-leg model from my 3yr old son. It was like wrestling a bobcat, but I finally got the duct tape layers removed with no one getting seriously hurt! :love
I also picked up a pair of tiny (size 8) work boots from our local thrift store this week ($1), and planned to use them as a base for the X-men Hero boots for his costume.
Here's the lower-leg model and the boot (pre-modification)...
Now, Before I go into details... I figure some of you just want to skip ahead and see the video -- so, here is the link!
(for the rest of you... read on).
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I cut the tongue out, the heel loop and part of the laces holes. to de-bulk the ankle diameter. I then worked with cling-wrap, duct tape, paper and anything else I had to wrap up the shoe/leg-model and then make foam templates out of after it was cut off and spread out.
Here is the first piece of foam being glued onto the shoe...
The lower and upper side panels were next, but I first glued them together before gluing them to the shoe.
Then they got glued to the shoe (starting at the heel piece of foam).
(ignore how gimpy my hot glue gun is, please)
So, this is how the back looked at this point...
And then with that back seam glued up, it looked like this...
...and here is the same shot from the front. Note: you can see I re-enforced the back seam with glue-stitches across the back.
I then took a strip of black velcro and split one side length-wise. That was glued along both edges of the opening in the front of the boot (to allow my son to get his foot in and out of the boot).
The other half of the velcro was NOT split length-wise, but was rather glued to the back of a 1" wide strip of foam that runs from the very toe of the boot all the way up the front.
Here are the (nearly) finished pictures...
Things still to do:
1. Decide if I want to do an X-men logo at the top of the front of the boot (where the strip ends at the top of the boot).
2. If not that, terminate that stripe in some other way.
3. Plasti-dip the whole boot.
4. Paint and weather it a bit.
5. Remember that I have to do a SECOND boot after this one! :confused
Oh, and here is the link again to the video...
for anyone brave enough to still be reading!
