twinight
Active Member
Here's the start of my kid's costume for SDCC.
He wanted wolverine and then I convinced him to do a tron/wolverine hybrid with a light up x-men jacket and light up claws. But then he wanted to hold an identity disk too. Then he wanted to be rinzler, but there's too much detail to scale down for a kid and not enough lighting. And the logistics of 2 discs....
But he was set on red. But after getting the diasppointing red EL tape that doesn't even show lit unless it's dark, I finally convinced him how cool Anon was.
Large body panels, Teal lighting. But since I already have the red tape, I'm just going to peel off the color overlay and just use white.
I started by wrapping my kid in duct tape. I stared at it for a day and wondered how to lay that first layer of foam. That will determine how he will get in an out and where the fabric will be shown. I resorted to sketching the panels on the mannequin and that gave me a sense of scale. I will then cut out the panels in construction paper to tweak the shape before using it as a stencil for the actual foam piece.
Flexibility in this costume is a must for a 4 year old, so I found this 1/8" shelf liner material at home depot that i will use instead of craft foam. Stretchy and tear resistant. I don't know how well hot glue will stick to it yet.
He wanted wolverine and then I convinced him to do a tron/wolverine hybrid with a light up x-men jacket and light up claws. But then he wanted to hold an identity disk too. Then he wanted to be rinzler, but there's too much detail to scale down for a kid and not enough lighting. And the logistics of 2 discs....
But he was set on red. But after getting the diasppointing red EL tape that doesn't even show lit unless it's dark, I finally convinced him how cool Anon was.
Large body panels, Teal lighting. But since I already have the red tape, I'm just going to peel off the color overlay and just use white.
I started by wrapping my kid in duct tape. I stared at it for a day and wondered how to lay that first layer of foam. That will determine how he will get in an out and where the fabric will be shown. I resorted to sketching the panels on the mannequin and that gave me a sense of scale. I will then cut out the panels in construction paper to tweak the shape before using it as a stencil for the actual foam piece.
Flexibility in this costume is a must for a 4 year old, so I found this 1/8" shelf liner material at home depot that i will use instead of craft foam. Stretchy and tear resistant. I don't know how well hot glue will stick to it yet.
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