Cardboard stormtrooper

[Prairysurf]

My daughter wanted us to be stormtrooper for Halloween so I decided to make an inexpensive armour set with some left over cardboard. Using hot glue and looking at pictures I crafted the suit.

I then took some silicone and hot glue and filled any gaps. And used rock guard spray paint to give the cardboard armour a coating then painted with a semi gloss acrylic house paint.

After using some hot glue and Velcro and purchasing a stormtrooper black series helmet it turned out alright.

I just used a black surfing rash guard and some black running leggings underneath with some dollar store black gloves then used some black paint to age/ rough up the outfit and had a decent costume.

I just used some model paint to paint some rubies Star Wars blasters and strapped some flashlights to them for trick or treating

I knew that I wouldn't be able to wear the helmet all night especially with little kids running around. You can't see anything below your nose in those helmets. So instead of tripping over kids all night, I made a lightsaber scar on my face.

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[Friendly flyer]

Very nice costume project! You and your family look insanely cute in that outfit!

 

[Rogviler]

I love it, as I do a lot of cardboard stuff myself. If you still have it and wanted to make it a bit more durable, my favorite thing right now is to coat cardboard stuff with a layer or two of paper towels (blue shop towels are the best, avoid cheap paper towels as they disintegrate like toilet paper) and soak them with a 50/50 mix of white glue or wood glue and water. You can definitely go from there with fiberglass resin and body filler, but just the paper towels and glue sets up pretty hard. Plus you can do it at the kitchen table and nobody gets mad. And it's cheap.

-Rog

 

[UrbanGandalf]

This is awesome work!

 

[Blue Leader]

That's pretty impressive work there. Nice job!

 

[PropReplicator2]

Amazing! I really love the lightsabers scar haha! Very nice touch. I always end up taking my helmet off to watch the little one too. Sometimes I think about cuffing us together but she would still manage to find a way out ......

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