Low budget Ewok costume build.

[Kirk0]

Sunday night my wife decided she no longer wanted do Halloween as Poison Ivy and wants an Ewok costume to go with my Chewbacca costume giving me 2 weeks to put this together.
I brainstormed for a while and decided it was possible in the short time frame if I could find a hairy costume so I found this Fluffy dog costume for £24.99:

My wifes only 4ft 11" so will need to have the legs taken up so I'll have enough material left over from the hood and legs to cover a mask although I do have some grey fur from my failed 1/4 scale TaunTaun build so may use that.

I did a little searching on here and found a few threads on how to build a mask so figured I'd go for it and ordered the dog onesie costume.

The nose and mouth are oven bake clay, mask was a cheap Skeleton mask and I've just been padding it out with EVA foam I had left over from the foam Bowcaster I've built for my costume.
Glued a Felt round hat inside so its more of a full head mask to aid with gluing the foam and ears on and added little bit of scrap white plastic for the teeth, that's the base for the head finished.


Took awhile to get the shape right but having roughly laid some fur out over it I think I'm about there:



Need to source something for the eyes and then I can start cutting the fur up and gluing it to the mask.

 

[newmagrathea]

Wow, that's pretty good.

 

[Doh2]

Fantastically clever!

 

[FrightMaker]

Very nice work! Spot on!

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[Kirk0]

Got the fur all glued on this morning other than needing to make some new eyes as I broke these trying to cut them the mask is now finished.

 

[Kirk0]

Gave it a quick test try on, just need to take the suit up, make a hood and make some feet and its finished.
Feel the Furry onesie although not perfect was a good cheap time saving solution.

 

[Borjis]

Brilliant!

 

[Kirk0]

Done a little work on the hood.


Edit.
Also made the feet:

 

[Kirk0]

Few pics of the finished Costume from Saturday, we had a pretty large Star wars group!

 

[StitchFett]

That mask is great work. It all came out pretty sweet if you as me. I might have to make one of these for the wife

 

[Kirk0]

Thanks, I'm going to have an attempt at making a lifesize ewok next year to keep our E.T company using the same technique. Think I can build a mini mannequin from pipe and pad it out with foam and glue the fur straight onto it.