My first stormtrooper costume, circa 1978

[evlares]

I was 15 years old. Full on posterboard....the helmet was a cheap kids stormtrooper face mask taped on to a white motorcycle helmet, the blaster was wood. This was scanned from an old Polaroid pic my mom had. Dont laugh, i thought i was pretty cool at the time.

 

[DarkHelmet]

looks great for the era! :thumbsup

 

[tcsmit29]

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing. It would be really cool to see other "old cosplay" pics.:lol

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

Looks sharp !

 

[dbuck]

All things considered, that was pretty good.

 

[DL 44 Blaster]

Looks great considering I was rocking the old Ben Cooper costumes of Darth and Boba back in the day. :thumbsup

 

[OldKen]

Aren't you a little tall for a 15 year old stormtrooper?

 

[Panzer]

That's cool certainly beats cutting a hole in a bucket. You know it still looks better then Rubies!

 

[baron von blondle]

dude, at that time you'd have had a hard time getting me out of that costume, even for a bath! top work

Respect
P.

 

[Stormy320]

Ha Ha - too funny.

I used to daydream trying to figure out how to make trooper armor.

You got further along than I did!

 

[dcarty]

I used to daydream trying to figure out how to make trooper armor.

You got further along than I did!

Seriously, I started reading this thread thinking the exact same thing. I used to run the idea over in my head again and again and again as I went to sleep. I would have been an 8 year old Stormtrooper if I managed to do anything about it--lol.

 

[MooCriket]

You know....looks alot better than Rubies. Cool. Alot better than I could have done at 15.

 

[xenomorph]

Seriously, I started reading this thread thinking the exact same thing. I used to run the idea over in my head again and again and again as I went to sleep. I would have been an 8 year old Stormtrooper if I managed to do anything about it--lol.

Same here!

The times I would design armour on paper and think how I could make a real suit when it was a young kid is unreal. Thinking I would have to make the armour from wood and carve it...crazy:lol

My cardboard efforts used to look something similar to your photo, though the helmets were always terrible and kind of origami style:wacko

Thanks for sharing!

 

[lambotour]

I think it was a great attempt all things considered. I was 10 at the time and we were so poor, I couldn't even afford the imagination of coming up with a costume. Thanks for bringing back the memories.:thumbsup

 

[Harmonic_Distortion]

Love this photo. Agree with everyone saying it's great considering the situation. It really makes you think...wow, I should go ahead and make that project I've been avoiding...the first run will teach me so much...and turn out better than I'd hoped probably!