Boris Mzhen
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One costume I always wanted to do but never had a chance to was a Plague Doctor, this year a few of my friends suggested we do a plague doctor group so I finally had my chance. We were all planning on doing different versions of plague doctors so for my costume I decided to go big.
I started off by making the mask. I started with a paper mask for the forehead/eyes and made the nose out of cardstock. I then covered it all with plaster bandages, followed by fast-mache:
Next it was time to add the eyes. I used a pair of welding goggles that I trimmed with a dremel tool and molded to the shape of the mask, covered by more fast-mache to blend it all in. Later I sanded the whole thing by hand to make it smooth and carved some cracks/holes with an xacto knife:
Next it was time to seal/paint/weather/varnish the mask:
Finally, I aded some LEDs to the eyes, and wired up a hidden on off/switch which will be attached to one of my hands, allowing me to turn the eyes on and off at any time. I also decided to use mesh instead of the glass lenses that came with the goggles, to prevent fogging.
continued in next post....
More Photos HERE
One costume I always wanted to do but never had a chance to was a Plague Doctor, this year a few of my friends suggested we do a plague doctor group so I finally had my chance. We were all planning on doing different versions of plague doctors so for my costume I decided to go big.
I started off by making the mask. I started with a paper mask for the forehead/eyes and made the nose out of cardstock. I then covered it all with plaster bandages, followed by fast-mache:
Next it was time to add the eyes. I used a pair of welding goggles that I trimmed with a dremel tool and molded to the shape of the mask, covered by more fast-mache to blend it all in. Later I sanded the whole thing by hand to make it smooth and carved some cracks/holes with an xacto knife:
Next it was time to seal/paint/weather/varnish the mask:
Finally, I aded some LEDs to the eyes, and wired up a hidden on off/switch which will be attached to one of my hands, allowing me to turn the eyes on and off at any time. I also decided to use mesh instead of the glass lenses that came with the goggles, to prevent fogging.
continued in next post....
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