spartan1803
Well-Known Member
hey guys, long time no post! Just before Halloween my wife showed me a post on Facebook of a guy and his daughter dressed up as Rocket and Groot. I have contemplated this build before but decided to focus on my halo armor. I started the build a week ago and was really edgy about it because I couldn’t find a template and I have never started a build completely from scratch with a foam or pepakura file.
I started out by measuring my own face. I was going to start this out as a wrap but decided to make the head a two piece. I marked out the measurements from top to bottom and around my head I drew the eyes and mouth in measure with my own
Not trusting my drawing skills a friend of mine loaned me a projector so I could finish the face and head dress
After that I added the sides and cut it out
Now a huge thing about this is that when I would google cosplays people have done I noticed the masks didn’t have much shape that his face has.
That is a make or break deal for me. If I can’t get it to have facial features that Groot has then the project is a bust. I ordered a foam head to put the mask on so it will hold its shape and I have bought some craft foam to do some detail with. I think I’m going to sure some thicker foam for the nose instead of layering the craft foam. I was wondering how I was going to do the brow. I was going to add another layer but didn’t want to make rather mask too bulky then it dawned on me that I could just cut the brow line and push it in.
Crazy thing, call it a sign or what have you. I was watching the movie today to get some reference pictures and right at the part where Groot sacrifices himself to save everyone, my wife told me the Stan Lee had passed. I still can’t believe it. This build have become a dedication build. I have tried to look up other threads on groot builds but haven’t had any luck. This will be a slow build due to the fact that we just had a baby!!! If you guys have any advice. I would greatly appreciate it!!!
I started out by measuring my own face. I was going to start this out as a wrap but decided to make the head a two piece. I marked out the measurements from top to bottom and around my head I drew the eyes and mouth in measure with my own
Not trusting my drawing skills a friend of mine loaned me a projector so I could finish the face and head dress
After that I added the sides and cut it out
Now a huge thing about this is that when I would google cosplays people have done I noticed the masks didn’t have much shape that his face has.
That is a make or break deal for me. If I can’t get it to have facial features that Groot has then the project is a bust. I ordered a foam head to put the mask on so it will hold its shape and I have bought some craft foam to do some detail with. I think I’m going to sure some thicker foam for the nose instead of layering the craft foam. I was wondering how I was going to do the brow. I was going to add another layer but didn’t want to make rather mask too bulky then it dawned on me that I could just cut the brow line and push it in.
Crazy thing, call it a sign or what have you. I was watching the movie today to get some reference pictures and right at the part where Groot sacrifices himself to save everyone, my wife told me the Stan Lee had passed. I still can’t believe it. This build have become a dedication build. I have tried to look up other threads on groot builds but haven’t had any luck. This will be a slow build due to the fact that we just had a baby!!! If you guys have any advice. I would greatly appreciate it!!!
