Zombie Hadouken
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I randomly found a royal guard samurai helmet on etsy and it inspired me to build the armor for the Bandai akazonae royal guard.
I used 4 plastic garbage bins, red door trim, and blue paracord. Tools used were dremel with cutting wheel, scissors, hot glue gun, and heat gun to shape peices.
I cut the top and bottom off one bin, and cut out the arm and neck sections.
Then i cut out the shoulder armor peices and skirt pieces and wrapped red door trim around them
Then cut out leg peices and wrapped as well. Forearms are made of leather gauntlets with strips of craft foam superglued. Shins are leg guards with strips of craft foam superglued. Then painted everything with rustoleum satin colonial red.
The door trim didnt want to dry and was super tacky, so i clear coated over it and that worked luckily.
Then I had to drill around 500-600 holes for the paracord to go through.
Took several hours to to run the paracord through everything. I removed the inner cords to make it easier
Made an imperial logo out of craft foam and superglued it to chest
Made belt peice, wrapped with door trim, painted, then velcroed onto stomach area. I used heavy duty snaps to secure the cape to front of shoulders. Attached leg peices to bottom of chest armor at a slight angle.
I sewed velcro onto shoulders of red karate uniform and used sticky velcro on inside of shoulders.
Bought white tabi boots and dyed red. Then I painted a wood tanto knife for the belt, i just hotglued it down after lacing paracord around it. I had a wood katana with red sheath from a previous costume.
I used a blue braided belt and looped the paracord around it to attach all the armor peices. After around 40 hours of work, it was done! Hope this helps anyone thinking of making samurai style armor, i only spent about 70-80 dollars on the armor parts. So it can be done cheap, it just takes a lot of time.
I used 4 plastic garbage bins, red door trim, and blue paracord. Tools used were dremel with cutting wheel, scissors, hot glue gun, and heat gun to shape peices.
I cut the top and bottom off one bin, and cut out the arm and neck sections.
Then i cut out the shoulder armor peices and skirt pieces and wrapped red door trim around them
Then cut out leg peices and wrapped as well. Forearms are made of leather gauntlets with strips of craft foam superglued. Shins are leg guards with strips of craft foam superglued. Then painted everything with rustoleum satin colonial red.
The door trim didnt want to dry and was super tacky, so i clear coated over it and that worked luckily.
Then I had to drill around 500-600 holes for the paracord to go through.
Took several hours to to run the paracord through everything. I removed the inner cords to make it easier
Made an imperial logo out of craft foam and superglued it to chest
Made belt peice, wrapped with door trim, painted, then velcroed onto stomach area. I used heavy duty snaps to secure the cape to front of shoulders. Attached leg peices to bottom of chest armor at a slight angle.
I sewed velcro onto shoulders of red karate uniform and used sticky velcro on inside of shoulders.
Bought white tabi boots and dyed red. Then I painted a wood tanto knife for the belt, i just hotglued it down after lacing paracord around it. I had a wood katana with red sheath from a previous costume.
I used a blue braided belt and looped the paracord around it to attach all the armor peices. After around 40 hours of work, it was done! Hope this helps anyone thinking of making samurai style armor, i only spent about 70-80 dollars on the armor parts. So it can be done cheap, it just takes a lot of time.
