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Cosplay Tutorial: Styrene Armor

Hey guys! I'm now on Patreon! If you want to support my videos you can pledge as little as a dollar HERE: patreon.com/angrypixiedesign ________________________________________________________________ This is NOVA! One of my favorite new costumes! I had a friend request the armor tutorial so that was the kick in the butt to get it done. This tutorial contains information on how I made the entire costume: This costume was a cornucopia of different costuming and prop making techniques. For the helmet, I used the casting process which hit a wall so was replaced with the same material and process as the rest of the armor. I hope to do more casting in the future. If you want more information check out Smooth-On's videos or Back Yard FX. You can also google "how to cast latex/resin" The body suit was an old silver zentai body suit. You can find these on ebay for 30 to 50 dollars with shipping cost. Its often found under lycra spandex cat suit. TO make the suit blue I rubbed acrylic medium into the suit and then spray painted the suit neon blue. Acrylic medium can be found at Joanns or fabric or craft stores. Believe it or not this is one of the cheapest costumes I have ever done. For the details of the suit I sewed on plastic tubing with metallic thread. The main facet of this costume was the armor. The character is an original character from my best friends brothers unpublished novel. The design of the armor is totally not functional because the character can change her shape so my friend thought the best use of aesthetic freedom was to design boob holes and a lightning thong XD I love costume armor, plus I've always wanted an excuse to work with more thermo-plastics. Thermo-plastic is the name for any plastic that can be heated up and molded. Professionals use a technique called vacuforming but I just heated up my styrene over the stove top in my kitchen. Just practice with it until you are comfortable. For this armor I bought a huge sheet of 1/16 of an inch thickness Styrene plastic from TAP plastics and used that in combination with foam sheets, hot glue, and multiple paints to create the armor. I drew the patterns out of foam originally because I thought I'd line the plastic with the foam for comfort and to help keep the thigh pieces up, but it ended up causing to much trouble and I scrapped the idea. I foolishly used hot glue to adhere the foam to the styrene. The heat caused some warping in the armor. But I used the foam patterns as a stencil for the plastic and cut the pieces out with a hedge clipper. Normal scissors arn't strong enough to cut out the plastic. Once I had the armor cut out I heated it up on the stove and molded it on my body. This plastic gets extremely hot so don't just put it on your bare skin. I wore a few layers of clothing to make sure I didn't get burned. Once your finished molding then its on to painting. Make sure you are completely happy with your finished armor because you can't re shape it once you start painting it. I gave the armor a base coat of blue spray paint. Use a primer or spray paint meant for plastic. Also sanding your pieces helps the paint stick. I then coated all of the armor pieces with dark blue iridescent paint and used lighter blue on the foam details. I then covered everything with a translucent blue paint. These paints are used on windows to create a fake stained glass effect. They are flexible when they dry and can be used on almost any surface. They can be found at Joanns, Michaels and other fabric or craft stores. I adore these paints and used them on the sword as well. I used some hot glue on the armor. I learned a handy trick which is to use an exact-knife or a box cutter to shave and carve the hot glue. This is EXTREMELY dangerous so use work gloves so you don't cut yourself multiple times like I did. To attach the armor to the suit I used lots of elastic and Velcro. Both were white which I colored with fabric markers and sharpies to match the blue color of the armor. I sewed several pieces of Velcro onto the suit and then glued the matching side of the Velcro into the armor so that the thigh pieces and the crotch armor would stay in place. The Sword was a combination of layers of vinyl, hot glue, resin, and a toy lightsaber I got for a few bucks. I used the same Stained Glass paints and some christmas lights to give it the effect I wanted.