– A long coat zipper to close up the costume – Sewing pattern for a typical animal costume for a guide. Once the eyes are in place I cut out 2 circles out of acetate paper to affix on the eyes to resemble glass from the lens. As a clever way to hide the seam from the eye to the head, I painted a piece of water tubing, a bronze color and wrapped it around the seam and attached it using hot glue for a cleaner look.ģ. With your eyes finished slide them into the head and attach it using hot glue from the inside of the mask, so not to see the glue on the outside.Ģ. I created them above the eyebrows and the back of the head.ġ. Start adding stitch marks on your head for detail. Once you are done with coating the head with fabric, get some brown yarn and a large sewing needle.ĥ. The cloth stretches a lil but you’ll need to cut it, so it fits the head tight without any folds or gaps.Ĥ. Be conscious where continue pieces of material. Cut holes for any openings and fold the material into the opening.ģ. Once everything has dried, get the Burlap cloth and coat the entire head using the glue gun to affix the material to the base of the head.Ģ. Once this has dried you can attach the iris you created with hot glue inside the eye piece, from the back.ġ. I had plastic gloves so this was easy to do.ħ. This created streaks like groove marks and dents etc. To add the dirty distressed metal, I sprayed a heavy amount of black and quickly wiped and smeared the paint off. I paint certain pats all gold for detail.Ħ. Overlapping the colors is the key to a great look.ĥ. This created a blending affect from gold to silver. I then used the gold in blending motion from the back to the front. First I coated the entire thing with silver.Ĥ. First, I painted the eyes with a matte white base coat.Ģ. I would wear a mask or respirator because this stuff is strong smell’n and probably isn’t healthy to inhale the fumes for long periods.ġ. Be quick because the resin cures fast once you add the liquid hardener. Buy some Fiberglass resin from your local hardware store, and coat you eyes and head pieces with the resin. Put the head piece on for a test fitting… if everything is kosher, then it’s time to coat the pieces with resin.ġ. Finally determine the opening of your head piece and cut out the back where you will place your head into.Ģ8. After you have the eyes cutout, determine the position of the mouth and cut that out of your head as well.Ģ7. Make sure to make the hole smaller than normal and remove a lil at a time so the eye piece has a snug fit.Ģ6. Use a sharpie to trace your hole using your eye piece as a guide, on your head piece.Ģ5. Once you have both eyes, map out where you will cut out the holes in your head that you will slide the eye pieces in.Ģ4. Repeat this whole entire eye process for the second eye.Ģ3. You will glue this once the eye piece is done. With an xacto knife, cut away each layer from the iris, staggering it so it looks like a camera shutter.Ģ2. Also, when cutting out your hole, make sure it doesn’t contain the area you used to glue the pieces together.Ģ1. This will be the hole you will see out of, so make it large enough. Cut a circle thru the 5 pieces you glued together to represent the eye. This cutout will sit behind the cardboard (e).Ģ0. Cut 5 identical circles from white card stock larger than the opening of cardboard(e). Let the plaster dry and take a fine grit sand paper to smooth things out.ġ8. Inflate the balloon to a size that can fit your head.ġ7. This can cause the paint or plaster from adhering to the cardboard.)ġ. Make sure there isn’t any slick coating or labels on it. You can base the thickness of the cardboard on the part you are using it for. 2 smooth sides and a middle with air pockets. (I used cardboard from boxes and packaging. – white base coat paint, Black, Reddish brown, copper and gold spray paint. – Lots of reference images of “Nine” front, side, top, views… – A brush to spread the watered-down glue. – Something to suspend your balloon while you work on it. It must be large enough to fit your head. This will be the base used to create the head for your costume. – large round party balloon bigger than your head. Hopefully, this will give you an idea of what process I went thru to create your costume and you can modify it to fit your needs. Also, it was made based on my body measurements. There were a lot of workarounds to make this costume, so measurements should be used as a guide. This costume was inspired by Tim Burton’s Film “Nine”.
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