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Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Read about building the rest of the costume at The RPF. He made the visor for the helmet’s faceplate from a translucent red vinyl folder.

I thought the “dry” time would be a problem, but if you plan right, it’s not. For me personally, I find the contact cement works a lot better. I had also by this point switched from using hot glue to contact cement for building. By this time, I had found the Harbor Freight floor mats, with the nice carbon-fiber texture.

Once the rest of the build was pretty much done, I came back and rebuilt the helmet. I also wasn’t keen on how the seams came out.īUT - I wanted to move on to other pieces and keep it moving along. While I finished this one, it was over-scaled a bit, and the foam was pretty flimsy. I hadn’t found the floor mats yet, so I was using some foam I had ordered online. I started in on a rebuild in foam, with hot glue. For example, he started with the helmet and he tried making it from card stock and Bondo but didn’t like the method so he switched to foam:

Eidylon spent about a year making the armor, and he started with pepakura files ( available here).Įidylon broke down the build process by sections at The RPF, and the how-to is worth reading to see what kind or problems he encountered with his first cosplay and how he fixed them. It’s an ambitious choice, but you’ll certainly learn a lot if you make a costume of this level first. He decided to make a replica of the Mass Effect and Dragon Age crossover Blood Dragon Armor. Replica Props Forum user eidylon has made several props but only recently made the jump to work on a full costume.

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