Last year I made this chest piece of combat armor from fallout four and I just used thin foam pieces and painted them green. This worked okay but I'm remaking it to be 100x better and I have tried EVERYTHING I could find. Modge podge, wood glue, wall filler, foam. And everything you could still see the cardboard texture through. The wall filler would just crack and be too thin and you could see a bumpy texture form underneath in the cardboard. I thought about just buying aluminum flashing and cutting real metal but there's no way I'll have to do that for every metal looking project. Please help me find another solution guys

So I'm going to attempt to make some boots out of EVA for a GoW cosplay and several tutorials I've seen have basically included gluing/screwing foam (usually 10mm or that foam flooring for like gyms) to the bottom of some shoes and building off of that.

Well if I'm averaging like 20k steps a day at a con, how long should I expect these things to last? I already have to worry about the glue holding up and it not falling apart from movement, I don't want to fear literally walking through them as well.

So this is my first ever project out of a 3d print, bought it off Etsy as a diy kit and I’m just having so many issues with it but the second one that needs tackled is the guy, even though listed as diy, still glued some of the parts together haphazardly. Read that acetone will eat the glue but not the pla so I used some of that and it’s just not working as I thought. The acetone dries so fast that the residue glue hardens again and spreads all around leaving this white stuff. any help at all would be useful

Very unusual project for me))

i was wondering if there was anyway to make the wings float by using magnets, becaue i have seen how if u counterforce the magnets it like "floats". sm like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOFKhwjM69E

wondering if anyones ever tired this before thx!

I’m looking to cosplay Angel Devil from Chainsaw Man and I wanted to create mechanical wings for him, i want it to move natural and flowy and be able to be lightweight yet quiet, is there any advice I can receive regarding the mechanical parts?
Edit: I’m not looking to commission anyone I just want advice \^\^

Just a nice commissioned brooch for a Corbeau cosplay.

These magnet drawings are not to scale, its just to visualize.

Hello,
does anyone have any experience with sound systems inside masks ? I am making a plague doctor cosplay and would like a voice changer inside the mask (not mounted on the chest, because I want the electronics inside the mask for easy removal and not fiddling with multiple cables going through my shirt and whatnot). I am using an INMP411 omnidirectional microphone, MAX98457 amplifier and a Teensy 4.0 microcontroller, with a 2W 8ohm speaker.

My main problem is the feedback. Unfortunately, the microphone and speaker are a few cm apart, and even if I tried all manners of software noise cancellation, AEC, half-duplexing, adaptive notching, low and high passes, foam insulation (not neoprene, don't have that one), pressing the speaker against a mesh leading to the outside of the mask (like a grate), the mask resonates so loudly that the microphone picks that up anyway and creates a horrible pitch reverb feedback.

I'm at my wits end, been at it since morning and nothing works so far. Tried looking for unidirectional microphones, but couldn't find any ones that wouldn't cost an insane amount.

If anyone has any tips, it would help me immensly!

Looking for a realistic full head mask for sun-wukong, not looking for any specific version of him.

Hello! This is my first time making a large prop like this. The design is mostly my own headcanons, and my interpretation includes the tail design looking like empty space inbetween the base and tip of the tail. I intended to stick em together with two acrylic sticks I got from the baking section at Michaels and while attempting to hot glue them together, the pieces ended up falling apart after testwearing. I'm wondering if I made the tip of the tail TOO heavy or if it could be solved.

Another note I'll mention, I built the tail with cardboard and shaped it with paper mache so I'm worried about that weighing down the tail in some sense.

(also please do not mind the state of my room Im desperate to get this solved)

Doing a bit of testing with this KROMA Edge Sprayable Chrome and putting it through its phases.. sprayed it on TPU after it cures. I’ll do a flex Test 💪

Im worried about the resistence of eva if i make a sole to the boot i made with eva.

What alternatives can I use to wear these EVA boots without worrying about them tearing?

Roque Trader Cassia Orsellio cosplay, Elysian drop trooper, and standard Guard! Ready to fight the enemies of mankind.

Now I need to make more mannequin heads

No base black base, no multiple layers, no extended 10+ days process !!
Been testing this product extensively for three months in a multitude of surfaces.. this is done on 3d Print TPU..
It’s non yellowing, non migratory ( it doesn’t haze up)
EDIT: KROMA EDGE

Really fun to make! Modelled in Blender, printed on Bambu P1P in 3 parts, sanded for hours then painted with grey base paint then silver, and roughed up with sandpaper and dark brown acrylics for weathering. The feather is made out of foam with posing wire through the middle.

Just finished I-no's guitar, happy to share it with you ^_^

Bookbinding isn’t my usual craft! But I took a stab at it for this palm quire and I’m pretty happy with the results. Faux leather and handmade paper, stitched together by machine. If I make another one I think I’m going to handstitch the cover on with a thicker thread to give it a better handmade appearance.

I really want to cosplay as Lurien The Watcher from Hollow Knight. Looking at his mask, it is clear that it would be hard to see out of it. I consider myself an amateur, and can’t really afford expensive supplies. This isn’t really meant to be a high-end cosplay, just a simple mask that I’ll be able to see out of for a few hours at least. I have cardboard, but I’m assuming that that might not necessarily work? However, I am willing to go to a local craft store, such as Hobby lobby, to get extra materials I might need. Looking at where the hole in the mask from the image is, it seems like if I cross eye, I will be able to see through it. However, that probably would give me a pretty bad headache. Is there anyway I would be able to make extra holes of the sort for eyes that would not be very visible?

A buddy of mine commissioned me to make this sweet Mark V helmet from Halo: Reach! Good timing with the new game coming out.

The sword is made up of entirely of wood that painted, the issue is that the grip hurt my palm when I tried swinging it too much so what should I do

I was thinking of sanding it down or removing those part and replacing with with a softer material I’m not sure as I still wanna have that blocky look