Once this was complete take one of the hard plastic straws and using the heat gun bend it into the desired shape Add to the end of this a cork or in this case a rubber bottle stopper. I have created a crude guide to show the process. To recreate these I have used kids bubbles and strips of thin foam sheet glued on top. I also cut out a piece to cover the eyes and cut out the holes my son will use to see through. This worked great and helped in giving me the cut-out look needed for each side of the mask. To remove any seams and to stop me filling in the extra edges after I made the mask longer I decided to cut out pieces from the thin foam to cover the mask. The bottom chin piece was copied from the cardboard prototype. This gave a nice sturdy support at the back. You hopefully wont have that Issue if recreating this.Įach piece for the mouth was cut out and numbered for the correct order and glued onto the back of a couple of lollipop sticks. To solve this I cut the foam head to his exact size and added the glasses frame from plastic straws heated and shaped. My son wears glasses so I quickly realised these would get in the way of the eye piece later on. My reason was I had to alter the length of both sides of the mask. But I must of did this 5 or 6 times at least. I have shown the process of measuring and the design I used to cut them out. Getting the mouth pieces to look correct. Star Lord Gun - Bought the Nerf version from Amazon and spray painted itīoot Covers - Going to use foam cut to size Maroon TRG Super Colour Spray 150ml - Leather, Vinyl & Canvas Dye - amazon One Faux leather coat brown - second hand on Ebay One pack of test tube shaped hello kitty bubbles Polycraft SG2000 Paintable Fast Cast Polyurethane Liquid Plastic Casting Resin - 1 Kg Kit One clear plastic Sheet and Red permanent Marker One Metal Angel Eye LED Car illuminated Latching Type 16mm Push Button Switch - Ebay One Male Foam Head from Ebay - No Needed but was very handy for positioning the mask while working Pack of 4 strong plastic twisty drinking straws Packs of light craft Foam sheets - 2mm ( Found these in my local pound shops ) Helagaks star lord helm foam v2.pdo - Pepakura File (Modified to my sons head size ) -Original File is included printed out on A4 sheets of paper.ĮVA Foam - I bought kids play mats from ebay (16 SQ FT Interlocking EVA Soft Foam Floor Mats) - only use one out of the 4 of these mats.
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