How to Make Shoulder Armor for Cosplay?

First, you need to know this cosplay tutorial doesn’t only make sense on making the shoulder armor for Lightning cosplay. It can be also used for many other characters. You can make some changes on the material too. For example, real clay or paper clay can be adopted. This tutorial is created by RoxyRoo and it has been cited by many other cosplay fans. Thanks, RoxyRoo. Many stunning cosplay works are shared in her gallery. Just take a look, you may be inspired.

How to Make Shoulder Armor for Cosplay

How I Made My Own Suzumiya Haruhi Garage Kit?

Suzumiya Haruhi leaves a deep impression for lots of people in different age groups. Then, have you even thought of making a Suzumiya Haruhi Garage Kit? Below, we are going to share Suzumiya Haruhi Garage Kit tutorial with you. Just take a look.

First show you a picture of the finished Suzumiya Haruhi Garage Kit.

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Step 1. Polish the white model and paint it white.

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Step 2. Get eyes and mouth covered and then coloring the face and ears.

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Step 3. The complexion is mixed by myself, seeming a little orange because of bad photographing skill, XD.

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Step 4. Like above method, paint the neck.

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Step 5. Paint legs and arms with the same color of the neck.

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Step 6. This one seems much better.

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Step 7. Take a look at the whole body in advance, even it hasn’t been finished.

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Step 8. Cover white color on her costume and complexion.

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Step 9. Paint it to be fluorescent yellow and a little fluorescent red.

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Step 10. Then paint the rest part to be blue.

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Step 11. Paint parts of the shoes to be white.

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Step 12. Paint the soles light yellow.

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Step 13. Cover the painted soles by paper and paint the instep parts to be light blue.

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Step 14. Paint the hair chocolate.

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Step 15. Draw her eyes. Use pens whose traces can be easily cleared away without affecting oil paint below. This should be the most difficult step. First, draw the eyepupil. If you are not good at painting, draw it by pen directly. It will be time-consuming. Be more patient please.

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Step 16. Modify some small details and dull finish.

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Are you inspired by this cute Suzumiya Haruhi Garage Kit? Believe in yourself and you can do better. Just one tip: Be patient!

How to Make World of Warcraft Crystal Spire of Karabor?

Crystal Spire of Karabor is an epic one-handed mace for healers. It is a long-awaited weapon for lots of World of Warcraft cosplay lovers. Some people buy it. But some people are interested in making it by themselves. So, if planning to make it personally, how should you do?

1Step 1: Analyze. Take a detailed look at the design drawing and draw lines on some crucial parts to make sure the size and structure.

2Step 2: Cut the boards. After drawing down the shape and cut them off from the board.

3Step 3: Cut. Put the paperboard on EVA and cut the drawn shape off.

4Step 4: Bond. According to different angles, bond those EVA boards, from flat surfaces to stereo surfaces.

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6Step 5: Combine. After all components have been bonded, combine them to form a whole.

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8Step 6: Stick flowers on. When the subject has been finished, you should stick flowers on.

9Step 7: Finish.

10So, to make the Crystal Spire of Karabor is not so difficult, right? Honestly speaking, once you are interested, you will find easy to make any prop for cosplay.

How to Protect Your “Open Chest” for Cosplay?

For sure, you may meet a cartoon character whose chest is open. So, how should you protect your bust? Here is a cosplay tutorial made by Abessinier. She is a German girl, showing us lots of stunning cosplay works in her gallery. Thanks, Abessinier, for sharing us such a helpful tutorial. Take a closer look below. (You can download pictures or click “view the image” to see words on them clearly :D)

How to Protect Your “Open Chest” for Cosplay
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How to make Vocaloid Magnet headphones

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What you need:

  • Plain head band. Preferably white but any colour will do.
  • Black lace or black and white ribbon.
  • Foam sheet. Colour of your choice.
  • Black cardboard
  • Craft glue
  • Hot glue
  • Craft wire or thin wire
  • Thin black ribbon
  • Black fabric
  • Interfacing
  • Polyester stuffing
  • Laminator and laminating sheets (if you don’t have a laminator you can still make the headphones, just skip the laminating steps)
  • Compass
  • Stanley knife
  • You will need to download this template as well: Wings and Circle Design

Steps:

1) Using hot glue, glue the black and white ribbon or lace over the headband and let it dry.

2) Print out the template for the wings and laminate it. This will make it a stronger stencil.

3) Using your stanely knife, cut out the template and trace it twice on black cardboard. Cut out the cardboard and using craft glue, glue it down on your foam sheet. NOTE make sure your wings are not facing the same direction, make sure you have a left, and a right wing.

4) Print out the template for the Circle Design and laminate it. Cut out the circles.

5) Using your compass measure a distance of 3.5cm and draw 2 circles on your foam sheet. Cut them out and glue on the circle designs, one design per foam circle. If you laminated the circle design, it’s best to hot glue it. if not, craft glue should work for unlaminated paper.

6) Using the same compass distance, draw 2 circles on interfacing and cut it out.

7) Cut out 4 squares from your black fabric, the squares should fit the interfacing circles with extra space around.

8 ) Iron on the interfacing circles onto a black fabric square each.

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9) Place an interfaced square on top of another square without the interfacing and sew around the circle leaving a gap big enough to turn the circle inside out.

10) Trim off the excess fabric,leave a 1cm border around the sewing. Turn the circle inside out and stuff with polyester stuffing and sew down.

11) Repeat steps 9 and 10 for the other fabric square.

12) Grab a circle design and a wing, find the right spot you want it in and flip the two over, draw the outline on the circle where the wing and circle over lap. Then hot glue it down. Repeat for other wing.

13) Cut off 50cm of craft wire, fold it in half and twist them together. Find the middle of the wire and place a thick marker in this spot. Bend the wire to make a U shape. Roughly 10cm from the tip of the U bend it off the 2 ends at a right angle in opposite directions, with remain wire curve it into a circle, the circle should be same size as your circle design. Twist together the remaining wire around the circle. Hot glue it onto your circle design. Repeat.

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14) Grab your headband and place it inside the circle roughly 2 – 2.5cm into the circle. Mark the overlapping spot, then hot glue it on. Do the same for the other side

11) Cut off 50cm of craft wire and again fold in half and twist. Using hot glue, glue thin black ribbon onto the wire. The wire should be sandwiched between 2 layers of ribbon. One on top and one below it.

15) Cut a small amount of black fabric and sew a small rectangle. This will be your microphone so make it small. Stuff it with polyester stuffing and place one end of the ribbonwire into the rectangle and seal it off with hot glue. (you can also glue a layer of the foam sheet on the bottom of the microphone to give it a bit of extra colour)

16) Glue down the other end of the ribboned wire on either side of you headphones, you should place it directly under the headband.

17) The last step is to glue the black circles you made before on the inside of your headphones, they should fit perfectly. It’s best to glue the interfaced side to the foam wings, that way it’s nice and soft for your ears.

There we have it, Vocaloid Magnet headphones! Check out my other stuff at my deviantart page click here for my tutorials on How to make your own lolita maid headdress, Lucy Heartfilia’s whip from Fairy Tail or How to recycle your old manga into Lolita hats.

Thanks for reading! Feel free to comment on my page or here for any other tutorials you would like to see o(^0^)V