I found a photo of a stormtrooper helmet, then printed it out the size I wanted it. I used white foam (that Foamies stuff -- you get a big sheet of it for $.79 -- it's 2 or 3 mm thick) to make the background piece, then cut another to make the detail at the bottom and the forehead part. I used scrap black foam that I happened to have to make the black details. For the eyes, Tom and I went to a dollar store and got a pair of sunglasses. I trimmed one lens, to make it fit the pattern. If I had to do it over, I would have gotten the sunglasses first, then made the eye part of the pattern to accommodate the lenses. It's all hot-glued together.
There are two slits in the black nose piece because Tom specifically requested "breathing holes."
Then the back was just a scrap of elastic and two toggles. I reinforced the slot with another little square of foam, because this stuff isn't all that durable by itself.
The toggles let it be adjustable (it's got to be a bit more snug for Asher to have a turn). Plus, it's hard as hell to size an elastic headband on an active kid, so I didn't want to have to sew it.
3 comments:
Found your blog when I googled storm trooper mask's. Thank you for blogging about it. My general ideas can be done and used your site to prove to my kiddo's it would work.
I use your idea to desguise myself. Your mask had a great success these days at Eleventh Japan Expo 2010 (a Japanese and Comics Convention near Paris)
Some pictures
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=452407&id=714275441&l=6497c8617b
That is so great! Thank you for sharing the photos!
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