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>> Speaker 1: Welcome to Homemade How To where we show you how to make props and
costumes with just stuff from around the house.
>> Speaker 2: That's right, we are gearing up to do a homemade Star Wars Episode VII,
The Force Awakens trailer and we're gonna show you guys how to make the entire
Kylo Ren costume, including the light saber.
>> Speaker 1: But before we get started, we wanna show you guys some fan made
costumes that have been coming in from all over the world.
>> Speaker 2: It's pretty amazing, let's check them out.
>> Speaker 1: First up we've got Taylor Evans from Oklahoma.
He made the Ant-Man suit.
The mouthpiece is exceptional, it looks really cool.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah. >> Speaker 1: All the way from
the United Kingdom, we have Charlotte Hare, who made the Deadpool suit.
>> Speaker 2: I like the pink socks.
That's a nice touch.
>> Speaker 1: Wade Bishop from Tallahassee made the Ant Man suit.
It looks amazing.
>> Speaker 2: She actually thought it was our costume.
[LAUGH] And Mercedes Logar from the Dominican Republic with a Deadpool suit.
She's like, no, I'm Deadpool.
>> Speaker 1: [LAUGH] Really great picture.
>> Speaker 2: And here we have Jesse Bradon Hatt from Nova Scotia,
Canada with his Ant-Man suit.
>> Speaker 1: I like how he used a lot of cardboard for his.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah. Dahl Derbez Rico from Mexico, and
he made Ant-Man suit.
His costume came in second place at a costume contest which is pretty awesome.
>> Speaker 1: But you're first place to us.
>> Speaker 2: Yes.
>> Speaker 1: From the Philippines, we've got Marc Jon Lee.
He made a Batman melka helmet for his son.
>> Speaker 2: It's the cutest thing ever, that's so adorable.
>> [LAUGH] >> Speaker 2: So thank you guys so
much for sending in your work from all over the world, it's really, really cool.
And keep sending us stuff cuz we want to see it.
>> Speaker 1: To start off, we're gonna start with the helmet.
>> Speaker 2: For the helmet, we don't actually have a lot of materials,
it's pretty simple.
What do we got?
>> Speaker 1: So we've got a trashcan with a really cool lid.
We also have some craft foam.
>> Speaker 2: And a milk jug and a serving bowl and of course, cardboard.
>> Speaker 1: We're gonna move to the overhead.
[SOUND] To stop the top of the trashcan from flopping around,
we're gonna use a little bit of gap tape and seal it shut.
You could use duct tape.
>> Speaker 2: Now I'll cut the bottom of the trashcan off and
then cut the can entirely in half.
>> Speaker 1: Next, put the top of the trash can on your head and
measure from the bottom of the lip of the trash can to your jaw.
>> Speaker 2: Yep, mine comes out to six inches.
>> Speaker 1: Measure and cut the black plastic.
>> Speaker 2: And then temporarily tape that to the inside lip
of the trash can lid cuz it's gonna go right back onto your head so
that we can measure the opening from temple to temple.
Then we're gonna cut those pieces, and then glue and
tape the plastic piece to the inside of the lid.
>> Speaker 1: Trace the helmet onto the cardboard.
>> Speaker 2: This is gonna help us create the tapered round look like
the kind of Samurai look that the helmet has.
>> Speaker 1: Cut it out and glue it to the bottom edge of the helmet.
>> Speaker 2: Just so we have kind of a frame of reference,
I'm gonna draw the shapes right onto the helmet.
>> Speaker 1: Using the extra piece from the garbage can,
we're gonna create the angular shape at the bottom of the helmet.
>> Speaker 2: And then to glue the front part on, we're actually using super glue.
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>> Speaker 2: That wraps all the way around to the back.
Very Darth Vader at this point, but that will change with the face piece.
>> Speaker 1: [LAUGH] Take a piece of paper,
wrap it around the front of the helmet.
To figure out how big our piece should be, trace the inside of the helmet.
>> Speaker 2: And then hold that piece that we cut out up to the helmet again,
and you can sketch out those side shapes, the curve shapes.
>> Speaker 1: Temporarily, we're gonna tape the paper onto the helmet.
Find the bridge of the nose and the edge of the eyes and mark those.
>> Speaker 2: Sketch out the eye holes,
make sure you look at some reference photos, they're pretty narrow.
And we will post these pictures on our Facebook page so you can use those for
reference.
Of course cut that out.
>> Speaker 1: We're using a craft foam for the base of the helmet.
Trace the base template for the face plate onto the foam and cut it out.
>> Speaker 2: So put that in place and glue it right onto the helmet.
We're gonna come back to the paper eye template from before and
we're gonna use this to sketch out all of those silver details.
Now it starts off in the center, there are four silver pieces.
I'm sketching this out free hand, I'm just looking at reference photos.
And I'll actually be posting these on our Facebook page as well.
It is a lot of details in here, so I'm only gonna draw one-half
of this because I can use this as the template for both sides.
>> Speaker 1: Trace one-half onto the foam then flip it over, and
trace the other half to complete all the details.
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>> Speaker 2: And we get to cut this out all over again.
>> Speaker 1: Yay!
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>> Speaker 2: The mouthpiece that goes on the top of the helmet, there's two layers.
>> Speaker 1: For the bottom layer lay down a piece of cardboard and
we're using the silver pieces as a guide.
>> Speaker 2: And the nose goes up into the eye area.
The sides go all the way down the outside ring.
You will have to measure this up your face just to get the right measurements.
And then there's a point on the bottom corner that comes and
then it goes back up.
Now again, I'm only drawing half of this because I fold it over, trace it and
now I have the completed shape.
>> Speaker 1: Trace the base piece of cardboard onto the milk jug.
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>> Speaker 1: Draw the cut out segments which are on the top and along the sides.
There are three little slits on the top, and
there are four segments down each side.
Next cut those out with an X-ACTO blade.
>> Speaker 2: Then glue this plastic plate right onto our cardboard, so
that's the bottom layer of the mouthpiece.
For the top layer of the mouthpiece,
we have this serving bowl which has a pretty cool texture on it.
>> Speaker 1: Trace the mouthpiece onto the bowl.
Looking at reference photos,
draw the outside piece which fits inside of the shape that we just traced.
>> Speaker 2: There are two rectangles cut out of the bottom segment of
the mouth plate.
There is a rounded hole on the top left and
then on the bottom right of the mouth place there's another rounded off hole.
Again, you can cut those out with scissors and a blade.
I'm going to use a Dremel tool.
And there are scratches on the face plates, and
we're using the utility blade to scuff up the plate.
>> Speaker 1: The front plate sits up a little bit from the base of the cardboard
plate, so we're gonna use a couple of pieces of cardboard fillers just to
create that height.
>> Speaker 2: We're gonna just spray some of these details away with some black.
>> Speaker 1: The mouthpiece will be black, as well.
>> Speaker 2: And then these details, of course, are going to be metallic silver.
>> Speaker 1: Okay, nice and painted.
So let's glue that mouthpiece to the helmet.
There are two pieces on the bottom of the helmet that sort of fit on the inside.
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>> Speaker 1: To attach the silver detail, first we're gonna need to
peel back a little bit of the black foam that's on the nose piece and
then kind of wedge it in there.
>> Speaker 2: That helps hold it in place because we're gonna be very meticulously
gluing this starting from the center.
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>> Speaker 1: To cover up the eyes of the helmet we're using a black sheer fabric
that I'm just attaching that to the insides of helmet.
>> [MUSIC] >> Speaker 1: Wow.
>> Speaker 2: Awesome.
>> [LAUGH] >> Speaker 2: All right, so,
I think this is it, right?
I got the Star Wars shirt on, the helmet, I'm pretty much done, right?
>> Speaker 1: No, we're gonna make the whole thing, so
let's move on to the clothes.
>> [SOUND] >> Speaker 2: So,
we have all kinds of black clothes here.
We have some black pants, which are kind of leathery looking.
>> Speaker 1: We also have this black faux leather jacket.
>> Speaker 2: For kind of the outer gown, a dress.
>> Speaker 1: There's sort of a ripped pattern on these sleeves.
We're using some additional black fabric for that.
There's a headscarf.
So that this black burlap.
>> Speaker 2: And then, of course, the boots.
Now, we found these boots at a discount store, brand new, seven dollars.
>> Speaker 1: The black dress has a slit down
the very center as well as two slits on each side of the hip.
>> Speaker 2: And then if they're our sleeves cut those off.
>> Speaker 1: For the sleeves lay your black fabric down flat, and
what we're doing is we're creating pleats by simply folding a bit of fabric over,
hot gluing it, and moving slowly but surely down the extent of the fabric.
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>> Speaker 2: Hot glue the fabric to the shoulder first, and
then wrap it around the arm and hot glued it closed.
>> Speaker 1: There may be a bit of excess fabric at the seam,
just cut that excess fabric off.
We have two yards of burlap fabric that we're using for the scarf as well as for
the small cape.
>> Speaker 2: And we're making the cape a separate piece.
We're going to measure that out on my back just below the halfway point on my back.
>> Speaker 1: Cut a nice wide strip of the fabric and
close both ends of the fabric and hot glue it shut.
So what you essentially have is just a big circle of fabric.
For your hood scarf, first put the fabric over your head, twist the fabric
into a figure eight, and then drape the remaining fabric over your neck.
>> Speaker 2: He has a very wide belt and we'll start off
using a piece of cardboard and cover that with some black pleather material.
>> Speaker 1: For the belt buckle use some craft foam.
Draw and cut out the details.
>> [MUSIC] >> Speaker 2: We have
these luggage straps which come with some pretty handy clips and so
we're gonna use those and attach them to the inside of the belt, and
that's gonna act as our closing mechanism for the belt.
>> Speaker 1: All right, let's get dressed.
>> Speaker 2: All right.
>> [LAUGH] >> Speaker 2: [LAUGH] Pants first, right?
>> Speaker 1: We'll do the pants first.
>> [LAUGH] >> Speaker 1: Next layer is the coat.
And now
the dress.
>> Speaker 2: My favorite part.
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>> Speaker 1: All right, so the cape.
>> [LAUGH] >> Speaker 2: Hood.
Whoa.
>> [LAUGH] [LAUGH] >> Speaker 2: All right, that's it,
I think that's, wait.
I think we're missing something.
I think we're missing the light saber.
>> Speaker 1: Just gotta move everything back in and start over again.
>> Speaker 2: [LAUGH] All right, let's do it.
>> Speaker 1: All right.
>> Speaker 2: Light saber time.
For the light saber, we have plastic toy golf clubs.
>> Speaker 1: Turkey basters.
>> Speaker 2: Headphones.
>> Speaker 1: Razors.
>> Speaker 2: A red jump rope.
>> Speaker 1: Clothes pins.
>> Speaker 2: A flashlight.
>> Speaker 1: A light wand.
>> Speaker 2: A water squirt tube, I think.
>> [LAUGH] >> Speaker 2: [LAUGH] I don't know.
>> Speaker 1: And some blue jump rope.
>> Speaker 2: Start off by cutting the handle off of the golf club.
>> Speaker 1: The flashlight will fit into the handle, but
we need to make sure that we have access to the batteries.
So first you want to cut off the bottom of the handle.
>> Speaker 2: These plastic toy golf clubs come with these screw ends, so
cut one of those ends off and glue it to the battery end of the flashlight,
cutting the rest of the handle off.
>> Speaker 1: Then glue the other end of the screw into the bottom of the handle.
>> Speaker 2: So now this piece screws off and we can get access to the batteries,
but then we can also screw the end of the handle on to complete
the light saber handle.
>> Speaker 1: Now we can glue the flashlight into place.
Push on the plastic to find where the button is and mark where that is.
>> Speaker 2: So take the top part of what's left of the handle and glue that
onto the top of the flashlight, and cut the excess off of the rest of the handle.
>> Speaker 1: Use another screw piece of the golf club and cut it so
that it fits into the top of the handle.
>> Speaker 2: So we're going to put the handle aside cuz
we're going to need that for later.
We have these water tube thingies and
I'm gonna cut actually both ends of this one off.
I'm gonna take a second one and cut some of that off and attach it to
our first tube, and we are gonna use some super glue and some clear tape.
What you call these?
>> Speaker 1: Magic wands.
>> Speaker 2: Magic wands, we have magic wands.
We're actually gonna use this shiny material that's on the inside because it
catches light and spreads the light.
>> Speaker 1: We are gonna roll that up and
then stuff that into the inside of the light saber tube.
>> Speaker 2: Now taking another screw end from our golf club toys, glue that into
the end of our light saber beam so that we can actually attach it to our hilt.
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>> Speaker 1: So we're gonna be using that blue rope for some of the wire detail but
we actually found that the container that is holding the rope will be great for
the hilt.
Trace the handle of the light saber onto the bottom of the piece, and
cut out a hole at the bottom.
Next, put the piece on the top of the hilt and glue it and tape it together.
>> Speaker 2: Next are the two side pieces, and we're gonna be using PVC
pipes and turkey basters and some of the leftover golf club segments.
Cutting sections out of the plastic golf club pole so
that they're just longer than our PVC pipe.
These are gonna be cut in half but then the ends kinda scoop out a little bit,
so basically that you can put these on the PVC pipe and
you get that kind of lip that sticks out on each end.
And trace those pieces onto the side of the hilt, kind of at the top
to create that t shape, cut that out, and then we're gonna glue that into place.
>> Speaker 1: And that's it for the main part of the hilt.
>> Speaker 2: That's right, and we're gonna move onto the details.
>> Speaker 1: We'll need to cut the turkey basters,
so eye the appropriate length from the hilt.
>> Speaker 2: There are softer plastic turkey basters, but
these are kind of tough so I'm gonna use a Dremel to cut them.
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>> Speaker 2: There is a detailed hole cut out of the top of the hilt.
>> Speaker 1: Looking at all the reference photos, fill in the details.
We're using plastic clothespins and some zip ties.
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>> Speaker 2: There's a section at the bottom with an orange insert, so
I'm gonna create that out of a Popsicle stick and
some clear orange divider material, some gaffer tape, and washers.
The button for the flashlight, I'm going to add a cap from a pencil eraser.
>> Speaker 1: For the segments along the bottom, use razor handles.
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>> Speaker 2: There are some silver details and
some wire on the inside of the hilt that you can see through this hole, and so
I'm going to start off with using our gray foam piece and some aluminum foil tape and
then some headphone wires.
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>> Speaker 1: Here's the hilt, we're gonna spray paint that black.
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>> Speaker 1: Except for the end, we'll paint that silver.
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>> Speaker 2: And here's some of our little silver details and
our black pieces.
>> Speaker 1: We'll spray paint the beams red and the end of the tube red.
>> Speaker 2: Now that we have our hilts and all of our pieces painted
it's time to attach them all, check your reference photos.
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>> Speaker 2: There's a red wire that runs out of this hole all the way down to
the bottom of the hilt, and so we're using a red tube jump rope.
>> Speaker 1: To light up the side beams, we're using these LED lights.
>> Speaker 2: Trimming the plastic so that they fit right inside those
PVC pieces that we have on the side of the hilt.
And then once we put our side beams on they light up.
That is the light saber.
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>> Speaker 2: And we have detachable beams, which is pretty rad, and
they all light up.
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>> Speaker 1: Now that's Kylo Ren.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel awesome.
This is like- >> Speaker 1: [LAUGH] It's really scary.
>> [LAUGH] >> Speaker 2: The helmet
was surprisingly simple, not a lot of pieces to it.
>> Speaker 1: Exactly, and then the light saber,
I feel like that really brings it together.
>> Speaker 2: Definitely. The force is strong with this one.
>> Speaker 1: And that's how you make a Kylo Ren suit and light saber.
>> Speaker 2: That's right, so come back in two weeks because
our homemade Star Wars Episode Seven trailer drops only on Cinefix.
You wanna subscribe.
>> Speaker 1: This is actually our last Homemade How-To for the season.
>> Speaker 2: It's true.
It's been such an amazing year.
The experience has been great.
You guys have been overwhelmingly positive about the show.
It's been a great, great experience.
>> Speaker 1: And from Gurro, to now Kilo Ren, from Ant Man to the raptures, I mean-
>> Speaker 2: I feel like we've done so
many movies this year.
>> Speaker 1: It's been pretty great, really great.
>> Speaker 2: But yeah, we're gonna be back in two weeks, so come on back, and
see us in Star Wars Episode Seven.
>> Speaker 1: Bye.