Masters of duct tape, cardboard, and hot glue.
Making cosplay out of everyday materials.
They are the D.I.Y. COSTUME SQUAD.
- Hey, welcome to the show.
I'm Dustin, and with me today is Tahnee Harrison.
Thanks for being here.
- Thank you for having me.
- You're an amazing cosplayer.
I've been following your stuff.
I'm a big fan.
- I have been working on a lot lately.
I've been working on Yennefer Vengerberg from The Witcher.
I've been working on The Little Mermaid.
I've been working on Lara Croft.
I love making really, really powerful women.
- So speaking of powerful women, what are you gonna be making for us today?
I'm going to be making Wonder Woman.
But we're doing Gal Gadot's version, the live action movie version, so
I'm super excited.
- And this costume's gonna make an appearance in Ben's Homemade Movies
episode, so be sure and check that out.
So you've made this Wonder Woman costume in the past.
- I have. - Sort of the very fancy version.
I was very impressed by it.
- Thank you. - What are you thinking for
the D.I.Y version?
- Maybe starting with some items you might already own and
then just kind of building on that.
So if we take a look at one of the images from the movie we see that she's got
a bodice.
She has a skirt and then we have the bracers which go on her forearms and
then we have the arm band.
All in all I would say we have a lot of craft foam in our future.
- Yeah, craft foam and spray paint, my favorite.
- (Laugh) - All right, cool.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
I'm gonna leave you to it.
- Thank you.
- See you soon.
- See ya.
Okay guys, I think the first main piece that we're gonna do is her bodice.
So, for that, I'm going to start with a corset.
I picked this up on Amazon, but it was 20 bucks, and
I'm gonna start with that as a base, and I'm also gonna use some craft foam,
can find at Michael's, it's super cheap.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to place the craft foam right on top.
And I'm just going to be sketching those shapes that she has.
This doesn't have to be perfect, that's the best part, you're just sketching.
This is gonna be the exact same on the other side so
I'll just be cutting two of these.
One thing I do recommend when I am cutting multiple pieces of foam is those
clips because it just hold the foam together so
when you're cutting it doesn't move around on you.
- Want me to grab you some clips so you can just do it?
- That would be great.
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Those are just gonna lay like that but obviously we're gonna need to make these
other pieces here and just continue so it's basically more or less covered.
I'm trying to keep these all together so I know the order that they go in because
once you're done you're gonna have like a million pieces.
(Laugh) So now we're going to switch to creating that gold
detailing that goes on top of the bodice.
I'm going to focus on creating the design for half of it, and
then just duplicating that by cutting two of them.
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So I'm going to add a bit more just for dimension and visual interest.
- I'm really excited to see how this one comes together.
It's got a lot of craft foam which makes it very fun and cartoony.
And the way she's gonna attach it to this corset.
I think it's gonna work really well.
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- So now I'm going to take my heat gun and
I'm going to heat up some of these pieces kind of give it more shape.
So, now we're going to be spray painting our bodice pieces and
I'm using this burgundy satin color master paint.
This was about $4 or $5.
Okay, so the burgundy spray paint that we used isn't as thick as I would like and
we're having trouble covering that black Sharpie with it.
So I'm going to hit all these with a gray primer, and
then I'm going to go over that after it's dry with the burgundy spray paint again.
So now I'm going to paint that design detail that I made for
the bodice with some gold.
Cost me about $4.
But before I do that, I'm going to hit it with some primer.
- Alright awesome paint is dry and it's looking really good.
- Now that we have them all painted and they are dry and ready to go we're going
to actually just start hot glueing it directly to the corset.
- Love it.
- Now it's time to glue on the gold embellishment at the top.
Alright now it's time for Wonder Woman's belt.
So I'm just gonna free hand this and hope for the best
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So before I add this piece, I'm going to
spray paint this bottom piece silver.
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And now, we're ready to glue all the pieces for our belt together before we
glue the entirety of the belt onto the bottom of the corset.
And now, I'm just going to extend those straps around the sides and the backs.
I'm gonna make those now outta foam.
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Okay, so now I'm going to make sure that I can close this in the back.
And to that, I'm gonna use some velcro that I picked up for $4.
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Okay, so now we're ready to do Wonder Woman's arm bands.
And what I would recommend, is just having a tape measure, and
just figuring out how big around your bicep is.
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I'm gonna cut two of them, because in a layer.
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Everything's glued down and now we're ready for paint.
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All right, so the next step is Wonder Woman's bracers.
So I'm actually going to use a thicker piece of craft foam,
because I want it to be a bit sturdier.
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Okay, so I'm just gonna add some little layer pieces again.
And for these more detailed pieces I'm using the thinner craft film.
Okay, so now we are going to hit these little detail pieces with gold and
then we're going to spray paint these larger vest pieces with silver.
And now we're going to shape them with a heat gun.
So now I'm going to add our gold embellishments to our braces.
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Okay so now we're gonna make Wonder Woman's tiara which is the most fun
because Wonder Woman's tiara has like always been a big deal.
We're going to use that thin foam again.
Voila.
It's nice to spend a little extra time on this because this is literally going
smack dab in the middle of your forehead.
So that's just going
to go like that.
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And now we're ready for Wonder Woman's gladiator skirt.
And the fabric I'm gonna be using is actually this really cheap vinyl that I
got on clearance at a fabric store for $9 a yard.
I got an entire yard, which is probably a little bit overkill.
So, you probably don't need that much fabric.
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So know that I have all of my blue pieces cut out what I'm going to do is I'm going
to fake those layers by taking a black sharpie and just drawing some lines.
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Okay so I'm going to glue all
of the pieces to the underside of the corset.
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Okay so, I'm gonna go back and I'm going to create some details with my sponge, and
some acrylic paints,
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And also with a white permanent ink pen for the scratches.
Now for Wonder Woman's boots I'm going to be using a pair of wedge gold sandals that
I actually already had, but I can usually find them for about 10 bucks.
I will be breaking this up into one piece of thicker foam for the kneecap,
a longer piece of the thinner foam for the shin, and
just a couple pieces of the thinner foam to cover the foot portion.
All the boot pieces are cut now, so we're ready to go outside and paint.
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So all of our boot
pieces are dried and
ready to be assembled.
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I got this from a fabric store and it's just felt.
It's a $1 or $2 I wanna say a yard, but I it will work really well for
the boot straps.
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So now that we're finished with Wonder Woman's boots it's time to work on
Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, and for that I'm gonna be using this diamond
braid nylon rope that I picked up at the hardware store for $5.
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(Laugh) So now we're going to take these pieces of felt that Dustin cut,
and we're going to assemble them into a cross body holster so
we can hold the rope at our side.
(Music) All right guys, everything's built.
Now the fun part, time to put it all on.
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All right, that's it guys,
let's go see what Dustin thinks.
- Okay I am ready to see the finished Wonder woman I think she's coming in now.
Yes, my gosh.
This is amazing.
- Thank you. - Wow, I am short next to Wonder Woman.
- (Laugh) - But that's okay.
Love the wig. You got a shield now?
- I do. I picked this up for
about $25 on Amazon and it's pretty legit, I think.
- Yeah, that's a Wonder Woman shield right there.
- Yeah.
- This turned out great. So much craft foam.
- Yes, a ton of craft foam.
The boots alone are just all craft foam.
- Those are almost like an Iron Man boot to me.
The way the panels fit together.
- Yeah, you can actually bend your knees if you need to.
- She can run, she can jump.
- I can run, I can jump.
(Laugh) - Do you think you could really fight
some crime in this?
- I don't know if the foam would protect me too much.
- Yeah. - But,
I feel I'd look pretty cool doing it, so, hey.
All right, well thanks for watching.
And thank you Tahnee for joining us.
- Thank you.
- Excellent work. I love it.
Let us know in the comments what other DIY costumes you would like to see us make and
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- All right, I am going to catch a ride on out of here on my invisible plane.
Bye, guys.
- Yes, invisible plane.
Actually worked.
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