- [Voiceover] Dustin McLean
Claire Max
and Benjamin Martin
Experts in the world of cosplaying and D.I.Y..
Masters of duct tape, cardboard, and hot glue.
Together, they are the D.I.Y. Costume Squad.
Yo guys, what's up? I'm Ben and today,
we are gonna be making a Mega Man suit.
It's gonna be the classic, retro Mega Man suit
from the early video games,
the ones that I'm familiar with,
and it's gonna be made with D.I.Y. techniques,
and household stuff, and other materials you can get
for the cheap. So here we go.
Alright, so like I said, this is the classic Mega Man design
and it actually took 'em a couple tries to get to this one
Mega Man one, we're not gonna do because,
obviously, who wants to walk around dressed up like that?
Mega Man 2 is getting there,
but he has a gun for some reason,
so it wasn't really until Mega Man 3
that they have the design that looks similar
to the Mega Man that we all know and love.
I'm thinkin' the first thing is gonna be a base,
which are gonna be some clothes, pretty simple,
maybe some undies or something.
He does have big arm gauntlets and huge leg pieces,
so probably use some tupperware or something like that.
The helmet has got these two side pieces that light up,
maybe get some LED lights for those,
and then of course, there's the blaster,
which is a very specific shape.
Hoping we can figure that out.
And I wanna make it light up,
I think putting lights on it
just makes it look so much cooler.
First thing we gotta do is do the base clothes,
so I did some shopping. Let's see what we got here.
First off, of course, the gloves.
And these guys were only two dollars.
I couldn't find blue gloves
so I'm gonna end up spray painting these blue.
I got all this stuff at like discount clothing stores.
Let's see here, base shirt, light blue and it's $1.99.
So these are actually lady pants; these were four bucks.
They tend to work better for costumes
so don't be afraid to go check out the lady section.
I couldn't find any shorts,
but I found these dark blue pants,
these were four bucks.
So the only real modifications we have to do to the clothes
is to cut the legs off of these pants to make shorts.
You could also use sweat pants,
I just didn't happen to find any that were blue.
So we're gonna do a more simplified hem technique,
which is just using hot glue.
Hot glue works really good on fabric.
Alright, I'm gonna try 'em on.
Oh, perfect. I feel like I should be in a montage right now.
(makes drum noises)
So that's it for the clothes other than the gloves,
so I'm gonna spray paint those.
Okay, so I'm gonna be using gray primer first,
this is actually about three bucks,
and then a blue spray paint, which was about five.
I'm gonna use the primer first,
just to help this material soak up some of the paint,
and then it'll take the blue color a lot easier.
(action music)
(fast motion sounds)
Alright the gloves are done,
so now it's time to move on to the rest of the body pieces,
which are very big and very bulky and very cartoony,
so, couple options here. Not sure which I'm gonna use.
But I got some garbage cans, these were six dollars.
Some other pieces here, which I might use for the legs,
these were two dollars apiece, I got two of 'em.
Okay, I think I'm actually gonna start with the feet.
I'm thinking about using some serving bowls.
These I got at the 99 cent store.
So before I do anything,
I need to cut a hole in the top of this,
so I can fit my foots into it,
and for that, I'm gonna use a rotary tool.
(electric sawing)
Mmm, plasticky!
I think before I go any further,
I should just reinforce these with some tape.
Got my one foot done,
and now I'm going to trace it onto the other bowl.
(dramatic music)
I have the feet here, ready to go.
They kinda have like a pointy shape,
but I'm thinking I can probably cheat that
if I add something to the toes of these.
I've got, actually...
Excuse me, Ant Man!
Yeah, this is good.
It's got all kinds of random stuff in here.
So it's sort of got that angle to it right there.
So if I cut that up, attach it to the front, boom.
(electric sawing)
Now that I have the shape of the foot,
the toe piece figured out,
I'm attaching them with hot glue and tape.
On the bottom, I'm going to use some elastic,
I'm gonna attach it to the inside of the bowls,
so that they'll stay on my feet.
Brand new, these are probably two or three bucks a roll.
I'm gonna hold off on spray painting them
because I wanna make all the pieces.
Moving on to the legs.
I'm gonna hold onto these, actually.
Little big, we'll see. Might use those for the helmet.
The leg pieces go up to just over his knees.
that might be pretty good.
(electric sawing)
Alright, here we go.
So now that I have it cut, I can draw the shapes
on the top and the bottom of the leg piece.
(electric sawing)
Now, I've been using a rotary tool
to cut all of this plastic stuff out,
but you could totally use a box cutter or some scissors,
and then of course you can get sandpaper
to help smooth out the edges and everything.
Okay, we got Mega Man feets, we got Mega Man legs,
and these are ready to paint, but I'm gonna hold off
on that until I do the arms,
which are pretty simple. Gonna go with these guys.
(electric sawing)
(dramatic music)
Ready for paint.
(dramatic music)
Alright, it's helmet time and I have a few different options
I'm gonna play around with, so let's check 'em out.
I know I mentioned before
I was gonna play around with these lids.
(laughs)
That's a really good shape there.
I don't know, I don't know if I want these.
I think I might use this though.
So I'm not sure if these are the best option,
now that I look at them, so I'm gonna take a look
at some of the helmets I have.
I got football, baseball, I got some skate helmets,
this is like a motorcycle helmet.
This was actually ten bucks at the thrift store.
Oh yeah, that's awesome.
And I think I'm gonna use this piece here
for the widow's peak in the front.
So really, all I gotta do is take this off
and attach it to the front here.
Cool. I think I'm gonna do that.
(heavy metal music)
Okay, this whole thing comes out. Great.
That's it? That's all that's protecting you from the road?
Gonna take the straps off.
(heavy metal music)
So to attach this to the lip of the helmet,
I'm gonna use super glue. I'm gonna use two different kinds.
I'm gonna use regular liquid super glue
and then there's a couple spaces
where the cutting wasn't exact
and I'm gonna fill that in with gel super glue
and then when it hards,
I can sand it to make a nice, smooth edge.
You could also use epoxy, plastic epoxy,
but that takes like 24 hours to dry.
So I got the gluing and sanding stuff done,
I got the base of the helmet looking really good,
and I think it's now time to figure out the side pieces
and I know that they light up, so I got some LEDs.
Kind of pair 'em up with the right shape,
I have a few different shapes here.
All of the stuff was 99 cent store.
Pack of three, 99 cents, pack of four, 99 cents.
Kinda like this one.
Have to trim that to like right there, probably.
(dramatic music)
For the red part of the lights,
we're gonna be using index dividers.
I got this pack at the 99 cent store.
Gonna cut little holes out
and put them on the inside of my side pieces.
Right now, I'm just finding the position for the side pieces
so that I can glue the base plates onto the helmet.
Now it's time for the mohawk.
He's got kind of like a mohawk thing
and then a square right on the front
and so I found some knee pads,
these are garden knee pads,
they're made out of EVA foam,
they're very thick and they're very flexible,
so we're gonna cut these up and do the top pieces.
This has a texture on it,
so I'm gonna sand that texture off.
Helmet is ready to get painted,
now the helmet's gonna be dark blue,
side pieces are gonna be light blue,
and then I have my foam pieces temporarily attached here
so I can paint them light blue while they're curved.
(dramatic metal music)
I have a lighter blue, kind of a baby blue.
This was about four bucks too.
So dark blue.
Helmet is all painted and these pieces are now gonna go
onto the blue official helmet.
(dramatic music)
So here we have all of the Mega Man pieces,
now I could stop here and have a pretty sweet costume,
but I want to take it one step further and do the blaster.
I just so happened to find this perfectly-shaped pitcher.
I was so happy I was dancing in the store.
And this thing was only five bucks.
There is the cannon on the end,
which I'm gonna kind of modify.
Essentially, I'm gonna have to take the spout off
and cut a hole in the bottom so I can put my arm through it.
(laser gun noises)
For the red element on the inside of the blaster,
I'm gonna put the bottom of this cup off.
(dramatic music)
I'm using some cardboard to create a spacer
to hold the red element in place.
(dramatic music)
So the next bit that I'm gonna cut out of this is the side.
There's like a yellow light panel.
For the lights on the inside,
I found these kind of knock-off light sabers
at the 99 cent store.
On the inside, they are just wires with LEDs on them,
so I have red ones for the cannon,
and then a yellow one for the side bar.
(dramatic music)
And I'm just gonna mask off the cannon on the end here
so I don't paint over the red
and then hit it in blue.
(dramatic music)
Ah.
That is so awesome.
It's like a cartoon come to life.
Okay, the moment we've all been waiting for,
time to put all this stuff on.
Oh!
(dramatic music)
Yeah, that's Mega Man.
Okay, blaster time?
(laser noises)
(hydraulic noises)
This is looking pretty sweet,
I think I'm gonna go show it off to the rest of the squad.
- Alright, are we ready to check out
the completed Mega Man costume?
- Yep, let's see it.
- Can't wait, let's see! - Ha!
- Oh, there he is! - Nice!
- [Dustin] Alright, looking good. Whoa, whoa!
Watch where you're pointing that thing!
- Whoa! - Wow!
We have lights.
- Sides light up too.
- Whoa - Oh, cool.
- So I won't get hit by any bikes. - Yeah.
Safety first.
- You're one of the straw gang, right? Like that's...
- Yeah. (laughter)
- You got some nice tap lights action?
- Yeah, I got tap lights on the side too.
- My favorite part is the shorts, not gonna lie.
- Yeah.
- It's lookin' real sexy. - I think those are
everyone's favorite part.
- I like this, that it has belt buckles too.
You might need to wear a belt.
How much did you end up spending on this whole thing?
- Total was about 60 bucks
for the whole thing, including spray paint.
And then if you wanted to just build the blaster,
that was nine dollars. The helmet was about 15.
- Nice.
- Alright, so let us know in the comments
what costumes or characters you want
the Costume Squad to tackle,
and stay tuned because Dustin's up next.
- Yep, I am, I don't know what it's gonna be yet
and you'll have to stay tuned.
- Well then you're gonna have to subscribe to Mashable.
- Yeah! Costume Squad out! - Costume Squad! Go!
(laughter)
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