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Masters of duct tape, cardboard, and hot glue,
making cosplay out of every day materials.
They are the 'DIY Costume Squad'.
(Sound) - Hey, welcome to the show, I'm "Dustin",
and I'm going to be making a DIY 'Spiderman' suit today.
You guys have been asking for one in the comments.
Now, we've made 'Spiderman' in the past for 'Homemade Movies'.
We made one a few years ago for 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2', and
Ben just recently did one for his 'Homemade Movies' episode.
But I'm gonna walk you through the whole process and
show you how to make this using regular clothes and every day materials, so
let's take a look at the costume.
So you've got the red and
blue elements, I'll be able to piece some different types of fabric together,
and then, of course, draw all the lines on here with some markers.
Looks like he almost has some little gadgets attached to his side and
then he has some kind of cool bracelets, probably for his web shooters.
Got the mask, of course, and like the really thick eyes.
Then, of course, he's got the spider emblem on the chest and on the back.
But other than that, it's gonna be just a lot of piecing together the red and
blue fabric and then drawing all the lines on.
So there are a few different ways you could approach this.
Now, my first idea was to use these full body spandex suits, but
these are like $35 a piece, they're really, really cool.
But then it occurred to me that, if you're gonna spend the money buying two
of these suits, you should probably just buy a 'Spiderman' costume.
So, instead of doing that, I'm going to show you
how to make this costume totally DIY just using regular clothes.
Regular shirts,
regular pants, and I'm gonna see if I can make this thing totally DIY.
I am going to start by making the mask.
And now, this is something I did buy online, and it's just a red spandex mask,
and this was $10.
When I did this for 'Homemade Movies',
I kind of made this out of an old t-shirt and it took forever.
Grab this cool styrofoam mannequin head that I bought at the craft store,
that comes in pretty handy.
Now I'm going to add the eyes.
All right, so I got the basic shapes drawn out.
What I’m going to try to do here is mask off this shape of the white part and
then spray paint it white.
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Okay, ready for paint.
All right, so I’m going to use white spray paint.
This costs around $4, but let’s be honest, I’m going to use about $0.10 worth.
Okay, paint is dry, let’s take off the masking tape, and see what we got.
Nice, that's the white part, and then obviously there's a thick black edge, and
so, for that, I'm gonna use craft foam, this big sheet was $0.99.
All right, I'm gonna kind of draw the shape out on a piece of paper first.
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Okay, pretty good, kind of looks like 'Deadpool'.
Next up is just drawing all the lines, so
I'm just going to use a thick black marker.
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Okay, I think that is it, that's the finished 'Spiderman' mask,
looking pretty good.
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All right, so moving on to the rest of the suit.
I have two different shirts that I'm gonna mix together.
I've got this red one, kind of a sporty zip up.
This was $10, it's very 'Spiderman'-y, I must say.
And I've also got this blue one.
This was $6 and this is a women's shirt.
I'm gonna cut these apart and put them together to make one 'Spiderman' shirt.
I'm going to cut the red one so that the blue one will be revealed underneath.
So I'm going to use the charcoal to just kind of draw out the shapes.
So I did half, I'm going to lay it out on the table and just match the other half.
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So I drew on all the shapes, now I'm just going to cut this out,
I'm scared to cut it.
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Ta-da, all right, so now I'm gonna put this on top of the blue shirt.
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I'm gonna tape this in place a little bit, just to help when I'm gluing.
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Okay, so now I'm going to glue the red fabric onto the blue fabric with some
hot glue.
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Okay, before I glue this last back part, this is all a little baggy on me.
So I'm going to cut a slit down the back, and then tighten it up, glue it down so
it's a nice, tight 'Spiderman' fit.
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Okay, cool, all the outside edges are glued together.
But I'm gonna flip it inside out and just kinda reinforce the inside seams with some
glue, and probably some tape, just so it doesn't fall apart on me.
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Okay, time to decorate this thing.
Before I draw all the webs on there, I am going to make the little spider emblem,
just so I can position where that's going to go, so
I will use some more craft foam for that.
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Okay, that's the body of the spider.
I'm going to draw the legs on with some sharpie while I do the rest of
the webbing, so this is gonna take a little while.
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Okay, that's a lot of lines, but I'm not done with lines, that was all the red.
(Laugh) Now I gotta move on to the blue.
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Okay, so those are the blue details,
now I think I'm gonna make the red spider on his back.
I'm just doing one side of this pattern, so when I trace it, I can flip it over and
make sure it's really symmetrical.
Cool, so I'm gonna trace this pattern onto some craft foam.
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So I'm gonna spray paint this red with some paint that I picked up for about $3.
I'm gonna start with a coat of gray primer.
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Okay, looking good.
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Bam.
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Okay, whew, all right, before I move on.
I decided I am going to go ahead and make these spider legs out of foam,
I'll just do that real quick.
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- Okay, so, he's got these little gadgets on the side here,
looks like maybe refill cartridges for his web shooters, that's my guess.
So I'm gonna make those out of some black craft foam, and attach them.
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Okay, so he's got these little cartridge tube things on there,
so I am going to just use some straws.
I already had some straws, but they are cheap.
So I'm gonna cut them down to size and
then leave the tips red, paint the inside silver, and then glue them on.
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Okay, so this is ready for paint, I'm gonna use some metallic spray paint,
which is around $5.
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Okay.
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All right, I'm gonna move on to the pants,
I found some blue pants at the thrift store for $6.
They're pretty much just the right shade of blue, that's one of the main things to
keep in mind when you're picking out your clothes from various stores,
is you want the colors to match.
So, first of all, there's a couple little shiny parts on these pants,
I'm gonna cover those up with some blue marker.
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Okay, that worked.
These are a little bit big, so I am going to cut a slit down the back and
tighten it up a bit, and glue it together.
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I am going to turn these inside out, so I can reinforce the inside with some more
glue and some tape, don't want 'Spiderman's' butt falling out.
I am going to cut these belt loops off.
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All right, so now I've gotta draw out the lines and the details on the pants.
And I'm just eyeballing all of this, just like the shirt,
looking at some reference pictures, and kind of making it up as I go along, too.
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Okay, moving on to the feet.
It basically looks like he's just wearing socks, so I picked up some socks for $3,
these are athletic socks, so I'm just going to be drawing the webs on them.
There's kind of a logo on here, so I'm gonna cover that up with red marker.
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All right, so for the top rim, there's like a black edge.
I'm gonna just spray paint the top of this, and then kind of fold it over, and
I think that's gonna make the shape we want.
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All right, so now I've just got to draw the rest of the webs on here.
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Okay, one final thing for this costume, and that is the web shooters,
which I'm going to attach to some gloves.
So I searched everywhere for some red gloves, but
it is the middle of summer right now, so I managed to find one at a thrift store.
They sold it to me for $0.49, but I need two.
Luckily, I had some older used ones that are a little bit funky, but
I'm gonna use these instead.
Same idea though, it's just drawing the pattern on with the black marker.
All right, for the web shooters themselves, we're gonna make those out of
craft foam, and then just attach it right to the gloves.
So I'll look at the picture and kinda estimate what the shape is.
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Okay, so what I think I'm going to do is just glue this right onto the glove,
but if it's too tight, I won't be able to get my hand in.
So, I found this old jar of pennies, cuz I'm an old man.
That's gonna stretch it out, glue it on, and
then I hope that that makes it stay in shape.
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I do need to glue this without killing myself.
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Okay, so I'm just gonna add a few more little details on here, and that's it.
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Okay, I think that is it, it is time to try the whole thing on.
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All right, hey, I feel very 'Spiderman'-like.
This is nice, this is actually pretty comfortable.
Not a whole lot of spray paint here, just some stretchy clothes, and
one of the bonuses here is that I've got pockets.
So that's always handy, when you're at the convention, or at the party.
I wasn't sure how well I'd be able to see out of the spray paint, but it's not bad,
I can kinda see what's happening, and let's see if I can get out of this thing.
Whew, all right, whew, and I like that it has a removable hood,
that's the other bonus about not using those full body suits.
So in the end, I only ended up spending $38, plus a little tiny bit of spray
paint, so let's just call that $40 for the whole thing, that's not bad.
Out of all the costumes I've made, this is probably the most flexible.
If you want some more hot, Spidey action, be sure and watch Ben's 'Homemade Movies'
episode of 'Spiderman Homecoming', that's really awesome, I play Tony Stark in it.
And that's it, let us know in the comments what other DIY costumes you wanna see us
try and make, and be sure to subscribe to CineFix.
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time, I'm out of here!
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