#gabbro cosplay

[sheriff-shitstarter]

I was wondering, what did you use to make the helmet/visor for you Gabbro cosplay? It looks fantastic and I'm figuring out making one sometime next year. (Thanks in advance!)

Hey, thank you! So the materials that I used were:

- 10mm EVA foam for the helmet

-Helmet painted with FX flexible acrylic paint

- galvanized 14 gauge wire (from home Depot) for the antennae (and I 3d printed the antenna teaspoons from an online template). I made the antennae thicker and cartoonier by doubling them up and keeping them in place with a thinner silver crafting wire.

-to keep the antennae in place, I used mixture of hot glue and thermoplastic pellets stuffed into some thin PVC tubes I cut short and covered in thin EVA foam (for strength- those antennae can be heavy and I was afraid it would cut the EVA foam alone).

- A transparent protective document sleeve for the visor- you know those flexible but tough types you buy to protect art prints. I cut it with an x-acto until it matched the window shape in the helmet.

- For the reflective effect, I used one-way mirror window film, specifically this one, and squeegeed it onto the document sleeve. To get it glued into the helmet, I had to really carefully use a balance of hot glue to get it to stay and E6000 to get it to stay permanently. Be VERY careful about bubbles because this stuff loves to delaminate on curved surfaces.

To form the helmet shape, I basically made the shape I wanted using crumpled paper, cardboard, and tape, and then I made a template using cling wrap and duct tape on the model. There's quite a few tutorials for making EVA foam helmets online.

Let me know if you need any more details!

#gabbro cosplay #outer wilds #gabbro

[poisonhemloc]

purely out of my own curiosity

any of y'all planning cosplays or have a 'if I had the time/money/energy/skill set I would do this' cosplay that is currently not achievable?

(I'm (hopefully) making some progress on Gabbro from Outer Wilds cosplay this weekend but. If I could. 10 Vigilant Gaze from Kill 6 Billion Demons would be so cool)

#poisonhemloc's rambles #if this makes it into one of those tags sorry but i wanna see what people wanna do

[poisonhemloc]

im really hoping Youngest Sibling sees all the work we're gonna have to put into this cosplay and still wants to do it (I'm figuring out a Gabbro Outer Wilds Cosplay and they're thinking about Solanum/A Random Dead Nomai) not for this upcoming con cause its like two weeks away but maybe winter or the next summer

but like. most of this costume is sewing? and fancy embroidery and trim but its sewing

just. geeze their helmet is more complicated than mines gonna be

#poisonhemloc's rambles #mine is also sewing but ive got the notes down i just need to. transfer everything to the paper i took from Robez for a pattern #and get like eight yards of cheap fabric to test it. Gabbro's top is all quilted it looks like and. guess who knows how to do that! #i even have batting now. pants are a little more finicky but i got a plan #Nomai space suit is. Probably gonna have interfacing/wire maybe/something to keep the skirt bits out but its pretty straighforward looking? #but ugh that helmet where is the head? how does this stay lightweight enough to wear #where is the *nomais* neck in there it doesnt look like theres room