MITUNA CAPTOR HELMET TUTORIAL (with pictures)
*removed from under the cut so it can be read more easily*
Please read EVERYTHING before you buy materials!
Also the text in this post is being wonky..
but whatevs if you can read you'll be fine!
Right so heres the finished product ahead of time:
so I noticed there were absolutely no tutorials on this. I kinda winged mine, but it came out pretty legit so I figured hey why not make my own tutorial thingy as reference for anyone in my previous situation.
Also quite a few people have asked me already so yeah heres a post
list of stuff i used
- a helmet (ski helmets are best)
- transparent binder dividers in blue and red (or coloured plexiglass)
- a styrofoam ball (or other circular object)
- paper clay (or paper mache)
- captor horns
- velcro
- yellow spray paint (make sure it sticks to plastic)
Okay I want to separate this by construction of each section of the helmet.
Ill also talk about prices & such, overall you can spend minimal $$ if you buy wisely, which is what i did. I have added pictures at the end and throughout which i hope help?
HELMET
The most important part, obviously.
If you have a shitty helmet the whole thing looks bad, for example a standard
pointy bicycle helmet would look terrible.
You want your ears to be completely covered, so using a ski helmet or baseball helmet would be ideal.
Yes
*Looks best when your ears are covered
Might I also add that this would be the most expensive part of the cosplay, but cost can be very easily avoided if you have no hurry to make this thing. Local thrift stores like value village get in helmets sometimes, you just need to repetitively check. That is, if you want it cheap.
You can also check online of course, the ones in sport stores will probably be pricey. I personally had an old one in my garage that i was willing to paint yellow and stick horns onto. Here are some from ebay if youre having problems.
As you can see, mituna's helmet has a sort of stripe right down the middle.
You can make this out of anything- plastic, wood, cardboard, whatever.
I made it out of model magic because i had lots.
I cut it neatly and straightly with scissors.
I gave it a day to harden before I glued it.
VISOR
So people usually buy red and blue plexiglass from this website however I couldn't because they don't ship internationally (times like these i hate being canadian). If you have this problem, or you don't want to buy anything online, and spend less money. I have an alternative that works.
I went to the dollar store and bought transparent binder dividers. These:
Yes, they work wonderfully and they're super cheap.
I spent a grand total of 1 dollar.
However, I want to stress that you must test them out!
They must be TRANSPARENT not TRANSLUCENT or OPAQUE (if you want to see through them. If not you can do pretty much use anything).
If they dont have any of these bad boys at your local dollar store check Staples.
They'll have tonnes of dividers or even duo tangs you can use.
To actually create the diagonal visor shape, I made an example out of paper firstto test size and proportion to my helmet.
Then, since the plastic is transparent, I cut it out with the paper as reference
underneath. to make the blue and red pieces stick together you can use clear tape, or completely transparent plexiglass (also at dollar store).
I used clear tape down the stripe, which works well and doesnt look as bad as you might think.
To get it to stick in the helmet, you could literally do anything, tape, glue etc.
I used duct tape so I could take it off and put it back on if i wanted.
note: another alternative would be to get clear plastic plexiglas and use stained
glass varnish, or any other clear but tinted paint to make the blue and red part.
SIDE BULB THINGIES
there are honestly an endless amount of ways to make these.
My initial idea was to get a toy ball from the dollar store and cut in in half then
paint it but I ended up doing something different because I couldnt find an appropriately sized ball.
Instead I bought a styrofoam ball and covered it in clay.
It was a little big, so i made is slightly smaller with a saw. I moulded the clay around it and let it dry.
Then I made four flat rectangles, two per bulb, and stuck them on to create those random shapes. I let them dry then painted them separately.Then I glue gunned them on the sides of the helmet. It worked pretty well so I suggest it.
Also do not take out the styrofoam ball!
The bulbs may cave in if you leave them hollow on the inside.
Glue the bulbs on with the ball still inside for support.
HORNS
there are hundreds of tutorials on how to make troll horns online. I did mine with model magic and shitty dollar store paint.
What I did differently was that I added Velcro to the bottom of the horns.
I then put Velcro on a black headband and on the helmet.
This allowed me to remove the horns from the helmet and stick them on the headband and vice versa as I pleased. It saves me the trouble of making double the horns (which would be double of 4 like 8 too lazy no thanks)
FINISHING UP
so heres an easy step by step recap thingy:
- get a helmet that covers your ears
- make side bulbs
- make middle stripe
- glue them to the helmet
- spray paint it all yellow
- let it dry for a day
- cut out visor
- attach it to helmet
- add Velcro and horns
VOILA FINITO
Here are some pics i took in the progress. I didnt know i would be making this tutorial so i apologize that there are not more)
(visor was too big when i took this pic, i cut it afterwards)
There you go friends i hope i helped you somewhat!!
if you have any more questions dont hesitate to ask me :]
so sorry again about the font idk what went wrong there haha
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