Hihi can you please tell me how to make the donnie shell? Im also planning in being him for Halloween and I lowkey have no idea where to start
(In reference to this post)
Idk how much of a tutorial u need, so I’m just gonna basically give everything I’ve done with it so far and u can use what u need lol
Quick forewarning- a lot of this was made going off of vibes, so I hope none of it’s too hard to follow cuz I might not be the best at describing it ‘-w-
The first thing I did was actually make templates for the sides [using taped together old papers from school-]
I think I threw the templates away, but to make them I laid on my side on the floor and traced the curve of my back, going around my shoulder aswell, then off of vibes just put about where I thought the top should be [which ended up being ~3.25in/8cm above my shoulder]
Then put a straight line from where I thought that top should be, and added the edge length, tapering a little towards the bottom, basically just following my reference of Donnie’s shell
[Idk if I did a good job explaining so here’s this lil step by step too, with the curve following your back ofc]
Then I traced the template on two pieces of cardboard and cut them out
To make a template for the back of the shell I used the height of the sides to determine the height of the shell, then based the width on my back, kinda just going off of vibes and making it look like Donnie’s shell, then folded it in half and cut it out while following the lines so it was even
I don’t have a pic of the template for the shell since I cut it up, but it was basically below right pic with the size below left pic [template I used for plastron], and cut out ofc-
Then I drew in the details for the shell till it look roughly like this [+roughly the measurements I used]
To get the different inner segments I sketched where I thought the main sections should be (about thirds of the inner area), then divided the tops and bottoms of each into thirds before connecting them
Then I made the main piece by just tracing the whole paper over some cardboard and cutting it out
To make the top and bottom of the shell I measured the length of the shell and sides at their tops and bottoms and made those panels
To attach the sides to the main piece I drew a line roughly through the middle of each side piece, then hot glued the main panel along those lines, also attaching the top and bottom, getting roughly this shape minus the front edge
To get the edge I cut it out from the template then taped it to a couple pieces of cardboard to cut out and tape together to get the edge in one piece
I then hot glued the edge on the top of the side pieces, and my method for getting the inner sides of the edge was really shabby and I’m sure there are more precise ways to do it, but I just put pieces of cardboard against the inner edge then cut them roughy to size and glued them in, but it did work ig lol
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