Robocop Costume Tutorial

[Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] challenge accepted so here we go with a Robocop build this starts off as a pepicure file these files are from bro Navarro they are by far the most accurate 1987 RoboCop peppercure files I can find so actually go check him out these are printed out onto paper cut out and then those parts were traced around onto 10 mil thick EVA foam this video will show you how to use these peppercure files to make the RoboCop helmet you can use these same skills to do the rest of the suit as you will see at the end of the video so when cutting out these parts it's important to use a really sharp knife as the knee to your cuts are that you're more tidy your seams are going to be you can glue these bits of EVA foam together using anything you like from contact adhesive super glue or my favorite hot glue [Music] a lot of this build calls for the foam to be curved before it's glued together and to get it to curve use a heat gun and heat it from the back that way you don't risk burning the surface you're going to later paint you can't use a hair dryer for this because they just don't get up the temperature so a heat gun is essential for any foam work that requires the foam to be cut now what I'm doing with these two pieces here after heat forming them this is the Dome of the helmet is I'm taping up the entire seam from the outside making sure it's perfectly lined up before going at it on the inside of my glue gun to glue the two pieces together now as you can see this top part doesn't line up perfectly with a bit it's going to attach to so heat form the bottom edge of this and then hold it firmly onto something flat I use this piece of wood but you could also use your table just not your cutting mat because the heat will warp it just hold it till it's cooled down and that should line up a lot better [Music] when gluing on big pieces like this is difficult to get it lined up perfectly so I always do a little bit at the front and then get it lined up and do a little bit at the back and then fill in the rest it is quite tricky but with this glue going it's got quite a thin nozzle on it so I can get that right in the Gap and make sure I get it even on both sides otherwise it'll be crooked if you don't want to keep wasting money on replacement blades then make sure you buy yourself a knife sharpener that'll keep your knife nice and sharp and we'll prolong the life of the blades this part was cut slightly oversized that's so I could cut out a recessed bit around the edge so that this part can slot underneath the back of the helmet foreign thing with the chin guard this was made slightly taller than the papakura file that's so I can cut this down to half its thickness so it can slot in to the side of the helmet cutting out the eye hole was quite tricky but not as difficult as thinning down the foam so that way the visor doesn't sit so far back I should have done this before I assembled it these ear pieces were cut out from the side of the helmet and then cut down to half their thickness before being glued back in that's just so they are set back from the rest of the helmet the chin guard was then permanently glued in place it hasn't got a removable chin guard like in the movies as this is made of flexible foam I can get the helmet on and off with the chin guard still attached blowing on some more detail pieces to the ears [Music] for the detail pieces that go on the lower part of the back of the head I pinned them all into position first that way I can move them about if I'm not happy with where they are before I permanently glue them [Music] the detail lines on the side of the helmet are first score in with the back of a knife and then I make slightly wider with a very sharp pencil I then do the same thing for the back of the helmet [Music] foreign and then the same again for the writing on the side of the helmet the piece of paper you see there has the text ocp police zero zero one and this just so I can use that as a guide for spacing and sizing of the letters I'm going to draw on foreign [Music] so these detail lines that I have scored in with a knife and they're made wider with a pencil are to give my wood burner a channel to follow because trying to do straight lines with something as big and bulky as a wood burner it's quite difficult but if you've already etched in a channel for the nib of this to follow it becomes a lot easier the only bits I didn't do with the wood burner is the writing because I think it looks good enough as is so that is the helmet fully assembled this back piece needs to be removable to fit your head in this will be attached later on after it's all painted up now I made two of these helmets and that's because I wanted one clean and one battle damaged now if you don't want to battle damage yours and you can skip ahead a bit but if you do then get your wood burner out so I marked off where I wanted the battle damage to be again with a pencil and then I used a wood burner to burn in some bullet holes [Music] foreign this is almost ready to paint but before we do that we need to seal the whole thing and to do that I just use a heat gun when heat gunning you want to be careful not to burn the foam you can tell when you've done enough because the foam slightly changes color as the pores and the foam close up and it will also get slightly more shiny onto painting I'm using a scowl here to make sure I get the ratios of my paint the same in case I run out I mix in black and silver here to get a slightly darker shade of silver and I'm just going to apply this with a brush this would have been way quicker to spray paint this but painting this with a brush means I could do it in my living room so this is after one coat of that silver paint now it's time to use some of this decorators Cork and I use this just to fill in the seams mainly around the Dome of the helmet just apply this with your finger and then use some water to smooth it out [Music] [Music] so that's the seams all filled we can now go over the whole thing with a second coat of paint so when the silver is fully dry I watered down some blue acrylic paint and put it through my airbrush to add some blue highlights I used various reference pictures and my 18 inch Necker RoboCop figure as a point of reference [Music] I then did the same thing with some purple foreign [Music] paint to paint the chin guard [Music] and then using very little black paint on a smaller brush I just dry brushed outwards from the bullet holes [Music] [Music] now that it's all painted the only thing left to do is to cover the whole thing with clear lacquer for the actual visor of the helmet I use these welding visors these the exact same ones I use for my Mandalorian helmet they look black but they're actually in fact very very dark green but you can't tell so they are perfect I cut a strip of this using some snips and then trimmed it to the correct length this is oversized compared to the eye hole in the helmet that's because it's going to fit into that channel we cut away earlier [Music] as I'm battle damaging mine I need to cut a hole in the visor where a bullet from Edge to a nine is struck it which will reveal the wearer's eye underneath I drilled a load of little holes with my drill and then used a file to try and smooth that out [Music] the visor was then glued in place with hot glue from the inside and as it's oversized means that the glue won't run down past the bit that you're going to look through I'm using a rasp file here to rough up the textured side on the inside of the helmet that is to make the hot glue stick better when adding this Velcro this is two inch elastic and this is glued to the inside of the Flappy bit on the back of the helmet and the actual helmet itself and that's to make sure that this part on the back is always lined up correctly [Music] this velcro is glued to the bottom edge of that Flappy back bit and to the inside of the helmet too and that's just to keep it closed and that is the helmet complete [Music] I then use those exact same skills to do the rest of the suit thank you this is me test fitting some of the parts making sure they all line up correctly and seeing what my range of motion is like for the gloves I sectioned off the pieces and attached them to a glove that way I get more movement in my hand which is crucial as I need to be able to grip RoboCop's gun speaking of the gun I did have a 3D printed one but I was scared that if I dropped it it would break so I opted to make one out of foam instead [Music] all the parts were then painted in the same way as the helmet time to suit up first bit that goes on is the Cod piece and this has got some straps that go over your shoulders to hold this up the ab section of this is attached fire elastic straps as well to give me some flexibility where you saw me clip on there was a suspender belt type Arrangement and that's to hold up the thighs the thighs themselves are attached to the calves with some strips of Velcro and as you can see I've added the Achilles tendon type thing to the back of the calf and not attached to the foot that's just to make getting the costume on and off a lot easier inside the top of the thighs are buckles that attach that suspender belt thing and then their feet just slide on like slippers [Music] the neck is the next piece to go on that just attaches to some Velcro [Music] and then the Torso undoes on the sides and that just slides on over and the neck just pops in the top after the body and the head is on it gets a bit tricky because my range of motion is now a bit limited I can barely get my arms across my chest [Music] getting the arms on is a bit of a pain you have to kind of Wiggle yourself into them the only bit I had helped with getting dressed was to put the gloves on and that's only because I wanted them tucked into the forearms so my son helped me do this but if I just glued the gloves into the forearms then I'll be able to get those on on my own so here I am all suited up part man part foam all awesome so as I said at the start of the video I had to scale up some parts I was worried at first that you'd look like he'd eaten too many donuts but as it turns out he's still got a big chest and a small waist so it looks big and powerful which is fine with me [Music] Shameless plug here that is my Ed 209 make sure you go check out the other videos I've got on my channel on how I made him as well as a battle damage helmet I also made a battle damage chest this is interchangeable with the clean one with some velcro up at the shoulders and under the arms [Music] so there you go challenge complete RoboCop done and this has been a very long time in the making I've wanted to be RoboCop since I was about five years old since seeing that film for the first time when I was a little kid I've always wanted my own RoboCop suit I've stopped and started this project many times and now I've finally finished it well then I say finished it there's a couple of things I want to add I want to add the iconic footstep sounds to the costume so every time I take a step it'll make their thumping noise as a as Roman cops walking along and also whatever cup question wouldn't be complete without a working thigh holster now I've made my suit slightly oversized for two reason one or a bit bigger than Peter Weller was in the original films I had to bump it up substantially so it's more like swallow cop than robocopal still looks pretty cool and two I've added a little bit extra width to the thighs to make the gun fit in there the gun does fit in the thigh but I'm yet to add the mechanism to make it open and close and that's going to be something I'm going to undertake in the next couple of months so make sure you subscribe follow like all that stuff to keep an eye off I want to do that so yeah that's it and remember you don't have to be great at making to make something great goodbye [Music] thank you

Channel: Gavin Finn

Views: 24,259

Keywords: cosplay, robocop, robocop cosplay, robocop costume, eva foam, foamsmith, foamsmithing, eva foam cosplay, cosplay tutorial, how to, eva foam tutorial, eva foam robocop

Id: xFo0TVqkz24

Length: 19min 36sec (1176 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 12 2023