Making a Princess Peach/Furiosa costume

Cory Doctorow 11:07 am Sun Sep 27, 2015

Seelix set out to make an incredible costume that mashed up Imperator Furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road and Princess Peach from the Super Mario franchise — she succeeded.

She documented her process in a generous post that provides great insight into how you can take on a challenge like this yourself.

ghwas a little out of my depth. I’ve used Worbla in a few projects before, but nothing particularly ornate or complicated.

So, instead of carefully researching, doing small projects, testing out the material, I did what every good Mad Art Labber does: I jumped right into the deep end. And over two weekends, I went from concept to full-armor.

Making Imperator Peachiosa
[Seelix/Madartlab]

(via Skepchick)

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