Optimus Prime Costume

Step 4 Adding comfort and detail to chest

The opening on the back has an additional interior overlaping flap that I used to affix velcro straps to. Kinda like putting 1 hand over the other.

I put 2 strips and tried sewing them in for reinforcement but found the needles couldn't hold up so I hot glued them. If you can get any sewing in I recommend it highly as sometimes the glue tends to rip off the first layer of cardboard.

Here I've added an awning flap where I plan on putting the small flashlights I bought at the 99 cents store.

Comments

[bwm3093]

Hey, building my optimus and another question came to mind how did youacheieve the bend in the center of the chest peice and im also not clearon how you made the bottom where it connects to the torso peice.

[cochez]

Its not a bend, from what I can tell that is the cut he mentioned, velcroed to achieve the angle

[whitelion331]

hey just soya no the second pic is extremely helpful thanx

[SN4KECH4RMER]

Great costume. I'm making mine for Halloween this year. One thing I'm hung up on is the cardboard around the windows. Is it all one piece that you added on? If you could explain how you did it, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

[dannyeurena]

Thanks for the question. If the instruction isn't clear enough, please accept my apoligies. The chest piece is in fact pretty intricate. The square holes were cut into a thin triangle piece that fit over the square chest piece. They were framed with foamboard slats (like chopsticks) that sat on top of a.) A blue painting of lightning bolts, b.) a Thin sheet of transparent plastic. Please let me know if this makes sense. (Sorrry for not replying sooner. I didn't have access to the net for about a month. Hopefully I can help going forward.)

[SN4KECH4RMER]

Thanks, that really helped me. I figured that was how you did it but I wanted to make sure before I screwed up and had to make a whole new upper torso. I'll be sure to post pictures when I caPr