Natalina

Yay thanks for sharing all this on the Instructable! It's great to see all of the fun places that the disco ball helmets you've made have shown up. Thanks for adding your tips here :)

Thanks for sharing this technique! Really beautiful pieces.

You're welcome! Green Glue is the brand name.

Nice! That's cool to use leather, it will be durable :) Thanks for sharing!

So glad you made it! Is the map a patch? I like your embellishments :)

This is brilliant!

Love this.

I got mine at TAP for this, but there are probably cheaper sources.

High power lasers can cut sheet metal, but I'm not sure about a 1/8" sheet.

This is beautiful!

Wow, this is an incredible thorough instructable. Amazing write up and sculpture!

That's awesome! I'm so glad you made it - thank you for sharing a photo! It is time consuming, but hope you are having a great time enjoying your coat now that it's done :)

Of course this can be a male costume! My understanding of the phoenix in chinese mythology is that it generally considered the female counterpart to the male dragon, while the western phoenix (what this is based on) is genderless. I'm no mythology expert so feel free to share more on that, I love that stuff.I can't wait to see it! Be sure to post a photo when you're done :)

Aww hi scoochmaroo! This is such a cute hat. Nice to see your face on the homepage :)

These turned out so well!

Thank you for creating this project! I also fell down this research path and was dumbfounded as to why battery operated fog machines are so extravagantly expensive. I had given up on the idea of integrating fog into a project I have in the queue, but this has given me new hope! Horray!

Thanks for your help making it happen :)

Thanks Paige!

Thanks, feels good to have both pieces finally published!

So far I've only worn it out to a light festival so while some people noticed it, I blended in with the setting. I'm excited to wear it for halloween :)

Thank you!

You are right, I thought they were plastic but the two kinds of boning pictured next to the spiral metal are polyester. As I mention in that step, I am not a fan of either of these types of commonly found craft store boning. Both buckle and warp, and don't work well for curved seams. It's worth the time to order boning online. Plastic has some advantages in that it's easy to cut to length, however a flat stay like this is much better. For curved seams, always use spiral steel bones.

I link to the fiber optics I used in steps 2 and 3.