The strips were "tack welded" to the foam with hot glue, by laying the helmet down and doing a few "tack welds" at a time. This cardboard was cut into two continuous strips, approximately 2.5-3" wide. The box was disassembled by taking apart its seams and this left a good sized sheet of cardboard. What was I to do? Recycling bin to the rescue! I went to check out what I could find to reuse in my recycling bin and found the perfect thing. I had already cut out a top piece, which was a poor fit, and this left me with not enough material for the top strip of the helmet.
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The top was not big enough, but this was ok, because the helmet did not yet look like the style of the one from the movie yet.Īt this point, I realized that I was running out of fun foam. I then went to check out the test fit in the mirror, using my phone to see how it looked as I had yet to cut the eye slot.(See pic). This was done on both the left and right sides, and was out out. Next I cut the point for the front of the helmet by finding the center of the bottom edge of the sheet, and marking out a line from there to where this sheet joined the back sheet. I, then, hot glued the seams, and trimmed the excess. This, I determined, was at a point just a little bigger than my head. I ended up overlapping one of the sides a bit more than the other to get the right fit. The front sheet was overlapped over the back sheet. I repeated this on the other side and then did a test fit. I started by taping the long side of one sheet to the short side of another, lining up the edges. The result was pretty good, as you can see. This turned out to not be enough, so it was augmented with a club soda box. To start this off, I bought 3 sheets of Creatology Fun Foam 12" x 16" (see pic) at Michael's. This was arguably the most difficult part of the costume, as getting it right was key to the look of the costume. I must have gotten mixed up as I was working on this one and the King Arthur costume at the same time. I thought I had more, but when I went to write this up, it looks like some were missing. Once all of the above is finished, you are finished the tunic. Any mistakes you make along the way can be touched up with the black paint. It turned out to be a lot easier than expected. After the outline was filled with red, I used the different ridges and valleys as landmarks to draw in the rest of the lines in black. I needed to use multiple layers of paint, drying in between, as my material was quite porous (think table cloth). At this point, you should put newspaper inside the tunic to prevent bleed through. Once I had the outline, I filled it all in with red paint. This was done with a small art-style paint brush. I determined where the logo should be on the chest of the tunic, and sketched the outline first. I tried to print it over two pages to make it large enough, but the printer would not cooperate, so I ended up sketching the image by hand from the attached picture. I modified the logo in GIMP to be white on black, and enlarged it and printed it. The image for the center was taken from a t-shirt depicting the original logo.
This worked the first time, but was tight, so I refolded the fabric and made the half circle larger, until it was comfortable, and sat evenly. From here, I measured to find the center of the crease and then cut out a half circle about the size of my head. To accomplish this even-ness, I first, folded the fabric length-wise and used the hot glue gun to seal the seam (this increased opaqueness), and then folded the fabric in half across where my shoulders would be. Your fabric for this should be as opaque as possible and should be even on your front and back, sitting just above the knee. The amount you need depends on opaqueness and how tall you are. and was held on by a belt around the waist. I pictured the Knight's tunic as basically a modified poncho that hung to just above the knees. ***Also very helpful were production stills from the film found all over the net. ***The following article from the Etsy New York Street Team blog was a huge help. Red Acrylic Paint (this can be found cheap at many dollar stores)īlack Nylon? fabric (This was taken from a halloween cape, bought at a thrift store)Ī modified copy of the Black Knight's logo (originally for a stencil, but later used to sketch from by hand instead) Other things needed to finish the entire ensemble:īlack socks / Black boots (depending on indoor or outdoor)Ī large sword (preferably up to your chin, mine came up to my chest) (See Cheap and Easy Wooden Knight's Longsword) Materials:īlack Fabric (Should be about as wide as your shoulders)(Should be opaque as possible. As usual I wanted something relatively cheap and easy to pull off. This year I decided I was going to go to our annual Halloween party as the black knight from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
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