Rich Whiffen: Julia's Star Wars X-Wing costume, Halloween 2015

Decided to write up this year's halloween costume builds. Before I do that, I want to post about some of the previous costume builds. I didn't document them as well as I hope to document this year's builds.

In 2015 the girls let me make them Star Wars themed costumes. This was Julia's x-wing costume, complete with an R2D2 droid in the back of the x-wing.

We basically ran out of time to add more details. I feel like I could have done a bit better but at night out trick or treating it looked pretty good. Lots of complements. I scratch built the ship, helmet and vest. R2D2 was a toy I have (he makes cool sounds and is voice activated).

The x-wing came along pretty good. I found some large moving boxes in our complexes recycling collection.

So I free-hand cut the pieces out and hot glued them together. Then I taped the seams with white duct tape. Next I put some wings on. I took some mailing tubes and cut them in half to be the engines and started painting the base white coat.

Oh yeah, forgot about the sticks for the guns on the end of the s-foils. After painting white I masked off and painted a red stripe. Lastly I put some straps on so she could wear it like suspenders and that was basically it.

Next up the helmet. I friend, Kevin, had an extra hockey helmet to donate to the cause. Painted it white and glued craft foam to the side to make it cover the ears. I also made the ridge down the middle to make it look more like the movie.

Then I took colored electrical tape and sharpie to detail it up, and printed some rebel logos on paper and glued them on. The visor is a cut up piece of plastic from a paint roller tray liner.

She's already wearing the orange t-shirt we borrowed for the flight suit. Next we took a white t-shirt and cut the sleeves and neck to look like a vest. Then we fabric-glued some craft foam to it and drew some flight-suit looking details on with sharpie.