- Hello everyone
and welcome back to Colleen Cosplay.
Today we are going to
making a crown... tiara... thing
for Lucina from Fire Emblem.
So what I'm going to start
out with is a headband.
This is just one that I
picked up from Jo-Ann's
and everything else is going to be made
entirely out of EVA foam.
I am using five millimeter
EVA foam for this,
I got this off of Amazon,
it's very soft, very easy to work with
so I am just going to kinda sketch out
the shape of this headband.
Now there is something I'm doing here
that is a little bit
different from our headband.
I'm going to have the crown
flare just a little bit out on the edges.
Now I'm going to use a knife
and cut out our tiara shape.
Don't worry about rough edges for now,
we are going to go back
and Dremel everything down.
So here we are.
When I fold in the edges
the tiara does have that
nice arched angled shape
that it does for canon for hers.
And now it is time to start Dremeling.
So I'm taking out my Dremel tool
and I'm going to be using
the sanding bit on it
and I'm just going to go around
all the edges of the tiara.
You'll notice that I'm
Dremelling both sides of tiara
with the sanding bit at this angle
so the edge of the tiara
comes to a nice fine point.
And feel free to make
adjustments as you go along.
I ended up making the tiara a lot thinner
than I had originally patterned,
but definitely keep
checking it with headbands
that it shows up exactly
how you want it to
and give it a few tries,
try on your tiara draft.
Try it on.
Now for the tiara details.
So I am going to sketch out
the outer shape of the tiara
and I'm gonna use that
as kind of a reference
for how big my tiara is
and how much space I
have for these details.
And then I'm going to just freehand
draw the details as best as I can
and then I'm using this
one millimeter thick craft
foam, this is from Jo-Ann's,
it's very thin and is
perfect for detail work.
So we are going to cut
out those little shapes,
completely identical on
both sides of the tiara.
Next we're gonna glue the
details onto our tiara.
And I'm going to do this
with Contact Cement.
Contact Cement makes
some rather awful fumes
which are not very good for you to inhale,
so here I am out in the freezing weather
making a cosplay tiara
so I am going to use Contact Cement
and I'm just gonna go along
the entire detail with the applicator
that came with the Contact Cement
and then I'm going to
press that into the tiara.
And that also needs to
dry somewhere ventilated
so I left it either outside
or you can leave it in a
garage until it is fully dried,
I usually let it sit overnight.
Now more Dremeling!
So the sanding bit is a
little big for these details
so I'm going to change to a drill bit
and I'm going to use the drill
to Dremel down the edges of this design.
This makes me edges nice and smooth
and everything is ready
to paint and prime!
So now for priming I'm
going to be using Mod Podge
and I'm just going to with a paintbrush
just apply that all over the tiara,
you can only do one side at a time
which is really unfortunate
so it takes a lot of time
but it's gonna look great at the end.
I did two layers of Mod Podge
on both sides of the tiara.
Now moving onto paint,
so I have two of these acrylic paints
and I actually mixed these two together
because it wasn't quite the
gold color I was looking for,
one was too yellow and one was too dull
so I'm gonna mix these together
and that's gonna be
the color for my tiara.
So to finish off I'm just gonna
cover the paint coat with
another layer of Mod Podge on both sides,
the Mod Podge dries clear
and it really just kinda seals everything
and makes it look really nice at the end
so that will be our final coat.
Now we are going to attach
the tiara to our headband.
I'm using this industrial
strength glue, the E600
and this also has not very good fumes,
I always let it dry in the
garage or let it dry outside.
I'm going to apply that to
the very edge of the tiara
and then I'm going to
very carefully attach it
to this headband,
and it was really hard to get it to
arc to the shape I wanted
with just the strength of the glue,
it takes multiple hours
for this glue to dry
so I used tape and I just taped it
to the shape of the headband,
that worked really, really well,
it did not leave any marks afterwards,
I'm just using scotch tape
and then finally I'm going to take
this little piece of cardboard
or you can use a piece of foam
and I'm going to use the glue
and just kind of seal between
the tiara and the headband,
just add another layer there.
So that's how I made the tiara for Lucina.
If you have any questions,
please leave them in the
comment section down below
and I will get back to
you as soon as possible.
Thank you guys so much for watching
and I'll see you all in the next video!
