Metalbeard Halloween Costume 2014

[Ragnar]

As avowning long-time steam-punk and one of the founders of the austrian steampunk-community I instantly fell in love with Metalbeard's robo-pirate design. I already made loads of costumes before but this was my first attempt on working with EVA-foam (Ethylene-vinyl acetate).

First of all I needed some patterns, so I made 3D-models using fotographs of the original LEGO-pieces as reference. After that I dissected the models into their single surfaces, unfolded them and arranged the on multiple pages for printing. Next I transferred the cut-out paper pattern onto the surface of my foam-sheets, sawed them out on an electric scroll saw and ground some of the 90 degrees edges to slopes with a disc grinder. Afterwards I thermo-formed some of the pieces with a heat gun and bent them into their final shape. After I had all the components I needed, I glued them together with a hot glue gun and finally painted the props with acrylic paint. To make the beard wearable I attached a leather-strap on its inside which would later be covered by the bicorne. Finally I made a matching eyepatch out of leather (also using some fotographs as reference).

The picture was taken at the LEGO-Store Donauzentrum (Vienna/Austria).

You can find more pictures of the single objects in my cosplay folder on my homepage.

[Blondie-Wan]

Fantastic!

[Nick Wolfe]

OMG that's amazing! I probably would have strapped a plushie shark to my arm too but you look fantastic!

[Ragnar]

Thanks!

Adding a plush-shark is a great idea!

...although it was supposed to be the "Minifig" version of metalbeard (as seen in his narration).

[Mencot]

Haha, very cool and awesome.

The design is, Lego spot on

[Zerobricks]

Thats awesome! Great work.

[dr_spock]

Excellent work. Even the employee name tag looks real.

[obsidianheart]

Cool! All that's missing is Speed Racer and The Flash!

[Ragnar]

Thanks to all for the compliments!

@dr_spock: The name tag IS real ;-)

[Pate-keetongu]

This is fantastic. The overall costume is great, but the big flame plume got to be my favourite part.

[Ragnar]

This is fantastic. The overall costume is great, but the big flame plume got to be my favourite part.

Thank you! It's a separate piece, so you can rotate it or take it off if you like...

Edited April 6, 2015 by Ragnar

[alohamitsu]

That is so cool and so creative! I love Halloween (my favorite holiday over Christmas actually!) and I really love to see people taking the time and effort to make their costume unique! :)

[Jordan76]

What a lovely post!! I am glad that you shared the photographs of this Halloween Costume. I will also be hosting a halloween party this year and looking forward to your post regarding party preparations. I want this party to be the best halloween party nyc!

[LegoPercyJ]

That is pretty interesting!

[kingmob75]

Wow, this is awesome! Well done, good sir.

[novareb]

Cool! The costume looks awesome, but I'm sad it's not robot metalbeard