My friend Steven asked me to make a Marowak costume for him. I’ve been slowly trying to work on it all semester, but with my crazy school schedule I was only really able to plan it out and start the base structure of his head piece. In the week I’ve been home, I completed the jumpsuit and the cardboard structure of his head piece and the paper mache layer. I also made some jewelry, but I’ll save those for another post. Anyway, the jumpsuit is made from the same pattern (and left over bias tape because I hardly ever use that stuff) as my Slowpoke costume with modifications. First, I had to draft a new belly piece and quilt it to create an “ab-like” appearance that Marowak has. I also had to create a custom tail. It’s larger than the one I created for the Slowpoke and densely packed with stuffing. It pulls badly in the back, but the once someone is wearing the jumpsuit, the tail holds up well without support. Seeing as this costume is made for someone who is taller and all around bigger than me (not everyone is 5’2” and 120lbs apparently), I had great trouble being pleased with my work and worried it didn’t fit. I visited Steven this past weekend and it fit him perfectly. Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos of him in it, so here is what I do have  (which doesn’t look very impressive).

Now for the head, I’m trying something new that I’ve been wanting to try. If it’s successful, I’m going to start my most epic costume ever after this one. Anyway, I’m making the head out of Bondo. Bondo is an automotive liquid fiberglass that you can buy at Wal-Mart fairly cheap. So, I saved up a bunch of light cardboard from things like cereal boxes and formed a head structure like this that was finished on Sunday.

It’s not perfect, but I’m very impressed with the results. On Monday, I did the next stage of the head; papermache. This smooths out the cardboard before the application of the Bondo.

The update on this costume I should hopefully have covered the head in Bondo.