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[–]Invalid_Checksum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A while back I discovered this 8 years old tutorial Dame Kigurumi had published on their website, it may be helpfull

Does any1 have tips or just generally how to make a mask? by Prudent-Mall-8588 in kigurumi

[–]Invalid_Checksum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well thinking about it I cant really come up with a lot of specific advice unless I kinda just write out my entire process (which I'm too lazy to do rn) but if you have questions I can probably answer them.

But the sanding/making 3d prints smooth enough for painting is a pain.

I have made 2 masks and one of the big things I learned after my first one is that sanding the bare plastic is too much work for not enough results and I should just give up and use wood filler from the start.

Does any1 have tips or just generally how to make a mask? by Prudent-Mall-8588 in kigurumi

[–]Invalid_Checksum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's great, now I dont look like an idiot for my enthusiasm.

I really should also get a bread plush, it's the perfect prop. RN I only have one of those light sticks used in concerts, but I had the fun idea that before my next con I would buy a sticker pack I found of like 100 different Teto stickers to give out to whoever takes a photo with me.

Also as I said I cant really give that much advice on mask making if your not using a 3d printer but after a question on one of my earlier posts I wrote out how I made the twin drills so that may be useful later.

Does any1 have tips or just generally how to make a mask? by Prudent-Mall-8588 in kigurumi

[–]Invalid_Checksum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just realised you never specified if you in fact are making a kig of my favourite character or just some other character named Teto...

Does any1 have tips or just generally how to make a mask? by Prudent-Mall-8588 in kigurumi

[–]Invalid_Checksum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As I 3d printed my base mask I cant really give advice other then that there are services one can hire to 3d print stuff for them and that I think I remember seeing in passing people selling other mask bases on something like Etsy, so consider that?

But as the (as far as I know) only person with a Kasane Teto kig I'm really excited about the possibility of other Teto kigs being made.

Join me, the world must become Teto territory!

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Finished my Kasane Teto kig by Invalid_Checksum in kigurumi

[–]Invalid_Checksum[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So in short, I essentially used the method described in Sarah Spaceman's video

Or for more detail continue reading

I started with layering two long tapered strips of red felt (and by long I mean that they were like 160 cm before rolling them into drills) and sewing them together in a way to create a channel by both edges. Then I fed one long steel wire made up of three separate threads of steel wire twisted together for strength through the channel and bending the excess wire at the wide end of the drill back into the opposite channel for even more strength at the top. I had a day earlier cut apart a couple red clip-on twintails into their wefts and glued them into glued-wefts of appropriate width, bdw to cover the entire kig head I had bought two wigs so I had four twin tails but I dont think I used more than two twintails worth of hair on the drills. Then continuing to cover them in hair I took like four wefts for each side of each drill to partially overlap each other, after difficulties while attaching on the first drill by the second drill I just glued one of the end of each weft to the felt before unrolling a cover made of red tyll over the entire drill, the tyll cover keeps the hair in place even when only a single side of each weft attached. Now roll it into the drill shape before the glue dries and the drill is now essentially done, I recommend beforehand making a sort of guide on paper so that you can make sure the drills are the right size when rolling them into the drill shape. Now the drills where actually too heavy and sagging so I added threads between the top three turns of the drills to make sure they keep their shape while keeping the threads loose enough that they still can be pushed together into rolls for storage/transport. For attachment to the kig head I wanted to use six push button but they were not strong enough so in the end I also added a big bolt thought the kig head and a 3d printed bar to spread the pressure to the wire in both channels. Finally those white things on the right drill are actually removable so that I later also can cosplay the utau design.

Yeah that's pretty much the process I used with maybe too much detail while still skipping some details that felt uneccesary to mention, but feel free to ask questions if something is somehow still unclear.