Goofy, Poofy Inflatable Costumes
RAS2025-10-31T16:30:00+00:00Want a costume that’s compact, lightweight, and covers you from head to toe? Inflatables might be what you need. You can fit your costume in a handbag like a normal person, only to later reveal the weirdest costume at the party. Giant floppy outfits are always fun. But if the one you want is unavailable, fear not! You can make your own. Here are a few builds worth investigating.
Fernside Dragons
First up, Maker Faire blue ribbon winners...October 31, 2025RASUncategorizedcostumes, Costumes, Cosplay, and Props, Craft & Design, inflatable0 Comments
Wicked Wings – 3 Ways to Spread Your Costume Wings
RAS2025-10-24T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 78. Subscribe today to get more great projects delivered to your mailbox. Featured image: Demon Hunter from World of Warcraft. Photographer: A.Z.Production Cosplay Photography. Cosplayer: Willow Creative Flight has caught our fancy since the dawn of time. Ancient Greek myths detailed Daedalus strapping wax-and-feather wings to his arms. Leonardo da Vinci diagrammed wearable winged mechanisms in the 15th century. Otto Lilienthal helped launch the sport of hang gliding at...
October 24, 2025RASUncategorizedcosplay, costume, Costumes, Cosplay, and Props, Craft & Design, make78, wings0 Comments
Little Props and Horrors! Haunted House Roundup
RAS2025-10-21T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 78. Subscribe today to get more great projects delivered to your mailbox. Halloween is our favorite time of year! It’s a perfect holiday for makers because we get to stretch our creative muscles and make some really fun props and decorations that we can share with our entire community throughout the season. It’s a time when anything goes and you can show off your skills. Whether your theme is scary, silly,...
October 21, 2025RASUncategorizedCostumes, Cosplay, and Props, Craft & Design, Halloween, halloween props, make78, props0 Comments
A Movie Model Masterpiece
RAS2025-09-01T16:00:00+00:00In March of 2018 I was asked a question: Do you know the blimp from Blade Runner? This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. My answer: Freaking of course I did! Not only am I an enormous fan of the movie, and an artist in awe of the models made for it, but it also happens that my college mentor was Lawrence Paull, the Oscar-nominated production designer of said masterpiece. Sitting in...
September 1, 2025RASUncategorizedCostumes, Cosplay, and Props, Craft & Design, Make94, model making, movie props, sci-fi0 Comments
Wonderful Wind Waker Watercraft Wows Wistful Watchers
RAS2025-08-20T17:00:00+00:00How many hours did I spend sailing in Zelda: The Wind Waker? If I spent those hours building instead, maybe I could’ve crafted something like this King of Red Lions boat from LittleJem, who fulfilled a childhood dream by making the vessel a reality. After all, if you’re going to build something from a 20-year-old game, you might as well go big with it. Jem claims not to know anything about boat building, but does a brilliant job faking...
August 20, 2025RASUncategorizedboat, cosplay, Costumes, Cosplay, and Props, Craft & Design, DIY Projects, video game, zelda0 Comments
The Softer Side of Metal — Blacksmithing Fashion
RAS2025-08-15T16:00:00+00:00This article is from Make Vol. 73! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. Delicate. Soulful. Evocative. These aren’t typically the terms you hear us throw around when we speak of a blacksmith’s work. However, this artist is anything but typical. Ellen Durkan, known as Iron Maiden Forge, has been creating elaborate and mesmerizing works of fashion that are born from hot steel on the anvil. At...
August 15, 2025RASUncategorizedart, blacksmithing, costume, Costumes, Cosplay, and Props, Craft & Design, fashion, Made On Earth, make73, Makers0 Comments
Galaxy of Droidsmiths — Star Wars Droid Builders
RAS2025-07-30T16:00:00+00:00Longtime Make: readers — and visitors to Maker Faires around the world — know how much we love R2-D2, that cheeky little astromech droid from Star Wars. We profiled the R2 Builders Group way back in our second issue, and showed how to build your own life-sized, remote controlled R2-D2 in 2016. Since then, the Star Wars universe has only grown, and the makers who create their own replicas and custom...
Pepper’s Ghost Hologram Flask
RAS2025-06-27T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 86. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! I learned about the classic stage illusion “Pepper’s Ghost” from an episode of Mr. Wizard’s World on Nickelodeon, sometime in the late 1980s. Many of his household science experiments were small and easy to replicate at home but occasionally Mr. Wizard would show off something really spectacular to his adolescent co-stars. In this particular segment, he produced an apparition of a skeleton...
June 27, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Costumes, Cosplay, and Props, Craft & Design, Halloween, illusions, make86, prop0 Comments
Candlelit Cathedral Dress
RAS2025-06-18T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 86. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! I love adding special effects to textiles, and programmable LED strips have changed the game — but sometimes a look calls for more of a candlelit cathedral than a rainbow rave! This project uses flickering LEDs to illuminate semi-sheer fabric panels in the style of stained glass. You can upcycle an existing skirt, or sew your own garment from scratch. Go for vibrant,...
