![]() "Stress" crack details needed to be added next. Also, it's wise to wear protective gloves to prevent burning your own precious skin! This foam can be shaped over again if the first result isn't what you were going for. When it cools, it stays the shape given to it. The hotter the foam gets, the more pliable it becomes. Secondly, to shape the piece of foam to a shell/bowl. Next, I used my heat gun to heat up the entire shell piece, for two reasons: First, it caused the detail cuts to open and separate, and made them stand out. It can be more or less, depending on how you want the end result to look. Not all the way through the foam, just 1/16" to 1/8" deep. All of the details I drew in with the sharpie got cut with my box cutter. The next steps involved are what makes using EVA foam fun for me. I don't have quick access to a band saw, so most of the time, which was the case with all of the cuts made in this project, I used a box cutter. ![]() Side note: A band saw will cut EVA foam quicker and cleaner than a box cutter. This piece was cut out with a box cutter. A grid was made, then I marked the pectoral and abdominal lines where I thought they should be. ![]() I put what would become the chest piece of foam up to my son, and marked how long and wide to make it. The chest piece was done similarly to the shell. After the shell piece was all cut out, I used reference images, and marked the shells detail lines with a sharpie. Using a box cutter, I cut off this corner and used it as a template to mark the rest of the corners to give the shell piece symmetry. I then marked off a square grid within these measurements, and rounded out one of the corners. To start this costume, I had my son lay down on one of the EVA mats, and used a sharpie to mark how tall, and wide the shell would need to be to fit his body. For those who do not know, it is the same foam used to make floor mats, the thin sheets of craft foam you can buy from craft stores, and is available in many different thicknesses, and colors. You probably already know what this is, because it's the go to material right now for DIY costuming. The material used throughout this costume build, is EVA foam. This gave me the ability to choose from many different looks and use what I liked. Throughout this time, they have had slight, to major appearance changes. PT, in case you're interested.From my youth to the present, the Ninja Turtles have had several come backs. Realistically, you could buy this and use it as a costume. The Leonardo costume stands over 6 feet tall, and was built to house an actual human being. Prop Store did not immediately respond to a request for comment. That being said, just one single Donatello mask (from the same movie) went for $1,700 in 2018, so what do I know? I don't know much about prop auctions but that seems. Starting bids are $5,000, but Prop Store expects the item to sell for somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000. "The body is currently filled with some stuffing and rests on an oversize clothing hangar - additional work is needed to make the piece stand." "Both the body and head of the costume show substantial breakdown to the foam latex elements and require restoration," reads the item description. The auction was unearthed by Twitter user Jayme K, but you can go check out the actual listing. You can buy this rotting, screen-used TMNT III Leonardo suit if you want.
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