For this Halloween of 2022 I dressed up as a spartan warrior. My plan for the costume was to focus on the helmet and shield and then go on to make leg and body armor. I had had no experience with making anything like this before, but I still had a general idea of how to go about making the shield, so the helmet was going to be the main challenge. After watching some videos, Mom and I got to work making a cardboard frame for the helmet, planning to paiper-mache over it, but the shield and leg armor would also need to be paiper-mached so we decided to do all the paiper-macheing at once. The shield was made out of cardboard with a paper plate in the middle to give it a curve, the leg armor was also made out of cardboard curved to fit my legs. Once everything that needed to be paiper-mached had been made Mom and I began paiper-macheing. After two coats of paiper-mache I them dry and then primed them, after letting this dry I painted them with bronze spray paint. We used red tul...
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