My wife wanted to "match" with me this year for Halloween, and to my surprise, she didnt mean a marine. She meant she wanted to be the Alien!!!
So being 4ft 10", 90 lbs... I can't say she was an Alien "Warrior". More like a "drone", but considering I slapped this together in 4 days for ~$40 we were all pretty happy!
Materials:
-One medium sized plastic bowl ($3 from dollar general)
-Cardboard (free)
-1 entire roll of black duct tape (and I mean every an ENTIRE roll) ($7)
-Black conduit tubing ($8)
-Black gutter tubing ($9)
-Swimming pool "Noodles" x3 ($3 ea)
-2 cans of cheap black spray paint ($3 ea)
-Paintball vest (which may be cheating, but I already had that, so it costs nothing).
First step was roughing out cardboard shapes and melting the bowl to make a "face"
Then I started cutting the tubing and covering things in black duct tape. If you see a shape that is not a bowl or tubing, then it is simply cardboard covered in duct tape.
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For the tail and ....tube thingies, i used pool noodles. It probably wasnt good for my lungs or the air around me, but I used a razor blade to cut the design I wanted, then took a heat gun to the tubes. The 'edges' of the cut 'noodles' shrunk first, leaving some great patterns I was very happy with.
(took a LOT of coats of black paint)
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I taped the "shoulder ribs" on. Used screws and washers to attach wooden dowels to the back of the paintball vest and the 'tube thingies' slid right over the dowels. I used a metal tube stuck through the tail and used nuts, bolts, and washers to attach the tail to the paintball vest. The vest is mostly a single unit.
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Wifey starting to get into spirit!
The head is 100% cardboard that I cut and taped except for the "face"-bowl (again, just melted with a heat gun)
Painted
Now we get a big gap with no picks. I didnt get any good picks of cutting the tubing. Mostly a lot of trial and error. I cut the gutter tubing and conduit to shape and just taped it on. I cut the jaw out and just taped it on. Then i cut small strips for the ribbing and just kept on layering. Layers of cardboard and tape left me with this.
The hands are the same deal! First a black sock over the hands with finger holes cut in, then lots of cardboard cut and shaped, covered in tape, and secured with more tape!
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Added some teeth (claws and teeth i used regular silver duct tape, which was good because I was out of black!)
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