Foam Halo costumes.

Familyman · Jan 28, 2013

I threw this together last halloween for my son, he really loves it and still wears it. I am now building myself a master Chief costume, being a stay at home father money is always tight, so I will be building out of foam, but I am no stranger to foam builds so I have high hopes.

Here is my helmet so far.
I am using my sons halo figures and a lot of pictures for reference, I also using a pep file for some parts. I started taking pics but then unfortunately I kinda got into the build and forgot to take pics.
Here is the back part.

Here is the next time I took a pic, quite a bit done already, this took about 3 hours.

Here is the visor just taped in to see what it would look like.

And here is some of my other foam builds.
I built this for son, it fits 2 mega bloks halo figures in the cockpit and I glued a piece of megabloks at the back so he can stand some figures inside, it also has a hook on the back and can carry a megabloks warthog. And if that isn't enough I also installed a mini sound player that has 5 built in sounds of the pilot in Halo CE.

Flux Capacitor out of foam.

Ironman out of foam

And yes even wall-e and R2 are foam.

Familyman · Jan 28, 2013

Here is the next stage of my helmet.
For the light holes on the side of the helmet I used an old cigar holder. ( A friend gave them to me because I always like to keep strange and cool things for future builds).
I find using something circular like this is great for cutting perfect holes in foam. I put the foam circles back in the holes for now just to help it keep its shape.
Here are some pictures to show you what I mean.

My website. http://costumesarecool.weebly.com/

Rex 084 · Jan 28, 2013

That has to be some of the best foam work I have ever seen. Keep up the awesome work! Can't wait to see more!

Rex out.

MacTrigger · Jan 28, 2013

R2D2 and Wall-E, your kids gotta love you.
Astonishing work just wow O_O

Familyman · Jan 28, 2013

Thank you both so much. Yeah my kids are the envy of the town lol. R2 went to the local school last year and visited 3 of my kids classrooms everyone had a blast, they all got to try on Ironman, clone trooper and batman helmets/cowls and touch R2. Wall-e is supose to go for a visit soon but in 2 weeks all my stuff is going to be at the local art gallery for 3 weeks. There will be more of my foam props including Proton pack and ghost trap as well. Would love you guys to visit my site, I have build pages and tutorials of all my builds.
http://costumesarecool.weebly.com/ you can even see some pics of R2 at the school.
I was able to spray paint my helmet today I will post some pics later.

Matty Magz · Jan 28, 2013

I am now building myself a master Chief costume, being a stay at home father money is always tight, so I will be building out of foam, but I am no stranger to foam builds so I have high hopes.

Great work. It's cool to see a quality Helmet being built out of foam. I'm working on foam reach build right now, and putting off the helmet till last. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to make a good looking helmet out of foam, but it looks like it's more then possible with some careful effort.

Ram620 · Jan 28, 2013

Wow! Your builds are awesome, this is also going to be good

Great job man!

evilducky 00 · Jan 28, 2013

Great work love Wall-e. Your helmet is very detailed. Looking forward to the rest of the suit.

Familyman · Jan 28, 2013

Thank you all for the kind words. Here is a small picture update, I was able to get some spray painting donw today. The vents are not glued in yet, they are just placed in for the picture.

theBR1T1SHkid · Jan 29, 2013

Your foam work is amazing!!! The helmet looks perfect, can't wait to see more of your work

Pyronari · Jan 29, 2013

you can do some great stuff with foam. I want the r2d2 that thing is awsome.

BeanwaterFox · Jan 29, 2013

I'm really excited to see more!

DBmike · Jan 29, 2013

Nice work there buddy. Love the R2 and wall-e

RTWHOCKEY · Jan 29, 2013

You, sir, have the luckyest kid in the world! And you've got some serious balls to make a helmet out of foam. Keep it up!

Familyman · Jan 29, 2013

Thank you all so much, I will be working on the chest armor tomorrow, I will be taking a lot more pics this time. I have been looking a lot at the helmet I built and I can see where and how I could cut down the amount of glue lines. So in the near future I will be redoing my helmet. But for now I will live with the one I have. Can not wait to get started on the chest tomorrow. Wish me luck!.

Sara · Jan 29, 2013

Your foam work is really great, not very many foam helmets turn out as nicely as yours. I had a look at your site, you're making a cyberman! that's awesome

if I ever tackle a full foam suit it's going to be a cyberman. Your wall-e and r2 are beautiful also, keep it up the great work

Familyman · Jan 30, 2013

Thank you, The cyberman is on hold for now, I am kinda interested in the even newere cyberman design coming in the second half of the new Doctor Who season, I might make one those. I also want to finish my K-9 build. However right now it is Master Chief that is on the work (kitchen) table. Pics coming tonight of the chest armor.

AdenS · Jan 30, 2013

Love the kids build! Blows my mind when I see a foam helmet. I never would have thought they could look that good.

Familyman · Feb 1, 2013

Thank you very much for the kind words, they are really uplifting.
Been a few days since I have done anything to this build. But here is what I have after 3 more hours. I am working slowely on this because I want my lines and seams to be as good as possible.