Making GIANT floating wings for my Lute Cosplay! 

I wish I had mechanical engineering skills to help, but hopefully someone can help you build a light weight, powered actuator so you can actually get a flapping motion.

Not questioning your running performances but the aerodynamic drag created by those wings would make it very hard to run a marathon.

Hey @MissTwisteddd you should get hold of me and have me show you my wing idea someday. Love your cosplays, take care.

The link is not working- Btw. I adore your cosplays!😍 My favs are all the once with the moving feather ears!🥳🤩 Mostly the owlchemist… so adorable and such a cool idea! (Especially the name idea!)🫶👏

​@@Azura_Foxyyou may need to copy-paste it into your browser!

oooof and honestly they weren't even that big!

@@MissTwisteddd Yeah, it was the combination of the wings *and* the harness that held them. When they sit down at the dinner you can see him wincing.

oh god, I feel so bad for him. propmakers should look at youtube tutorials

@@ThatDigitalDemon The movie was released ten years before Yotube existed.

@@brainflash1 ik ik but the point still stands

I gotta say as a cosplayer and dnd person, I'm not sure I could combine them cos I'm terrible at being 'casual' with my costumes, so they're always so bulky and full on that they're not very practical to sit and play dnd in!

Dirk.

A lot of dnd players cosplay their characters!

Other dirk. @@fakenayhn

That would be really cool. Like a bard that wants to infiltrate a place that's for minotaurs only and they don't want to use shape-shifting or illusion magic so they just start putting together a convincing costume and bluffs their way in.

Going into Bunnings (the big aussie hardware store) is always hilarious cos they see me buying pipes, planks of wood, door hinges etc. and always ask what I'm building and I always have the funniest answers "a giant pair of wings" "faun legs!" "Would you believe a comically oversized sword?"

@@MissTwistedddOH MY GOD as an Australian I know this exact feeling. My dad and I walk into Bunnings a lot to get PVC pipes, pipe connectors, wood etc and they’re like “what’re you doing with these?” “Oh, you know.. build my daughter a 12ft Harkonnen Cannon for her birthday…” xD

@@Xombic0780 hahaha love those moments! The staff are either delighted or confused or horrified!

​@@MissTwisteddd I do this at Lowe's hardware (US hardware store) when I'm working on a cosplay. Lots of plumbing supplies for tails of various sorts!

Ooh I'm definitely gonna make some even bigger ones next just you wait!

(and I really want to make some that move even more, maybe with some electronics or at least puppetry!

@@MissTwistedddOoh exciting! I can’t wait to see the results.

those also happen to be on the smaller side of what is estimated as a good size to get a human flying too

HI OMGGG​@@MissTwisteddd

Thank you! I really enjoy experimenting with a particular technique or material, as I'm sure you would have noticed, so I think I can see why even people who aren't usually into cosplay like it!

I had a feeling that was the case, but didn't want to test it out haha! It's amazing stuff! I wish I'd bought thicker stuff as the 1mm thickness is so see-through. I've got some 3mm foam for next time and can still use up the 1mm stuff for the smaller feathers!

​@@MissTwisteddd where do you get it from?

when I had it as a kid I ripped it into shreads and made a pompom

frrr the cosplays r stunning

Thank you so much! (also, I cannot at all sew a sock neatly haha!)

Yesss that's going to be amazing! For me I ended up covering them in the same fake scale-mail. But you could do detachable sleeves or even just some fancy shoulder decoration stuff! (I find decorating something easier than fully disguising it)

@@MissTwisteddd So I've been doing more thinking on this. I have some thicker packing foam that I'm going to cut into somewhat jagged, triangular shapes to use as the primaries, with the hope of them ending up looking somewhat like icicles. Then the thinner foam will be the secondaries, with actual feathers for the coverts. Along the top edge I'm going to run ice-crystal fairy lights, and iridescent garland to look like ice and frost. I bought a couple cathedral-length bridal veils on clearance at a hobby store - I'll use them for the base layer of the wings. I'll also use more of the garland wrapped around the straps to disguise them. I have black plastic tubes from garden stake lights that I can use instead of the PVC.

@@beckymurphy4714 sounds like it could have some amazing texture to it!

Cool

Some Crack head who fucked up already

Nope

HE BLEW HIS SHOT LIKE THE C*CKS IN HIS MOUTH

HE BLEW HIS SHOT LIKE THE 🐓S IN HIS MOUTH!

THIS DISCUSSION IS SENSELESS AND PETY

Thank you so much!

You're very welcome have you ever thought of doing any Resident Evil co-pays you would be gorgeously amazing at those to as Jill Valentine ADA Wong Shelley Berkin Ashley the President's daughter

I aaah... may have already bought some new foam for that exact reason and I'm planning another trip to the op shops for more fishing rods!

For..totally unrelated reasons would it be possible to make giant moving cat ears ? I just adore any creature or character with big animal ears​@@MissTwisteddd

Honestly I was thinking of keeping them in for exactly that- threading some string through it! Unsure what for yet though. But kite ribs is a great idea! Might be harder for me to find second hand though!

Oh that's awesome, thank you! I'm less worried about graphite too. Might try that next time!

@@MissTwisteddd yeah usually in the bottom section right above the handle it should tell you what it's made

Thank you so much! And yeah agree, especially from the back you can really see the shape of them!

That's what I was thinking!

@@paigesingleton5828 samee

Aaw that makes me so happy honestly! I was really self concious about my voice and accent for a while, but starting to like it now!

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Aaw well thank you! And totally understandable, cosplay is an expensive hobby! There are some waaay cheaper ways to do wings a little smaller as well, I've seen some amazing wings just with cardboard and paper!

Haha I wouldn't go that far, maybe not a genius but just very resourceful and determined. I appreciate it so much!

Thank you!

Thank you I appreciate it!

thank you heaps! It's a new material for me and it's got so much potential. I also just discovered it comes in different thicknesses so that'll help with durability and the problem of it being so translucent. I'm going to try the 3mm stuff instead of the 1mm stuff!

@MissTwisteddd wouldn't hurt to see what 2 slices of 1mm with something in between would look like especially if it was a pearlescent celephane. Don't think that would work for lute. Thinking more #ForScience! That stuff works great for diffusing LEDs!

Aaw well thank you muchly!

indeed absolutely spiffing

Yesss I'm doing Husk next, he's gonna have even bigger wings, hope yours turns out great!

Honestly tiktok really has gone downhill so I'm glad to be over here on RU-vid for now!

Thank you! I appreciate that so much!

Hmm the spine idea is interesting and definitely agree it would help it lift and move off the shoulders less! The chipboard is so light and strong enough as is, so I'm wondering what benefit the plastic cutting board would have over the chipboard? Though perhaps the cutting board being a little bit heavier might be good to stabilize it- the extra weight doesn't matter as much right at the centre. The bra idea is definitely interesting, in heavier wings I've made before I've attached a heavy-duty strap that sits just under my bust that I think would serve the same purpose- so can definitely agree with that as an idea! Personally I love the floppy feathers, it keeps it light, foam board I think would be too stiff and not 'flow' and float as these do! But I think that might just come down to personal taste. Foam board would be fantastic if you were doing wngs that articulate and fan in and out rather than stay outwards but float around. I think the polyester batting would also have the issue of adding additional weight and bulk, but I think if the flowing, floating aspect of your wings were less a priority and the shape and dimension was a higher priority, it woud work beautifully!

@@MissTwisteddd you are correct that all the extra support is because the wings are much larger and are based on designs by The Crooked Feather.

Sometimes you see the major studios costumes or wigs and they are not great so agreed 😂

Haha heck yeah there's so many winged superheroes this would work amazingly for too! Hope your Angel turns out well! (I've only seen like two episodes of Chainsaw man and really loved it!). I think that list sounds pretty good! Plastidip and a good contact adhesive (and a good respirator for using with both of these) will be good too for construction. In the video I complained about me 'wasting' plastidip on the wings instead of regular spray paint but actually I've found that regular spraypaint flakes off so easily that plastidip is actually a really good choice for either painting or priming.

Well thank you muchly fellow melbournite!

Haha sadly I'd have to charge thousands for a pair, not to mention shipping costs which would be huge for the size of them!

Honestly I'd love to spend like... a full year trying to recreate the orginal dress in every single detail, that would be competition-worthy!

@@MissTwisteddd Ah, I hope u kept it. It looks so cool and looks like the real deal!!

Well thank you very much! Great idea on the fiberglass cutting too. I think the wiper snipper chord would work perfectly! Great if you're going for more detailed feathers

For the unmasked version you posted a short of, of course

I will admit the one downside to constantly squeezing big complex projects into a single video is that I end up glossing over details or rushing the finished cosplay. So I want to find a happy medium in future- one video is either going to be one detailed concept (like wings, or legs, or a corset) OR one video can be a whole cosplay if it's a simple one!