Making Zendaya's Robot Armor in a WEEK (not my smartest decision but hey) 

My boyfriend came in when I had it paused at the comparison and said "I'm sorry, I'll leave you to it" 😂

My dog came in while I was watching and avoiding getting up for the day, and laid on my head. Not exactly the same, but single life... right?

My husband came in and said, "I love how she's always so smiley in her videos. She obviously enjoys doing these projects."

She is almost too happy. She could be high. She does look cool in the costume. Maybe better than the original.

@@aSpectreAppears😭 I think she really is just a smiley person

RIGHT! It looks so fricken good!!!

Two craft girlies (Rachel Maksy and Hazariel Costumes) doing two different Mugler garments in the same year, we are truly blessed 🥰

Serious! Rachel and Hazariel need to plan a fashion show with Nerdforge, Kamui Cosplay, and Prickly Alpaca where cosplayers replicate their favorite Mugler😁

Lets not forget the master of Mugler silhouettes, TheClosetHistorian!

@@Lisa_FlowersBianca has been making clothes for decades though, including 3 fashion schools

good to know

my design models teacher would pester me to the moon and back if I didn't add that metallic colours are notoriously finicky. you need to make sure the surface beneath it is *insanely* smooth and free of both dust and fingerprints to achieve a realistic metal finish. we do that on our presentation models by sanding it to oblivion, scraping on a super thing layer of plastic padding, wet sanding that layer to baby's-butt smooth perfection, then spraying on a solid layer or three of spray putty(?) and wet sanding that to death. and then we pray to all designer gods whilst spraying it with three layers of a *high quality* base coat, followed by just enough of the metallic paint that the surface beads start to melt together but not quite (they need to melt together slowly as the paint settles and dries, or else you end up with drips and that's a tragedy after so much work). if we pray hard enough and work hard enough we'll get lucky and trick our head professor into thinking it's truly metal. otherwise it'll still look really good after this process, *if* the base coat was good enough. we often seem to stumble on that base coat as the ones sold in the nearby stores are not quite good enough for metals.

@@matildas3177, sure but IIRC the Adam Savage comment was implying you'd notice any of surface scuffs/unevenness problems on the gloss surface BEFORE adding the chrome, so all things being equal a high gloss black base coat will be better than OTHER base coats (provided the paints are compatible because different brands' solvents can interact and absolutely RUIN itself by crinkling and crackling)

If you know Adam Savage then you know the gloss black is the second-to-last step in a complex process involving hours of smoothing, filling, sanding, cleaning, more sanding, filling again, and more cleaning and then sanding, and then...

With scale modeling, gloss black is usually the move too. Metallic paints are made by having a super fine reflective powder like mica or aluminum suspended in a tinted medium for whatever color you want, yellow for gold etc. By its nature it's a transparent paint, so the gloss under coat causes more reflecting and a brighter shine. But yes, if you were pouring days or weeks into this, you'd probably use something like bondo and filler wet sanding to get it as smooth as possible. Adam likes Moltow Chrome in the airbrush. Gives a brilliant shine.

I saw a sticker the other day that showed a seam ripper and said, “well, shit”. 🤣🤣

Same

Luckily since said tushy was not as impractically unprotected as in Zendaya’s armour, she made it through 😤✊

I have gotten away with winging it way too many times...it's a real problem!

Same. My therapist basically gave me permission to continue procrastinating for this very reason. She said, well, if it works for you, why not keep doing it? My partner was like, “shouldn’t she NOT be cosigning this bs? shouldn’t she help you fix it instead?!”😭 I just like the thrill of potentially life-ruining disaster, I guess!

There's actually a Torchwood (Doctor Who companion show) episode that has a cyberman mid-transition... And it literally looks almost identical to this.

Yeah it's basically identical to the cyberwoman lol

​@olgapikul3328 that's what I was about to say. Zendaya was just the cyberwoman. Tragic, lol

"Cyberwoman/Ianto's girlfriend!!!" Was literally my only thought this video. I'm glad I'm not the only one

@@astradriscoll6695 it was all i could think of when i saw the thumbnail lmao

That's how the design houses make their profits - same design budget but multo platinum prices.

not really.... its the buying of fabric likely produced by slave labor at worst and disenfranchised laborers at best. @@nzlemming

@@justinwilliams7290I said "design budget" not manufacturing. Not disputing the slave labour, by the way, but Rachel is buying fabric too. Can you state with certainty that it wasn't produced by the same slave labour that the design houses use?

Certainly not. In fact, its almost guaranteed that the cheap materials that Rachel bought are likely impacted by slavery in some way. We're all complicit. They use the best materials but they do get it as cheap as possible, but its due to their intentional and knowing acquisition of materials that are likely produced by slaves. The only exception to this may be the embroidery used by the couture houses. Its French. Cheaper and RTW brands outsource to India where it may not be slavery but it sure is unethical and sleezy@@nzlemming

To be fair it's not a "Zendaya piece", Its the original archive couture piece from the 90s, there is only one of these and its been worn countless times by major celebrities and every time it's been adjusted and fitted different to suit the new models body which speaks to the quality of the materials, really impressive piece of costuming,. The fact her stylist got THE Mugler suit for her to try on is a feat in itself.

Yes!! I would love this too!! I also try to go back and take a look at the details and try to zoom in a bit!

omg yes its perfectly imperfect

I thought of C3PO while she was making this 😂

Saying that, this armor absolutely needs to be Adam Savaged! All the weathering!

so, david lynch's dune?

@@blueeyesandchubbythighs3049 I'm pretty sure C3PO, and the design for this outfit, was based on the 1927 film Metropolis, which had the first depiction of a robot in film (a female robot!)

I looked at my roommate and said "we need that on a T-shirt" 😁

Me too it's crazy but I've learned I can lol🎉

Me too! I just look at things and go "eh, how hard can it be"😂

Same, I feel tempted to try armor out.

I too have crafters/hobby audacity.

I'm deeply disappointed how many people didn't recognize the Metropolis inspiration. 😢

My god it's Metropolis! I should have recognized that! I had to study it this year for school, what a cool reference

Which would be weirder, covering wife in cellophane, or duct tape?

@@ivyarianrhod Well, several movies would suggest that cellophane without duct tape equals murder, so.... 😬😂

@@TheMagnoliaWitch Ah, but in older movies like Fried Green Tomatoes, the wife covering Herself in cellophane is Segxy!😂🤣🤣

I mean, and if they watch her videos, now they do know anyways....

I would so dig going to that museum!! It would be awesome!!

The amount of times I say, "Words are hard!" is entirely too much.

We really did.

I turn the paper upside down AND tape the edges to the floor. Rolled paper curling is an abomination.

yeah, anyone who's into sewing must have heard of Mugler, right? Although, ironically, it is a name of Germanic origin (from Alsace - that region that cannot decide which country it belongs to) and the English pronunciation Moog-ler is quite close to the proper German way of saying it, whereas the French use the u from _tu_ and pronounce the -er ending as in l'enfer.

There are so many designs keft to channel crafters audacity 😍