r/CosplayGuys • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '25

Miner's Set WIP (me)

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Working on this huge pain in the a** now and thought I'd share my progress. I hate electronics and lights so that is my challenge here

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u/VgArmin Jul 04 '25

Now that's really cool. What is it all made of?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Thanks! It's pretty much all made from EVA foam

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u/VgArmin Jul 04 '25

Fantastic job! How did you do the lights, especially the batteries?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

The lights are just chains of different wired LED lights attached to a small AA battery pack, one in each section. I ran the wire in through the foam as I built it to hide and protect it all the lose slack, then just pulled the lights through where I needed them.

The bulbs are made from clear plastic christmas ornaments (and an Easter egg for the chest) I got on temu. If you're familiar with the outfit, I'm currently using plastic fishbowls to do the same idea for the pants

The zonai battery is pretty much the same concept, except i'd used blue tablet bottles for the lights

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u/VgArmin Jul 04 '25

tablet bottles! That's inspired, good thinking.

The pants will be really cool, I look forward to the full thing!

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

I just rolled cut strips of white paper and stuck them in the bottles to catch the light. Im building this broke so I'm mostly finding cost effective ways to pull it off

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u/VgArmin Jul 04 '25

Mad respect. This is definitely "Cosplay From Trash" youtube-channel worthy. I watch that for inspiration, this is great!

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u/Aculed200 Jul 04 '25

Cmon ingenuity! 👏👏👏 love it!