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Rag Link – Heroic_brando – Pictures

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:43:03 +0000

This is a CUSTOM MADE outfit of Link. When I say that I mean its not a part of Zelda canon (at least not yet[hey ya never know!]) Anyways, its not particularly based on any specific Link costume that already exists. I guess its best to say that its what I interpreted as to be a more “real” costume of Link had he ever really existed.

I call this version “Rag Link” as its supposed to pertain to the “from rags to riches” saying. Nobody starts and aventure with everything from the start. They start low and poor. Thats what this is.
If this were in an actual game then think of it as Link after a dungeon or two and acquiring a few items already, but still looks poor and lacking to a degree.

Original Link

http://www.cosplay.com/costume/306844/

Dark Link and Red Link – Zelda Costume Pictures

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:14:30 +0000

Ok finished the costume! Here’s me and my other friends (girlfriend Sheik and roomate as Dark Link).

Let me know what you think. I tried adding some burn marks and singes to the costume in various places but it was kinda rushed so I’d like to make those look better in the future.

Forcebewitya.

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How to Make a Master Sword – Zeus Tyrone Mendoza

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:14:37 +0000

How to Make a Master Sword

If you have been to a video-game convention, you know one of the quirks is people’s costume designs. One popular get-up is the costume of Link from the Legend of Zelda Series. The main signature of Link’s costume is the weapon he carries: the Master Sword. You won’t have to forge metal pieces together to make your own Master Sword. You will just need some foam and a dowel as materials to get started.

Instructions

Things You’ll Need:

1-inch-thick sheets of foam rubber
1-meter-long, 1/2-inch-diameter wooden dowel
Dremel tool
Hot-glue gun
Box cutter
Siccors
Paint

Cut two pieces of the blade from your 1-inch-thick foam rubber. Each piece should be two inches wide and 18 inches long, and each will serve as one side of the blade. Cut the edges into 45-degree angles with either the box cutter or scissors to give the illusion of sharpened sides. Make sure that the blade will taper off at one end to make the point of the sword.
With the box cutter, slice out from the 1-inch-thick foam the two half pieces of the sword’s wings. The wings should be no bigger than six inches wide and three inches long. Pin down the foam to keep it from sliding around, as this is the difficult and intricate section of the sword to cut out.
Drill grooves, no more than quarter of an inch deep, on the backs of each piece with the Dremel. The backs will serve as the inside of the sword where you will eventually place the meter-long wooden dowel. The wooden piece should be no thicker than half an inch in diameter.
Apply hot glue into the grooves of each piece of the blade and wings. Then place the dowel into the grooves and sandwich the pieces together, leaving no space between the blade and the wings. Leave two inches of space from the point of the blade. If you made a deep enough groove with the Dremel, you should not see any sign of the wooden dowel sticking up from the foam. Let the glue dry.
Cut out five, 1-inch rectangular, sheets from the foam. Apply glue to the back of these pieces and wrap them around the hilt of the wooden dowel, spacing them apart by half an inch. This will serve as the handle for your Master Sword. If there is not enough grip, add more pieces.
Apply one layer of white primer to the foam, and wait for it to dry. Then paint each piece with the appropriate colors — such as silver for the blade, blue and yellow for the wings and teal for the handle. Once the paint has dried, you have made your own Master Sword.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5024407_make-master-sword.html

How to Make a Link Costume – Courtney Method

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:08:51 +0000

The Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo’s most popular series of video games. The hero Link is on a constant quest to save the beautiful Princess Zelda. Thanks to the romantic and heroic nature of these characters, many enjoy dressing up as Link and Zelda for Halloween, conventions or other costumed events. Although Link’s costume seems incredibly intricate, it’s actually

Orginal Link : http://www.ehow.com/how_5949948_make-zelda-costume.html

Instructions

Things You’ll Need:

Green fabric
Fabric scissors
Iron
Thread
Sewing Machine
White long-sleeved T-shirt
White pants
Brown belt
Skin-colored felt
Cardboard
Yellow construction paper
Silver spray paint
Gold spray paint
Hot glue
Brown boots

Step1
Cut a piece of green fabric that is 24 inches wide and 6 yards long. Fold the fabric in half, bringing the shorter edges together to form the tunic.
Step 2

Cut a semi-circle out of the middle of the fold of the tunic to form the collar.

Step 3
Hem the collar and the edges of the tunic by folding them under 1/4 inch and ironing the fold in place. Fold the edges over 1/4 inch once again and sew the folds in place.
Step 4
Wear the tunic over a white, long-sleeved T-shirt and a pair of white pants. Secure it around the waist with a brown belt.
Step 5
Cut out two triangles of fabric that are each 24 inches long in the middle and 12 inches wide at the base. These will form the hat.
Step 6

Lay the two triangles directly on top of each other, with the right sides of the fabric together. Sew them together along the right and left sides, leaving the bottom open.

Step 7
Hem the bottom of the hat by folding it over 1/4 inch and ironing the fold in place. Fold the fabric 1/4 inch again and sew the folds into place. Turn the hat right side out.
Step 8
Cut out four triangles of skin-colored felt that are each 2 inches wide at the base and 2 inches tall in the middle. These will form the tips of the ears.
Step 9
Place two of the felt triangles on top of each other. Sew the left and right sides together, leaving the bottom open. Repeat this process with the other two felt triangles. Place these on top of your ears.
Step 10
Cut a piece of cardboard into the shape of a shield, with one point on the bottom and three points on top. The shield should be 24 inches tall and 18 inches wide.
Step 11
Spray-paint the shield silver. Cut out three triangles from yellow construction paper that are each 2 inches tall and 2 inches wide at the base. Glue these triangles to the middle of the shield in the Triforce shape. See the “Resources” section for an image of the Triforce.
Step 12
Cut out two rectangles of cardboard that are each 3 inches wide and 12 inches long. Glue the ends of these rectangles to the back of the shield as handles.
Step 13
Cut out a cardboard sword that is 30 inches long and 4 inches wide below the hilt. Spray-paint the hilt gold and the blade silver. Complete the outfit with a pair of brown boots

quite easy to re-create.

Bending Wood for Link Wooden Shield

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:43:37 +0000

First of all, I hate balsa wood. For crafts I always go with basswood, because it is readily available in many sizes/thicknesses and it is much stronger than balsa.

A trick I learned in one of my architecture classes for making models could apply to this. If I wanted a peice of wood to bend, it was a five step process:

1. I would soak it in water overnight.
2. Then bend it to shape while it was still wet.
3. Find a way to fix it in that shape (Attach it to something curved with rubber bands or something similar)
4. Put it back in the water for several hours.
5. Take it out and let it dry (While still attached to the other curved abject)

If you are making a life sized shield, hopefully you have a spare bathtub or something to use. Also it may need longer soaking times depending on size.]

1 Cut out your shield, and bend it over a shape with the curve you want.
2 Cover one side of the shield with 5min epoxy ($2.99)
3 Place another, thinner piece of wood, on the epoxy and clamp it down.
4 Let the epoxy dry, then remove the whole shield off the frame and trim the excess. It will stay in the curved shape, I’ve done it several times before with GREAT success. I once made a miniature surf board and tech deck using this method.

Balsa wood is so light and soft that you should just laminate a block as thick as you need to achieve the radius you wand and just carve it out. If you are handy with and have a good (Porter Cable) belt sander & some 80 grit paper you could be done in an hour.

Otherwise you need to build a form of the radius you need that you can clamp the wood to and laminate it that way. Start out with according to radius and size you may be able to use 1/4″ thick strips but may have to go thinner.

Cut all the strips you need for the first layer then cut same amount same width for second layer, rip one in half for starter then glue all surfaces that touch and glue them together, By starting with the ripped one you will gwt a halflap effect giving you more strength.

Cover form with wax paper so glue doesn’t bond to mold.

You can also soak strips in a pvc tube with water and faberic softner to bend but I doubt it necessary.

Twilight Link Wolf Costume – Video

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:39:54 +0000

Found this on youtube today. Definitely worth sharing!

Make a Link Costume!

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:05:55 +0000

introMake a Link Costume!
This instructable will show you how to make most of the components to a Link costume, from the Legend of Zelda. With what I had, this wound up being a hybrid between the Link from Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess. This will include the making of:

- Master Sword & Scabbard
- Hylian Shield
-Tunic, Hat, Leggings,& Undershirt (Altering)
- Navi
- Bracers, Padding, & Gloves (Altering)

I apologize in advance for the not so great step by step pictures. The webcam in my laptop is better than the camera in my cell phone, and I don’t have a point and shoot to use at the moment, my old one died, so excuse the crappy webcam quality. Thanks, and enjoy.

step 1Navi

For Navi, you will need:
-Styrofoam Ball (Whatever size you want..I wanted a really tiny one. c: )
-Blue Glitter
-Silver and/or blue glitter glue
-Glue (I used modge podge)
-Scrap Fabric, blue or translucent
-Thin Wire
-Glue Gun (and glue sticks for it..obviously)

Alright, Navi was pretty easy to do. I used a skewer and stuck it into the styrofoam ball less than a centimeter in. I then just submerged in it the modge podge, waited for enough to drip off, and rolled it around in the glitter. For the wings, I painted a section of scrap fabric with glitter glue and then sprinkled a little more of the blue glitter on that. While it was drying, I used the wire to get a shape for the wings. Once dry, I hot glued the wire wings to the fabric and cut them out (make sure to put fabric on both sides). Stick the ends of the wire (be sure to leave enough..one of mine was a little shirt and I had to remake it) into the styrofoam “body” and just hot glue them in place for a little extra reinforcement. To mount her, I found a stiff piece of wire (think stronger than a paper clip) and hot glued it into the scabbard, and stuck and glued the other end into her.

step 2Hylian Shield

For the Hylian Shield, you will need:
-2 Sheets of foam board (the stuff for science fair projects..)
-Craft Foam (I used FunFoam, which has a peel off backing and already has an adhesive on it)
-Paints: Blue, silver, red, gold, black, plus silver fabric paint.
-Modge Podge or Matte Medium
-Glue Gun
-Newspaper

I began by folding a sheet of newspaper in half and drawing half of the shape of the shield. I cut it out, traced the unfolded newspaper on a sheet of foam board, and cut that out. I really wanted to get the shield to curve, so I soaked it in water and tried to curve it into shape. It worked better than I expected. While that was drying, I cut out the shapes for the triforce and the fourth triangle at the bottom out of the leftover pieces of the same piece of foam board. I cut the crest and silver pieces out of funfoam. I painted the funfoam and crest pieces their respective colors: gold for the triforce, red for the crest, and silver for the pieces on top. I mixed a little black with the silver to make a darker silver to make the angular effect on them. The base of the shield was painted blue. I then cut another piece out of newspaper to represent the silver part of the shield. I cut it out and painted it silver. I then used some of the darker silver to dry bush on top of that so it appeared more like brushed metal. It’s not too visible in the picture, unfortunately. I glued everything in place, used dots of fabric paint to make the rivets, and then did a layer of modge podge over the whole thing once it was dry. I used a glue gun to attach pieces of fabric cable to allow the shield to have some sort of handle. I made a larger one for my arm to fit through, and another to hold on to. I also made a large one on top to fit over the hilt of the sword so I could wear it on my back as well.

Read the rest of this article at:

http://www.instructables.com/id/SV5IJ0RG1BBED1R/

Superw00t Link

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:24:42 +0000

Link Gove & Sleeve – Carson’s Method – Zelda Costumes

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:03:26 +0000

You will need-

-a brown piece of felt
-saftey pin

Step 1Starting Your Sleeve

To start your sleeve you take the end of the felt and make sure it covers the middle of your hand down to your elbow.

Step 2Wrapping

Now wrap the rest of the felt around your arm from your wrist to your elbow.

Step 3Finishing

To finish you put the safty pin on your sleeve to hold it together .Enjoy!

JP’s Method – Making Your Own Link Costume (Legend of Zelda)

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:57:16 +0000

Make Your Own Link Costume!

This will be a tutorial on making your very own Link costume from the Legend of Zelda game. This will assure your child gets cult nerd status on Halloween night as we learned when we went trick or treating. You will find out, the majority of the people have no clue what the costume is, but those that do will give your appreciative kudos.

This was all my son’s idea, and it took about six weekends, and some late nights but the end product came out nice. The sword and shield were made out of wood (I thankfully had access to a laser cutter but it could be replicated with a jig saw) and I will provide cad files and pdf’s of all the pieces as well as the laser settings for anyone who may have access to a laser cutter.

For the costume itself, I had a friend come by and show me how to do basic sewing, and now that I have made it, I will CAD a pattern and also upload several file formats for downloading. If you follow the link to flickr, you can see all the build images, and as I can update the tutorial I will: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42092399@N00/

Step 1Getting your materials and tools in order

Okay, so first things first, you are going to want to get your materials in order. I used basswood and some really thin plywood to build the sword and the shield. In hindsight, I think next time I would only use basswood. The plywood is a beast to cut, and bending is NOT fun.

Materials For The Build

1. Wood
Okay, so here is the supplier I recommend for procuring all your basswood needs: nationalbalsa . Eric and Tammy will set you up straight away. I have been using them for years and ALWAYS had prompt service. Tell them I send my love

2. Glue:
I use
Aleene’s Tacky Glue and 3M Super 77 . I have these on hand for other projects, and you can probably get away with just one good glue that works well with wood.

3. Paint:
I used a enamel spray paint. Red, Yellow, Silver, Blue, and a clear coat spray.

Tools For The Build

1. Cutting Device:
If you dont have a laser cutter or a friend that has one, fear not. I suggest printing out the templates I will upload and using a jig-saw, band-saw, or similar tool. In the end, even if you use a laser cutter, you will see that I filed and sanded the material so it looked a little more battle weary, so a looser tool will not make the end product any less cool.

2. Clamps:
You really cannot have enough clamps. Seriously. If you dont have enough, use this as an excuse to go buy as many as you can. Clamps were vital in this process.

3. Magnets:
This one may seem puzzling, but it makes more sense once we get further down the road. Short of it is, that when you get to gluing pieces of the shield, you will find that some of them are hard to get a clamp on, so it is handy to have a couple of these around.

4. Sanding Files:
These will come in handy when filing the millions of pieces that you will assemble. This part of the process is probably the most tedious and annoying, but in the end, if you put some love into it, your pieces will have that battle-worn look that we know LInk has earned.

5. Orbital Sander:
I have one of these, so that is what I used. Honestly, you could use any sander. This one seemed to work well.

6. Sandpaper and Sanding Block:
I used 220 grit mainly for these. DONT buy a sanding block. Just use a scrap piece of wood, spray some Super 77 on the paper and presto: a sanding block.

7. Xacto Knife:
I used a large and small one.

8. Scrap For Jig
You will need to make a jig to bend the shield (if you want to), and I used whatever scrap I had. This end up being a lot of castoff pieces of chipboard and a couple dowels, but you could easily use some plywood and cut the shape out with a bandsaw.

Alright! We are ready to look at the design!

step 2The Design

So, after some hard internet searching, I actually pulled up on amazon a sword and shield that someone was selling. So I used these as a precedent, although if you look hard enough at the finished product you will see that I made some changes.

So I got the images, brought them into AutoCAD and scaled them to the size that I wanted. At this point I traced both the sword and the shield. You can get the two images below and do the same, OR since I did the hard part you can jump ahead to where we start cutting and assembling.

If you decide to do it yourself, you really need to visualize the end product and start breaking the shield and sword down in your mind into its component layers.

Next we will see what that looks like.

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step 3Breaking Down the Components: The Shield

Okay, so if you chose to draw up the pieces, this is where you can check it against mine. I possibly made it harder than I needed to, but having built a ton of stuff like this, I really like to build up the process.

Okay so this is the shield. I made up a rough key to outline the main components. The colors are not indicative of the final product colors, but hopefully they will help show how the shield is broken down.

A: Triforce pieces – These were three triangular pieces cut out of 1/32″ basswood (painted yellow)
B: Shield edges – These give the shield a little depth, and were cut out of 1/16″ basswood (painted blue)
C: Head piece and buttons – These add more detail and were cut out of 1/16″ basswood (painted silver)
D: Shield base pieces – This is the base of the shield. Everything glues on top of this. It is made up of three pieces laminated together cut out of 1/8″ basswood (painted blue)
E: Bird pieces and basic sass – These parts make up the bird and the other general sass pieces on the shield cut out of 1/8″ basswood (painted silver and red)
F: Red Buttons – These are the “jewels” on the shield cut out of 1/8″ basswood (painted red)
G: Black Buttons – These are the three buttons at the edge of the shield cut out of 1/8″ basswood (painted silver)

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