Latex Covered Foam Lekku Guide Page 2 - Making Tails
Latex Covered Foam Lekku Guide Page 3 - Covering Them in Latex
Latex Covered Foam Lekku Guide Page 4 - Custom Ear Pieces
I created a Twi'lek lekku and made ear pieces, and never shared them with you all. If you wrap a piece of fabric around your ears you don't need them, but if you buy a nice headpiece off of Etsy - you need them.
Twi'lek Pam sells them but I easily made mine our of craft foam and painted them to match. I took my original ones (flesh colored) and made them green for my Hera costume. I love how they turned out. I wanted to be a twi'lek jedi for a baseball game and was in a hurry to get it all done and submitted in time.
But now I need to make some more flesh colored ones to go with my fleshy lekku.
Note: original set wasn't mirrored - so they look wonky on my head. I needed to have rolled them opposite ways but didn't notice till they were done.
Here are the steps: So easy too.
Cut circles out of your craft foam scraps left over from lekku construction. Cut a big pie piece out of each one. They will look like pac-man.
They should mirror each other, not be identical. That way they look right on your head (just like your ears are)
You start by rolling up one end, and it should roll around the circle almost like a rose
I went over to my glue table and used glue to hold it all together. The most important part is not putting too much glue on bottom 1/2 inch and using enough glue on upper twist to hold it together. Hot glue was my choice.
Bottom will look somewhat like this.
You then need to seal them with spray glue - I use 3M-77, and let them cure for 72 hours.
While my second set is curing, note that they are opposite each other. You roll them in opposite ways so they look like mirror images of each other.
Now this is my first set, I made it a little less pointy in style but I like them both. I cut the one end of the pac-man longer and rolled them so they had center to them. I covered them in one thick layer of latex. And I was lazy and didn't second coat them.
But then I covered them in latex paint to make my hera lekku so they would match because I was desperate for a new fun costume for the baseball game.
I cut four slits into the base about 1/2 inch up.
This allows the base to flare open and let it lie flat.
And that allows it to be wedged in the hole of my headpiece from Etsy.
See, and it won't pop out because of the flaring base. Awesome!
Latex Covered Foam Lekku Guide Page 1 - Stand and Pattern
Latex Covered Foam Lekku Guide Page 2 - Making Tails
Latex Covered Foam Lekku Guide Page 3 - Covering Them in Latex
Latex Covered Foam Lekku Guide Page 4 - Custom Ear Pieces
