This year for Halloween my son wanted to dress up as a ring wraith from The Lord of the Rings. In order to make him stand out from say, Dementors or The Grim Reaper, I suggested he specifically go as The Witch King of Angmar. My wife has made some killer costumes for the kids in the past, but I really wanted to help out this time. I tracked down various cosplay templates and figured out how to both scale it down for a child and simplify parts of it so it would hold up to a night of trick-or-treating.
I don’t typically craft anything, but I’m really pleased with how well this turned out for an amateur costume job. I used cereal box cardboard for the gloves and hot-glued them (first time hot glue gun user—and no burns! I used a foil-covered drumstick in each finger to keep them from sticking to themselves!), and sturdier corrugated stuff for the helmet/crown. Everything was painted in two stages with silver metallic base and spattered “antique bronze” hammer finish paint. The underlying fabric is a super cheap Grim Reaper costume because it provided gloves and a see-through full face cover (and he gets a plastic scythe toy as a bonus). He loves it, and I’m super pumped about how it all turned out. Now it’s time to terrify people into filling up his candy bucket :-D